Met someone right before school... I really like her.

[masaki1085]

Actually, I didn't just meet this girl. I had worked with her a couple years ago at my part-time job, and we caught up at a party abotu 2 1/2 weeks ago, and hit it off it seems. Many of my friends commented that she really seemed into me (and was excited that I was coming to the party prior to my arrival).

 

I was able to get her number, and I was able to hang out with her once--last week--right before we had to go back to school. We went out for a drink and we ended up talking and hanging out for about 2 1/2 hours. I had a really good time, as did she. We exchanged AIM information before parting ways.

 

We both go to different schools about one hour of each other. I have talked to her on AIM a couple times, and she appears to enjoy chatting with me, but I really don't want to scare her away or anything... it's usually I that initiates the conversation.

 

We are both back in our hometown later this month, and I asked her if she wanted to hang out with me, and she said she would keep that night open "in case our paths should cross."

 

I really like this girl, and I really would like to get to know her better. The whole long-distance college thing really puts a damper in things. She seems interested in that I want to hang out with her, and it seems we have quite a bit in common.

 

So what should I do? Should I wait until the end of the semester (we both graduate at the end)? Should I at least tell her that I am interested in her and that I want to get to know her better (like, perhaps when we are hanging out at home in a couple weeks if it goes well)? Any advice?

[EIN]

one hour apart between two schools do not seem like a long-distance relationship. If you're both willing to try, you'll both see it through. Let's see??? should you wait? and come end of year, she's with some other guy and you'll say to yourself, damn, I shouldve clicked with her when I had the chance but the thought of an hour away from her was a hinderance. Hope my sarcasm helped. GO FOR IT.

[masaki1085]

I started this thread a few weeks ago and I wanted to provide an update on what's happening.

 

I have been talking to this girl a lot since the beginning of school. We are at separate schools, but we have talked just about every night on AIM, usually about random things--getting to know each other type stuff. It started out with me usually IMing her, but pretty often now she is IMing me first.

 

I really have not indicated flat-out that I am interested in her yet, but I usually do quite a bit of flirting online, which she seems receptive to. I think in the way I talk to her, it might be obvious that I think something highly of her. And the fact that she has not backed off wanting to talk to me for the past couple weeks shows that, at the very least, she enjoys talking to me and is not sick of me. She asks my advice/opinion often on things like her story-writing and her studying, and likes to talk about pretty random inconsequential things to make conversation (but I do not want that to sound like a negative).

 

We both happen to be in town this upcoming weekend, and we have made plans to hang out in real life. We are going out for drinks and then watching "The Princess Bride;" she wants to show me the movie because I haven't seen it. Anyways, I was thinking of telling her at some point in the evening that I am interested in getting to know her in a "more-than-friends" kind of way. I feel that since I am interested in getting to know her on that level anyway (even though, I do value the friendship we've seem to achieve over the past few weeks), I probably should not BS my way around the subject. Is this a good idea? Any thoughts as to how I should approach this? Should I be so forthright?

 

I mean, I painted a pretty positive picture up above, but I have no idea how she might think, especially given the fact that the only way we really know each other other than hanging out two times before school is AIM. I suppose that's normal jitters, right?