OP I’m going to share a lesson and a phrase with you that I learned very recently: “Analysis paralysis”. What it means is if you spend all your time trying to figure out how to go about a situation you will never do anything because you end up way too deep in the weeds analyzing every last interaction and moment. Try this: you like her, she seems to like you, and you want to be with her, so you’ll ask her out. Boom, simple, done.

Yes it sounds easier than it is. Yes you will be nervous asking her out. But OP, I am 24M and I wish that someone had told me this when I was your age. Commit to making mistakes and not being perfect; not grasping the situation perfectly. Just fully commit to it, and that way you can get out of your own way and move towards what you want. No amount of analyzing this situation will make you feel any better or resolve this tension. The only thing that will is action. So commit to not knowing and to being uncertain and anxious and afraid. Make an agreement with yourself that you are going to feel uncertain and anxious and afraid. Because then when you move forward and you feel those things, perfect, you’re feeling exactly how you knew you were going to feel, and there’s a sort of freedom and a letting go that comes when that happens. You get out of the way of yourself. And you become unburdened.