I've been a strong texter for a while. But the other night this girl said she was too tired to text and was in bed, so I called her. We talked for 45 minutes and it went by so fast. I was nervous about calling her because of the bad experiences I had (awkward silences) in high school. I ended the conversation on a high note, and now our relationship has escalated so much higher than if we would have kept texting. The comfort level is up there.

tl;dr: After number closing I'm going to start setting up the phone conversation (preferably before they go to sleep) and then using text to set up a meeting.