How do I act on signs of attraction?

[karasus]

Ok, there is a girl in my class who is super hot, perfect body/big eyes/small but full lips/wavy black hair/ Smooth tanned(She is indian) skin/ Slightly shorter than me around 172-173 cm (I am 178). We have been in the same class for about two months now but I was chasing somebody else so I wasn't really interested in her. However that failed, and I have been looking around, etc.

Now, I think she is showing signs of attraction. I used to sit quite far away from her, however last week I decided to sit at the center of the round table, directly opposite of professor. I took this seat because it allowed me to pretty much see everything that is going on in the class, and I would make my presence known to everybody. At this point she was sitting two seats away from me. While I was sitting there I managed to make eye contact with her and hold her gaze for two to three seconds before we broke off and I refocused on the professors' lecture (I am a straight A student in that class and plan to keep it that way). Then for the rest of the class I could catch her constantly turning her head in my general direction, could not be sure that she was looking at me though cause I was not paying attention to her.

End of class I chat her up, and talk about how our professor is a crazy witch. Kind of light and short but somewhat funny conversation.

Next, class we meet she sits right next to me. I start talking to her, smalltalk that made her smile/laugh a bit, nothing heavy. Then during the lecture we accidentally bumped our feet twice. End of class I didn't talk to her because I had to talk to the professor about some department event that I have to organise since I am the undergraduate French department representative in our Arts and Sciences council.

Third class, I come in ask if people in my class if they will be attending my event, and use it as a conversation opener with the hot indian girl. During this class she mirrored some of my movements, she threw her hair back quite a few times. Put on chapstick, played with her lips using her pen, played with her pen. Looked at my direction. I talked to her a bit during the class(Whispers) asking for time, and asked if she was bored by the prof etc. End of class we talked while on the way out, about general school stuff etc. When we parted she said bye and had her shoulders pointed towards me. Although I did notice that during the class she took up a lot of defensive postures, such as crossing her arms and such, she was also slumped a lot of the times so these could be signs of disinterest, but these were instances between times where she would spawl over her books and lean on the desk towards my general direction.

I am almost sure she is at least somewhat attracted to me, if not quite attracted however I don't know what is the next step for me? Should I ask her to lunch some time this week? (Our class ends at 12:00) I don't want to move too fast considering last time I moved way too fast and fucked things up. Should I ask her if she has boyfriend during our lunch break if it ever happens? Should I just go ahead and ask her out on a date or hold that off maybe a week after our lunch?

I am usually pretty good at getting girls to talk to me, but I am hopeless when it comes to what to do next...

[Xero]

Lunch sounds completely fine.

She does seem to show signs of attraction, but every girl is different.

I admire your courage of being denied the first time and able to pick the game up again so fast and getting back in there to win. This is a very good skill that you need to keep and cherish for life. It should get you the girl of your dreams in the end.

[karasus]

I now realize that the first time I was rejected for what I did and not who I am. I tried to give too much of myself in one go, this time I am going to give the right amount each time and it will be more possible since I am less affected by this new girl's pheromones than the last one. The smell of the last girl drove me insane, I was litterally addicted to her smell.

I don't know if it is wierd of me, but when I consider a person romantically, they have to smell right. That is probably my most important criteria. If they don't smell right then I can't stand them. It is kind of hard to describe what is the "right" smell, but for me it has nothing to do with whether they stink or not. You can stink but still have the "right" smell for me, you can smell like roses but it could still not be "right". Generally the smell I am looking for is from the neck area.

[Xero]

It is understandable, there are kind of pheromones that people do give off.

[karasus]

I asked her for lunch, she took a while answer (probably thinking about her schedule) and then said that she was getting lunch on friday with her friend/roomate. Should I take it as a sign that she is not interested or should I ask her to lunch again, in about two weeks?

[Xero]

I think it sounds like she is uninterested.

Sadly I think you should move on.

[karasus]

Yeah I think so too. However, in the past week she has been the one to initiate most of our conversations and more than once have our eyes crossed and she smiled. She also was quite shy when I completemented her on her new business suit. I am just going to ignore her next class, if she is playing hard to get, she should react. Time to move onto the next girl then.

[Xero]

Good Luck, I like your plan of action its a very good idea.

[karasus]

I completely ignored her this friday, no talking, sat in a seat where you could not see me and didn't wait for her outside of class. She was showing signs of annoyance, legs crossed, foot kicking.

Monday I come back to class go sit next to her, she ignores me initially. She keeps talking to her neighbor but her neighbor doesn't know the exact answer of her homework question. I help her out, she turns her attention to me for a while, and then splits attention between her neighbor and me. The rest of the class she we mutually ignore each other.

End of class, she packs at a slow rate, I purposefully pack even slower, and she slows down and lingers around. When we walk out of the class she walks at a slow pace, and turns her head 90 degrees to look behind her I guess. I have seen her walk before and it is normally faster than what she was going. My normal stride is faster than what she was going at so I naturally catch up to her and strike up a conversation.

I said almost nothing, she blabbed on and on, and threw fits of laughter for no reason. The only times I have seen her randomly laugh like that was when she was interogated by the professor and she did not know the answer. Then she threw out a laugh, due to nervousness. And also she wore a dress again, it is winter and she wore a dress. Last week I commented on how she looked nice in dresses since that was the first time I have seen her in a dress. The monday after I ignore her, she comes back with an attention grabbing dress.

I think she is still interested(correct me here if I am wrong), however I also believe that she does not know what she wants. She probably likes the attention I give her, but she also doesn't want to get attached. I have a feeling that she is taking my attention for granted, so I should make things a bit harder for her and make her realise that I not there for free.

[Xero]

NO!!!

You should stop the games right now. Go on and do things that you would normally do to impress a girl now. Remember a plan of action of being more than a friend.

To me it seems that she does like you, and right now you are at the make it or break it point in able to continue at least a normal friend ship relationship with her. It seems if you do things normally now and go after her she can be yours.

She does seem to either like the attention or like you, this cant be determined currently, but do keep being social with her and see how that goes. (women like compliments.)