Context:
I’m a 16 (almost 17) yo girl, and I like another girl that I met in a school club camp. We’re not from the USA but if we were she’d be a freshman while I’d be a junior, so just thinking about being in a relationship with her makes me feel a bit weird, although the age gap is just one year and a half.
I get close to her every time I can. We have a lot of stuff in common (very similar music tastes, we like the same movies and series, and we have a shared love for musicals). The problem is that I can’t read signs, she like some of my ig stories, and she’s really open about herself when we talk irl, we even had ice cream together not so long ago (I had the courage of asking her to, surprisingly), but when we are texting I find her distant (although I know it might be because she feels more comfortable talking in person (she told me that)), and when I asked for her number, she saved herself in my phone using her full name, with even her last name, that felt really cold tbh.
I feel like this is going too slow, although I know it’s not since it’s been a bit more than a month since I met her. I want to tell her that I like her, but my friends think it is not a good idea, that I should keep on talking to her.
I’ve never been in a relationship before and never actually felt like being in one. I’d been struggling with low self-esteem, shyness, and lack of confidence. Lately, those problems that held me back seem to be vanishing away, and I’d really like to be in a relationship before I graduate from school, so I think this is a perfect chance for me to start dating.
I fear I might be acting like a creep to her and scaring her, but at the same time I wanna get closer and closer to her everyday, I’m not quite sure on how to catch her eye. So any advice is totally welcome.
Thank y’all.