Been "friends" with this girl since summer. We go to school in different places, and are currently both back home on break.

A few days before she got back, she messages me letting me know the date of her flight and saying she'd love to get coffee and hangout over break.

I agreed, and a week or so later, we met for coffee. Random note: The coffee shop is 5 minutes from my father's house, and about 30 minutes from her parents house and she was totally fine with making this trip.

We ended up sitting in the shop for like an hour just talking and stuff which was mostly just laughter from shooting the shit, till she got a call from her mom and when she hung up, I told her I had to be somewhere, and dipped out.

An hour later she sends me a text saying "was good seeing you today, missed you so much, I'll see you on Sunday" (we are both Christians and had agreed to meetup at church that weekend).

To be totally clear, I haven't had sex with this girl because she's genuinely very religious and has done next to nothing sexually because of that. Haven't kissed her either(cuz I was being a pussy tbh). Hugged a million times, picked her up and threw her in the water a bunch of times (in the summer) playfully pushed, tickled, teased her nonstop etc. Anyways..

This is where shit gets a bit weird. When Sunday arrived, it's Christmas Eve. And for the only time of the year, the girl has her whole family at the church with her. After service is done, me and her are hanging out, and she suddenly says (paraphrasing) "hey you haven't met my parents yet, come on" and then grabs my hand and leads me towards the entrance where her family is at.

I then am introduced to her dad (ex Marine) who gives me this look that was unmistakable. Small chance I'm wrong but he was sizing me up IMO. We shake hands, then I meet her mom, and they end up asking me if I can take a picture of the family. I oblige, and then makeup an excuse to leave to which the girl replies "Ohh what you're leaving!?".

I bullshit my way out saying "Gotta drop my friend to the airport" then give her a hug and leave.

Went slightly beta I think an hour later, I texted her saying "sorry I couldn't kick it with you longer, we'll do something later in the week!"

She instantly replied saying "no worries, sounds good!"

Then next day, Christmas she reached out with a sort of personal Merry Christmas message that isn't worth sharing the details of, but just important to note she continued initiating.

That's all the story of the last week or so. Pretty much it's like this. It's break right now for another week. I am attracted to her, I think there's a decent chance she's attracted to me. She is insanely nice and compassionate, and has a good amount of male friends, so I could be wrong and in the friend zone though.

I know that not hard escalating puts me in a precarious position here where I may have been placed in the box of a friend. That was my mistake, and I gotta own up to that.

Do you think I should become more aggressive in terms of escalating and try to milk this before break is over? Based on what I've shared, what do you make of the situation?

If you think I'm totally in the friend zone, please rip me apart and don't hold back for being an idiot, so I can learn and be better next time.