There is a chick in my grad school program at a local university that I’m interested in. We’ve been communicating on/off since December. I had a get together at one of the local pubs here and I invited some people from class including her. We talked and I got to know her pretty well. During my Christmas break, she reached out to me via text and asked me how I was and then sent me follow-up questions like what are my pet peeves/where I see myself after I relocate once I am done/how close am I with my family. Since then, we’ve gone out several times: parks and restaurants. I escalated but still wussied out on our 2nd time going out. Kissed her on the cheek and she reciprocated with the same (sounds childish, I know).

The third time we went out, a hr before meeting up, she sent me a text basically saying, I hope you know we are just going out as friends. To which I replied, “That’s fine but I hope that you know that I am attracted to you. We can go out and see how it plays out or just remain friends/classmates.” She replied, no, let’s go out and just so you know we can be friends outside of class.” Since then, we’ve grabbed drinks and talked about random shit.

Basically, went out, had some good conversations; disagreed a lot about stuff but in a respectable way. After leaving the restaurant, she went straight to her car making it hard for me to kiss her. She messaged me 30 minutes or so after saying, “Despite us disagreeing on a lot of things, I had a great time talking to you.”

In passing, she’d make random comments to me like I see youre not eating too well when I didn’t finish my food one day and then she begin to ask me about a hicky I had on my neck when I came to class.

I even invited her over to my place to smoke some hookah to which she asked if I had invited any other people over.

Basically, I’m interested in this chick but still not sure if she has friendzoned me. We text a bit from time to time but I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve started developing feelings. I kinda fucked myself up here and was trying to avoid this whole thing from the get go when I told this chick we should just remain classmates (acquaintances).

The whole friendship thing isn’t gonna work since I reached this breaking point ie. Developed feelings. What’s the best course of action? I see this chick everyday, btw.