Hey guys, need some quick advice. Here's the story:
The girl's name is Michelle, and I've sort of had a crush on her for awhile. In preschool we were sort of friends, and we've always been in the same class, and now we're both Seniors. Every year, there's homecoming and our class builds a float. The class has always built it at Michelle's place because she has a large yard, and last year and this year I've found myself spending some time with her building this float and sort of liking her. But once the float building was over, we would pretty much go our own ways. But this year she asked me for my cell number, and so I've been texting her. I was able to get her to hang out with me. That happened today actually. It was just the 2 of us. I went over to her place and we agreed to go see a movie (Invention of Lying) and then we went out and had pizza. I then drove her home to drop her off, her mom called her and said she had to be home by 5. The whole time I've been thinking about how I liked her, and we were flirting the whole time. But there's always that fine line of what's flirting and what's just joking. Well, when I dropped her off, the song Blower's Daughter came on (if you haven't heard it, go take a listen. It's really good). She stayed in the car to listen to the whole song, and when it was over, there was sort of this awkward pause (as you can imagine the end of that song would be when sitting in a car with a girl you like) and so she was getting ready to get out, and I wanted to make sure this didn't just end and become nothing, and have her think this was some random, pointless hanging out of friends. To me, it was a bit more. So I held my hand out, and she put her hand in mine, thinking she was shaking my hand, but I didn't, I held her hand and kissed her hand and said "I'll see you next time". It was kind of well done haha, like it wasn't as awkward as I was afraid it would be, I think I played it well. Anyway, she was surprised and didn't know what to say and said "ok, bye" or something, and left. I know that sounds like she was freaked, but i don't think she was, i think i just really caught her off guard. The problem is, she has a bf.
Well, she just texted me through facebook twice:
Michelle(7:16):
Hey. Um, I don't really understand what happened today. At the end, in the car, before I left. Um, not in a mean way, but what the hell was that?
Michelle(7:21):
Was it a polite gesture? Or something else?
I'm not sure how to reply. I was going to say something like "It's up to you" or "It's whatever you want it to be" but I have no idea now...
Well, what do you think? What should I say?