Hey, need your help. I'm 21 years old, turning 22 in 2 weeks. I have 0 dating experience and there is a girl I'm interested in, she's one year younger than me, we could have been childhood friends but my family moved to a different church when i was 7 (yes this has to do with the story) we also moved to a different place to live, i went to different schools from her so we never really got to see eachother for a long time, 7 years later we go back to the former church, but i was 15 she was 14, we were still kids. We didn't talk much, probably teenage angst and i was also sort of dealing with my first rejection with my first ever crush prefering "my best friend" at the time, so i wasn't really looking gor anything at the time and i was also focused on getting to University where the same thing happened again where the girl i tried establishing a connection with prefered one of my closest friends, i was mature enough to accept that it wouldn't work out betwen us due to our different lifestyles, still as well a girl expressed her interest in me as well but with my lack of dating experience, lifestyle difference and strict parents i shut her down, i was not prepared for that headache, there were some other failed romantic endeavours here and there where we never make it pass the talking stage. Bu this time it feels different, let's call the girl I'm talking about now Steph, when we got older she went to the same university as me the year after i joined so it gave three years to see eachother more frequently on a weekly basis rather than just every sunday at church, so we hot close as friends and we found out we kind of have a few things in common like music taste, anime and basketball, but I need to know how create bonds, closeness and even intimacy with her, before someone else tries to get to her, it's already happening this guy is always sitting next to her during service, I can see it in the way he acts but I still believe I have a chance.
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She is majoring different from me and besides I'm not at uni anymore, I'm in an internship and I'll be graduating this year. I can't sit with her at church because I have a role as an interpreter/translator to our local pastor, so most of the time I'm extremely busy. Today though it was as if after service she was expecting me to go and talk to her, when I approached she smiled kind of differently but I don't want to read too much into it, it could as well all be in my mind.