I am 20 years old and in college. I am a very shy person and have not had much experience with dating. Anyways, I met this girl who is new to the school in one of my classes about a month ago. She approached me after class and started to talk to me. We talked for maybe 20 minutes and since then we have talked almost everytime we see each other. One thing i noticed is that she will walk right up to me and stand next to me, but she always leaves it up to me to start the conversation. I have tried to read her body language, but it has just confused me even more! She always smiles at me (but she smiles at everyone) and she holds eye contact the entire time we talk (which most people do anyways). She seems to send mixed signals like when we were talking one time and she exposed her wrist and palm towards me, which is supposed to be a sign of attraction i guess, but then covered up her neck with her other hand (I thought women expose their neck when interested in a guy?). Anyways, I got up the courage to ask her to lunch one day (it had to be lunch because she commutes a long distance and leaves by about 1:00 everyday) and she said, “yes that sounds fine.” We set the lunch for 12:15. After class she hinted that she had a lot of work to get done for class so I suggested we reschedule, but she insisted on keeping the lunch plans. 12:00 roles around and I get a call from her saying that she has to cancel because she has administrative things to take care of and that maybe we can try again some other time (though she offers no alternative date). I played it cool and said that it was fine, but I kind of ignored her for the next couple of days because i figured she blew me off. We got back into the old routine of talking to each other pretty often, but things just do not feel the same. Our conversations have started to have awkward silences (though she sometimes puts effort in to keep it going) and she just doesn’t seem as happy to see me anymore. How do I proceed from here? Does she seem interested? Do I ask her out again? Was I in the friend zone the entire time?
