tl;dr

Met HB7 at music festival, initiated texting, teased her, got a good reaction. She initiates texting over the weekend and next several days. I invite her out twice, but she is busy both times. My default reaction to this was a soft-next. Am I reading this right?

Body: I'm getting leaps-and-bounds improvement on my approaches and opens, pulling plenty of numbers, but I am still very shaky in escalation, holding frame and haven't had alot of opportunities to even try to close.

Lets call this girl Sally. Sally seems cool, gave me some covert signals and I cruised back around her towards the end of the festival, got her to follow me around, got her digits, and ended up ditching her after the party let out (she didn't want to follow me into the moshpits at the final set so I left her behind).

Couple days later I txt her number, say hey who's this, and we chat it up. I tease her and get the ball rolling, she seems to be enjoying it, and I ask her to come out to another event I was attending the following weekend. I end up asking her twice (mistake I know) before she replies that she is busy doing something else.

But then, over that weekend, she texts and initiates back. Asks what I'm up to, what's the event all about, I send her a pic or two of my surroundings to show how fun it is. She invites me to Snapchat her some more pics but I decline (don't use Snapchat, didn't want to sign up because she asked me to, and I feel like I take horrible pictures anyways). Still teasing and gaming throughout, again she seems responsive.

Towards the end of that weekend she asks me am I having fun, am I behaving myself. I wait that night and most of the next day to respond (what's your definition of behaving lol), then I ask her out again with this line: "Pick out a nice dress and be ready around 8 tomorrow, I've got a surprise for you."

She waits about half an hour to reply, says she digs the spontaneity but already has plans to attend some youth-group church party. What was I going to since she apparently can't attend?

Now, at this point, I was pretty out of steam asking her to come out. I don't want to keep texting her and feeding that validation machine, I want her to come and hang out. I didn't have anything good to say so I just ignored her reply (is this a soft next?)

That's about the jist of it. I haven't texted her since then (about 48 hrs), she hasn't texted me. Should I send her some random hey wassup here in another day or two, or just wait to see if she txts back and move on if she chooses not to?