leave for "sick"

My company allows 5 days' for sick leave. 2011 is nearly over, and I have just spent used one of them, so I called for a sick leave today to having supper with a female friend. 

She is my classmate's friend. When she was planning to come to Peking, her friend---my classmate---called me.  She said, "My friend is going to Peking. Take care of her. By the way, she is single." Sounds good, but I don't know what I feel.

When I saw her for the first time, I feel nothing, totally nothing. I made myself gentle as a man can be, because she's my classmate, a good friend's friend, and I succeed obviously. I feel sorry of it deeply.

She's a very nice girl, and does everything properly. She loves her work, loves home her family, but yet we have different opinions about the world. I love my work and love my family with in a very different way. I think work is a part of life. She thinks work is work, life is life, they could never be the same thing. never, She wants to settle down the work in several years and then the life or home. This is I could never understand, I now love my work just as much as so does the my life, so why would I abandon one of them? She now keeping calling me with this or that reason as "just a friend". I hope she really just sees me as a just friend. 

I heard, if a woman paid for your dinner bill, then you've got no chance to be her boyfriend. I hope it's true.

I guess you want to find a girlfriend who loves work just as much as you do?  That is interesting, a sign of how our relationships are changing in the modern world, don't you think?

Your story is well organized.  I just had one sentence where I wasn't sure about your meaning and I highlighted it in blue.  I think you mean to say that your friend wants to quit her work eventually, settle down, and establish a family.  Am I right?  The phrase "settle down" isn't really used with the nount "work".  It's somewhat hard to define too.  I think it generally means the point where people focus more on having a stable home and raising children instead of realizing career ambitions, travelling, etc.