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Background: we’ve been friends 3 years. I only started liking her more recently as we got to know each other better hanging out one on one. Before I only occasionally saw her in groups. She’s shy and has low self esteem. She also assumes guys don’t like her & she’s never had a boyfriend before.

Way she behaves:
- if we’re hanging out alone, sometimes she can be distracted whilst I’m saying something.
- she rarely texts me first and never initiates plans.
- if someone hints or jokes about something between us, she either laughs in an embarrassed way, says nothing or denies it.
- she can be nervous when we’re alone and carefully words what she says. But not always.
- She laughs at a lot of things I say and when I do something silly like when I bump my head as I follow her across the train carriage as she moved away from the door. But then she laughs at a lot of things.
- in a group of mutual friends, she likes to talk to me the most. She’ll actively come and talk to me and if I’m talking to someone else, she’ll butt in the conversation. She also appears to follow me. If I stay back to take photos whilst the rest of the group walks away or something, she waits for me even if everyone else goes off ahead.
- She says yes every time if I suggest doing something alone with her unless she’s seeing a close relative.
- She occasionally makes prolonged eye contact with me and gets close to me but other times she keeps her distance and if I make eye contact, she reciprocates with a strong smile but then looks away after 5 seconds.
- She made prolonged silent eye contact with me once (about 50cm away) when we got separated from our other friends but then we heard our other friends coming and she pulled away.
- She seems to be next to me in nearly every group photo were in.

I am 33 years old. I am single, multi racial, and non religious.

There is a girl on facebook who is pretty, 32 years old, and a religious catholic who wants to wait to have sex until marriage.

I have a crush on her.

The thing is that we know each other. About 10 years ago we had mutual friends and would be at the same parties and such. We would talk for a little bit but we weren't "close". I went to a different college but we saw each other at parties due to the same network of friends. Does that make sense. So she isn't a complete stranger. We've met and know each other.

On facebook, I am a rather controversial person. I have a tendency to post random thoughts. These random thoughts are philosophical and political. The girl in question has pressed the like button on 20 to 50 of my posts over the last 2 weeks. some of the post have been political statements.

I am also in a rock band. From time to time I post clips of the band practicing or videos of songs I've written on instagram. She likes video clips of me just singing and playing my guitar. Love songs and such. She once commented that I should record one of the songs I've written.

Lastly, I take pictures of the city. She has started liking pictures of those posts as well.

I used to be able to search her on facebook and see the pictures on her profile. As of yesterday I cannot. She continues to like my posts though. Also, she sometimes comments on philosophical posts I make. When I reply she never responds.

What's going on here? Why doesn't she reply to my responses when she makes them? Why is she restrict what I can see on her profile?

I want to ask her out on a date but not if she thinks I am a creepy guy.