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"Should I ask her if our relationship could develop further?"

I’ve known this girl I like for a while (few months). We talked about school, friends and personal things over the `net. We also talked about our problems and sympathized with each other. We went for a movie and for a coffee now and then, just being friends. Her ex wasn’t really that nice to her and didn’t change some awful habits she wanted him to change. So she broke up with him shortly after Christmas.

We’ve been still hanging out normally after the breakup – going to cafeterias, museums and to the movies. She asks me out to coffee or a movie every now and then, and I ask her to coffee or a movie every now and then. I speculate neither of us thinks of these meetings as proper dates. Like I said, we talk very openly about everything. She sits facing me, I sit towards her.

We joke and laugh much, we often look each other in the eyes when talking and lean towards each other, she listens to me and I listen to her. I make sure she talks more than I do, and I listen to her carefully. She is comfortable being with me (her arms are open, smiling, tilting her head etc.) and we like the company of each other. I mostly pay for the movies and coffee, and when I don’t accept her paying me back she playfully "gets annoyed".

But some things have changed. After the breakup she has started to message me quite much on my mobile phone, about 20 messages a day (same amount for me because I’m answering and trying to keep her writing to me). And when we went to watch a movie recently she first took my hand into hers and also rested her head on my shoulder whenever the picture got scary, but we held hands until the end. After a snowball fight and just rolling down the hill together we cleaned the snow off each other. Recently we’ve hugged after every meet and she even asked me to come over and watch some rare film she has. I guess she is interested in me at least a little, or do girls really act like this and be only friends?

Sadly I don’t have enough experience to tell the difference. At some point I’d like to ask her if we’re just going to be really good friends or if our relationship could develop further. I’m confident that even if she only wants to be friends she wouldn’t let the question hurt our friendship. I’m not gonna know unless I ask, right? Her birthday is at the end of January and because these special days are important to girls I was wondering if I should ask her before or after her birthday or at all.

10 Jan 2006
Name: Gabriel
Age: 19