TL;DR: had my 2nd date with a girl I met on school and now I need tips on how to actually proceed. Im brand new to actually dating girls after building attraction when first meeting them and how no idea how to behave and what to do now.

Disclaimer: im aware that you should not ask for a spesific girl/situation in this sub but my goal on this post is to have a general discussion on dating and get better at this. I will get into what happened on the date im about to talk about so you guys can see my strategies and comment on them. So I hope the mods dont delete this.

Im starting to see results at nights out and I feel im getting better, which im happy about. However, usually after flirting with a girl that night/kissing and or getting her number, it's not so often actually I met them again on dates. Especially not several dates. So im pretty much brand new to dating and need your tips and experiences on this. This sub focuses mostly on how to attract girls and hook up and that's okay, but I have met a girl I want to try and keep for a little longer time now.

We had our 2nd date on thursday. I know this girl from school, and not a party or something where alcohol has been involved. She is a friend of a friend and I found her interesting and basically just got her number and told her we had to grab a cofee.

The 2nd date went okay, but I did not manage to flirt and escalate as much as I did on the first and the mood and chemistry also felt a lot better on the first. After a while it was a bit boring to just sit across each other in the cafee (it was raining outside). Sometimes i felt like this was pretty much just the exact same date over again and didn't feel there was not that much else to talk about. It became a bit silent a few times but I did not worry about it and also gave her the chance to be the one to talk. We still had a great time and were there a few hours. We had some great and emotional conversations/her opening up about a serious family matter that we also talked about last time.

We did not kiss at the first date, but I kissed her on this one when I left. It was a bit akward but worked. At this point everything went fairly okay and I should say goodbye and leave but instead I was saying some bullshit we talked about earlier and lean in and start kissing her on the cheeck multiple times repetetively while making weird sounds like you do with fucking babies. She laughed but I could see she thought it was very akward. But I choose to think positive and that this dont matter that much as she has seemed very interested all along. It's strange how you suddenly just get the urge to do super weird shit when you are a bit nervous... Also I have not talked with her after this date.

The thing is I have no idea what to do now. Dating girls is brand new to me. Should I be the one to set up another date the coming week? What? Another coffee would be really boring, at least for me. Is it to early to invite her to my house? (We are both 18). She lives alone so her apartment is the ideal thing I guess but I believe I should be the one to invite her, and not try to imply that we should do something at her place.

Thanks for inputs :)