TL;DR- Met a girl I knew from HS, things go great, we meet up a few times, things progress well, go on a few dates that I knew she thoroughly enjoyed and I nailed on my part pretty well. After the last date that went the best, she started acting weird and not being as social. Slow progress has been made to restore the "relationship" or whatever you call it, but I'm not quite sure what to do now. She shows signs she's into me, but not quite enough to reassure me. I feel like this is some "Chase" bullshit to get me to want her more. I just want to regain the upper hand because I enjoy being around this girl and I'm quite picky as to which girls I associate with. I can't handle the jumping from plate to plate. Not enough time/money/ emotional investment/ not big enough social circle so the girls aren't coming in at a high enough pace. (Working on it)

I met this girl I liked in high school at the gym that I hadn't talked to since my junior year. I actually spoke to her a couple times randomly through twitter DMs, but this was the first time i had seen her since graduation basically. We agree to meet for coffee later in the week, we do. Things go great and we talk for hours. We agree to get breakfast the next morning, we do and things go great there as well, we talk for hours. She says "I really like hanging out with you." So we agree to meet again. She's relatively busy so she can only see me a couple times a week as her schedule allows. We text/snap each other a really nice pace throughout this time. Not too frequent but not too sporadically.

{To give a background on this girl, she's got a great thin body, hot face, "chill" personality, bad texter, works quite a bit. She has some issues mentally in a way, nothing terrible, but whatever. Her ex essentially went Dark Triad on her big time and it fucked her up, but he's been long gone (Yeah I know you're all thinking there's a huge red flag! You will probably think that a lot as you read through this). Either way i've essentially been in monk mode since my last LTR broke up with me 6 months ago. Work, eat right, lift hard, and take care of my looks/body. So this was a very convenient scenario for me and I get along great with her great just being myself.}

We then agree to get breakfast and go to a record store where they have a bunch of cool stuff also as we have a similar taste in music. This gives me a chance to drive her around playing cool music in my car and what not which she loved or liked it because I like it, whichever. We do that for a good 4 hours or so between breakfast and driving there. I drop her off at her place. We start texting again and agree to meet up later since we don't have much to do. I go to the gym, get a nice pump and then take her to a sushi place. We hang out do some pretty random things, go on long walks in our community just talking and whatnot. I drop her back off at her place at 2 AM, i hug her, and we start to make out for another 30 mins or so.

She invites me to her place in the middle of the week around 10:30 so we watch netflix, cuddle, and make out on her patio outside. So everything's still going great you know? Really great. I run into her at the gym a couple times this week, I take her out to a pretty nice restaurant, not outrageous, but considered nice. We do that and it goes well as everything had been going so far. Driving home she gives me the eyes and we start making out like crazy at a stop light that was taking forever. I get her to my place we hook up again things get a little physical, no sex, but still things go great. She leaves a tad early because she had work at the crack of dawn. So all in all awesome night followed by text saying that was amazing blah blah.

That following week she gets sick but starts being a horrible texter/ etc. The whole week goes like this but she asked if I wanted to go to a movie that weekend. I agree, the day comes, she's being a shitty texter yet again, tells me last minute she cant go. She had a good reason that was validated, but telling me last minute was awful. No communication really until the next day after I asked her whats up and why is she acting so weird all of a sudden? She had been having issues at home with her parents fighting or whatever and she apologized.

We talk not quite in the same way but we talk so that's good. I invite her to dinner to a place i had a voucher at, she agreed, the next day she didnt text/talk to me at all. I asked in the afternoon if she could go, no reply, i call it rings, no reply. Call again her phone is off. I text her saying, "not cool," then ghost her for 2-3 days. I text her first (because I'm an idiot) but then things go somewhat better than they were, but not ideal. She gets drunk at home with her sister one night and starts texting me as I ghost her most of the weekend/text slow but more flirty and quicker than usual. She makes a snap of kissing a teddy bear and I reply, "that should be me." She replies, "it should." We talk more and things seem to be rolling in a better direction than the past two weeks. She said she missed me with the crying emoji and I said, "then see me. I'll believe that when i'm (insert somewhat cringeworthy text that i don't want to repeat here) she replies, "that gave me butterflies."

I feel like I left some minor details here and there, but I just wanted to give a good summary of what happened. Not my best writing either, just wanted to get it out there.

This happened in a span of 6 weeks or so and this would be the middle of the 6th week.

Week 1- met at gym/exchanged numbers/brief texting throughout week

Week 2- meet for coffee/get breakfast next day.

Week 3- get breakfast/go to record store/ get sushi/ have spontaneously fun night.

Week 4- go on nice date that went really well.

Week 5- starts acting up

Week 6- things are better but kind of in limbo.

So that's basically where I am now. We've been hardly talking the past two days, but she has me kind of fucked up because I like being around her. How do I regain the upper hand? What are some tips that would help? Ghost her completely, or should I keep it chill and be patient while doing my own thing to see what she does? Any advice is appreciated. Have any questions/ need more details, I'll fill you in.