The plan
After chatting online for a few days, Dan thought that the time was right to ask Wendy if she wanted to meet in person. But he didn’t want to scare her and ask if she wanted to meet one on one, but maybe it would be better if it was in a group setting. So he thought that he would organize a party.
The plan behind the party was that he would invite her casually and she would show up, they would speak and everything would go well hopefully. Dan played it off as though he went to a lot of parties, but in reality, he was going to plan this event just for her, without her knowing.