Good Start
This guy has a unique way of flipping the situation. He must have been eager to text her and didn’t want to wait and see if she would make the first move. Maybe he thinks it’s embarrassing to be the one starting a conversation and with the right wording can turn it around for him.
Trying to play it cool was the wrong move and she sees right through it when he says he is surprised to receive her text. She doesn’t seem to go along with it though.