I'm pretty sure my dad made it to shredder in that game and got wrecked, lol. Seriously, he had way too much patience and was just mad methodical about all that game. Side note, his favorite Zelda was the second one, the side-scrolling, terrible one.
I kinda disagree with Cog on the whole, "if something doesn't happen quickly, it probably won't," thing (I was good, flirty friends with my gf for 5 months before we started going out), but if she's said something along the lines of "you aren't ready to date me," you're probably hopelessly stuck in the friend-zone.
At this point, you just have to decide whether you'd be happier being friends with the girl or taking the long shot of putting your feelings out there, which usually results in some distancing if not a complete end to the friendship if she says no. That's not to say that staying friends with the girl definately won't lead to something, but you certainly shouldn't count on it, so if you stay the course of being a friend, do so without the intent of their being a relationship or you'll just end up brutally unhappy about the whole situation if nothing develops.
And Cog's right, it's not like you ****ed yourself over, it's just the way stuff works out a lot of the time. It sucks, but you really didn't do anything wrong, so don't beat yourself up about it.
. Make it come back.
. A lot of that was probably going to a primarily engineering and sciences school, but I still think the norms on initiating relationships are shifting a bit, at least in the scholastic environment, where meeting and befriending new people is so easy and people don't feel rushed to action.
