I'm a 22 y.o virgin and I matched with a really cute girl on Tinder who's showing signs that she might be DTF.

We went on a first date and it went well. I did not even attempt to k-close or bring her back to my place. It was too hard logistically (things didn't go as I had planned) and I'm not experienced enough to pull off something like that.

The next day we had the following text conversation

Me: Hey, cool hanging out with you yesterday. Let's go climbing this week. Afterwards we can watch a movie at one of our places

Her (2 hours later): Yeah climbing sounds fun! What day?

Me (5 hours later): Wednesday 6:30pm

Her (10min later): I can't that day, I won tickets to a show at the [place] for that night. Would you like to go to drumline?

Me: What's drumline?

Her: blah blah blah

Me: Haha I’m always down for something new

Her: Ok, the show starts at 7:30, so want to meet at 7?

Me: Well hold on, let me see if I can get tickets first. Which seat do you have? Or are you saying you have extra tickets?

Her: No I already have your ticket. I won two haha

Me: Gotcha, sounds good then


Here are my questions:

1) How could I have improved my texts above?

2) What are some kino options when watching a show together? I'm thinking we could hold hands but I can't see how to escalate from there other than inviting her to my place afterwards

3) When inviting her to my place after the show (I live about a 5min walk from the place, I don't know where she lives other than it's also within walking distance), what excuse can I use for plausible deniability? Should I invite her for drinks even though its a Wednesday night? Or a movie?

4) At what point should I go for the first kiss? Before the show starts? After the show? When I bring her back to my place? On TRP I have heard arguments for both attempting the first kiss before and after bringing the girl back to your place