So me and this girl have known each other for awhile and been good friends, but besides hooking up drunk at the club a few times nothing has really happened outside that. We both know that we find each other attractive, have a lot of common interests and similar perspectives, but things never really lined up for me to ever make a move in HS due to timing being bad in terms of relationships. We went off to college, don't talk to her much she texts me she misses me once in a blue moon whatever. We're both back home from break now and been talking a bit and then I went full retard beta. I was giving her a lot of attention/did bs cheesey hollywood shit she would like (buy her flowers/got her a book she really liked w/ a cute note) and have now obviously realized my mistake. All of this eventually lead to us eventually having a conversation where she said she misses me and I mean the world to her and she loves me but she doesn't want a relationship right now. I said I don't want a relationship i just want to spend time with her because I genuinely care about her a lot (true but L) and then she said she wants to see me.She said she's not busy next weekend so let's do something then, I say ok I'll text u around then.

I do want to see this girl and I do care about her more than most people in my life but I do not want to become her stepping stone. I don't really have one-itis with her and I am talking to like 5 other girls but she's always the one I have looked back on and thought "what if". What do I do