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I joined my roommate's group where I found this girl, I am a shy guy (college topper and nerd type of) and she speaks a lot. I started to develop a little feelings for her.
After few months I said something terrible about her which when she came to know got really angry. Then my roommate explained to her, but we stopped talking. After few days my roommate told, she calls me her bestfriend still I couldn't gather guts to talk to her.
After few days I ran into her and she started the talk calling me her bestfriend (I barely knew her at that time).
Then she forcefully invited me back to her group and I was acting weird. She tried a lot to make me feel comfortable.
Then we started talking, and then we clarified the issue. The talks started to last longer and we started spending too much of time together in private (as friends).
Then after few days, we exchanged numbers and whenever I called her to meet me in private she was always there for me calling me her bestfriend.
Whenever she felt I am sad she called my roommate to ask the reason.
I started opening up to her and she as well then one day we started texting and it continued from evening to late night and she asked me to call her then we talked late night and she said we are talking this long because we are new friends and we have so much to talk to.
Whenever my roommate tried to make fun of me she defended me.
She invited me to her group's secret party and we all enjoyed and I paid for her and me.
She tells me that she will always be there for me whenever I need her and I can share anything with her because we are best friends.
She signals me that she needs some support because sometimes she feels lonely.
Few days ago we started texting and it lasted for 2 days (not continuously), I got bored and texted her that "Don't you think we are talking too much, she agreed and told that she felt the same but didn't told that cuz she didn't wanted to hurt me, so we promised to talk in college.
Where do u think is this going?

I have found a liking to this girl at school, she plays on the women's volleyball team (university). I don't know her. At the previous match, she threw a signed mini-volleyball towards my direction in the crowd. It's doubtful that it was squarely directed at me, as there were other fans sitting nearby.

I want to ask her out after the next match (next week). I have two plans drawn up.

1. Get a mini-volleyball, write a message to her on it, and following the match, get her attention and toss it to her. Then, ask her out.

2. Create a sign with a slogan dealing with her name and/or #, hold it up during the match when she makes a positive play, then after the match, get to autograph it. Then, engage her in conversation and ask her out.

What do you think? Which plan should I go for?

My gut feeling is, she'll either be kinda creeped out OR she will be surprised and thrilled, and she may say yes.

Any thoughts? Thank you for your feedback!