Let me start by providing a little background info. I’m 18, starting college as a freshman here in the next few weeks, and I’ve never had a girlfriend. Friends that are girls, sure, but little experience with girls besides some mild flirting here and there. I’m not socially awkward or anything around girls, I’ve just never had the chance to have a relationship yet.
Alright, story time. Last night I went with my dad, his girlfriend, and my sister to the closest mall to where we live. I went to the Radioshack there looking for a cheap tablet that went on sale yesterday. My sister and I walked into the store and asked the girl working there if they had any, and we went on to talk about how quickly they were selling. She ended up helping us out by calling a few stores in the area and asking, and eventually she started looking around on Google for some. At this point, my sister left to go look at some other stores, and the girl and I watched her computer monitor while she looked for some and recommended me some tablets they had in stock. She wrote me a note with some kind of tablet on it if I wanted to look it up, and eventually found some kind of fancy laptop on a computer site and was going on about how much she’d love to have it, I just kinda laughed and played along, cause this girl was cute and fun to talk to. She wrote down the laptop too for me to look up.
Eventually we got to talking about work and college. It turns out one of my supervisors is her best friend, and I found out that she’s starting her 2nd year at the community college I’m about to start at. I got to talking about how I’ve been procrastinating on getting stuff done before I start, and she got to giving me advice and telling me how I should probably do things to get going. She ended up writing up notes on a piece of paper and gave it to me. She even ended up handing me a business card for the store, and said that I could call her whenever I had a question, and went as far as to write her cell number down in case I couldn’t get a hold of her at work. We talked for a few more minutes and I had to go.
Now part of me feels that I’m reading too far into this. For all I know, she was just being friendly and helping out a new college student because she wishes somebody would’ve done that for her. The mall’s a pretty dead place, and the Radioshack she works at was one of the few stores left open, so maybe she was just killing time because nobody else was in the store.
But part of me wants to believe there was something else there. I thought she was cute, and though we didn’t exactly flirt with each other, I found her really easy and fun to talk to. She seemed to enjoy talking to me from what I can tell. I don’t know if she was being friendly by offering her cell number for questions, or if she was kind of implying that she wanted me to call her sometime.
I don’t know what to do. Am I reading too far into this? I don’t really have any questions for her, so I don’t really have any reason to call her, but I feel like I should, because if she’s interested, that could lead to talking to her outside of just college stuff. Any advice at all?
