27M, Crushing hard on this girl 28F, afraid of pushing her away though

Ok so this girl came up in the "people you may know section" of Facebook due to mutuals. Her picture immediately made me say, "Sweet jesus she's adorable," so I browsed her profile. Looked like we had a few things in common and she shared a ton of good quality memes so I sent her a friend request. She accepted and I interacted with her posts a little bit over the next two days.

Day two, my feed was LITERALLY nothing but her posts so I sent her a message and said, "I swear I'm not trying to creep on you, but all I'm seeing is your posts and they're 👌🤌🤌" She "heart reacted" and said, "Aw thank you lol I feel like people prob get annoyed seeing my shitposting all the time 😅"

After that, we talked about our interests and stuff for a bit intermittently over the next day or so, but eventually she stopped replying.

A week later, I remember she tells me she works at a store nearby that I shop at occasionally so I stopped in hoping to run into her and I did. We talked for a second, she seemed busy so I cut to the point. "I know we just met like 30 seconds ago but how would you like to see [this movie] with me?"

She replies, "oh i would love to but I've already seen it."

I thought I was a goner, fellas. And then she smiled and said, "but there are things i haven't seen. When would you want to go?"

Two days before our date, I say let's decide on a movie. She said she has to wait to make sure she can really go that day because she hasn't gotten her schedule. No biggie.

Fast forward to the day of, I wake up to a message from her saying "hey, sorry 😞 today's just not a good day" so I replied with "that's no problem. It seems like you don't have a lot of free time. So, i hope I'm not being too forward, but here's my number. Message me when you get a good day and I'll make time for you." She apologized again and said she would let me know for sure.

Now we're caught up, that was this past Wednesday. Since then weve chatted a tiny bit, interacted a little with each other on facebook, I've dropped some flirty comments that have been met with hearts.

Here's where you come in, reddit. Do I wait, or do I be a little more forward? I really like this girl and just want to spend a little time getting to know her. My idea at the moment is to wait until the night before my next off day, ask her if she's working that day and offer to take her to lunch for her break somewhere right next door to her store. Thoughts?

Edit: don't flame me for emojis, they're verbatim

Submitted May 09, 2022 at 12:06AM

Ok so this girl came up in the "people you may know section" of Facebook due to mutuals. Her picture immediately made me say, "Sweet jesus she's adorable," so I browsed her profile. Looked like we had a few things in common and she shared a ton of good quality memes so I sent her a friend request. She accepted and I interacted with her posts a little bit over the next two days.Day two, my feed was LITERALLY nothing but her posts so I sent her a message and said, "I swear I'm not trying to creep on you, but all I'm seeing is your posts and they're 👌🤌🤌" She "heart reacted" and said, "Aw thank you lol I feel like people prob get annoyed seeing my shitposting all the time 😅"After that, we talked about our interests and stuff for a bit intermittently over the next day or so, but eventually she stopped replying.A week later, I remember she tells me she works at a store nearby that I shop at occasionally so I stopped in hoping to run into her and I did. We talked for a second, she seemed busy so I cut to the point. "I know we just met like 30 seconds ago but how would you like to see [this movie] with me?"She replies, "oh i would love to but I've already seen it."I thought I was a goner, fellas. And then she smiled and said, "but there are things i haven't seen. When would you want to go?"Two days before our date, I say let's decide on a movie. She said she has to wait to make sure she can really go that day because she hasn't gotten her schedule. No biggie.Fast forward to the day of, I wake up to a message from her saying "hey, sorry 😞 today's just not a good day" so I replied with "that's no problem. It seems like you don't have a lot of free time. So, i hope I'm not being too forward, but here's my number. Message me when you get a good day and I'll make time for you." She apologized again and said she would let me know for sure.Now we're caught up, that was this past Wednesday. Since then weve chatted a tiny bit, interacted a little with each other on facebook, I've dropped some flirty comments that have been met with hearts.Here's where you come in, reddit. Do I wait, or do I be a little more forward? I really like this girl and just want to spend a little time getting to know her. My idea at the moment is to wait until the night before my next off day, ask her if she's working that day and offer to take her to lunch for her break somewhere right next door to her store. Thoughts?Edit: don't flame me for emojis, they're verbatim