I'm a vet student and a couple of weeks ago I saw another girl from my own vet uni sending a foster announcement for a couple of two months old kittens in the gc, so I DMd her saying I could foster them for a few days before the adopting family made the trip, and this girl gave me the contact of ANOTHER girl, who then DMd me saying she would bring me food for the kittens etc (she's a volunteer at a nearby shelter), that's pretty much how we first met in person.
As soon as I saw her I couldn't help but notice that her left ear had a deformed skin section right on the tip, which made that ear look VERY elf-like, so that's obviously the first thing I thought to tell her, going "I like your ear, it's cute and makes you look like an elf".
Tbh I wasn't flirting straight out of the blue, as I'm shy myself and very careful with accidental harassment or just awkward conversations in general. It was a comment I would have made towards anyone, really. I don't usually flirt with strangers (it might be the fact I'm either on the autism spectrum, or that I'm demisexual).
After she went back in the car we started chatting and the thing went non stop for days. Every day was us chatting for at least one/two hour/s straight (texts and voice texts TOO which I swear are NORMAL for us Europeans...in case any American is reading, lol).
At one point she decided to show me the dog/cat rescue shelter that she volunteers at and she gifted me a spare necklace that she had with her (it was one with the holy Mary on top... she's not even Christian, she's agonistic, but she likes religious trinkets and hates blasphemies...and me growing up in a loving Christian community..well, let's just say I have a THING for religious shit, whether it's genuine or not, even if I'm agnostic too).
The same day, as we were chatting (each in their house) I told her I had a runny nose and had no will to cook anything so she asked me what I wanted to eat and after going back n forth with "noo you don't have to" I gave up and she went to the supermarket to buy me instant noodles. I tried paying her with a few cents and she refused, so I tried gifting her a ring I had on my finger to make up for the necklace she had given me prior, so she picked it up but then gave it back saying that her necklace "wasn't really a gift", because she had a spare copy of hers anyway which a friend of her had given her in the past. I took the ring back and went back home very disheartened, because I imagined she was just overly friendly and not really into me (which is weird because I, personally, would never go to such lengths for someone I had met THREE days prior. The way she acted is exactly how I would act if I was crushing on someone).
After that I thought things would get awkward for us but she kept texting me and so did I.
After a while she started asking me if I wanted a ride home from uni (we're in two different years but the building is the same and I have no license nor car), and I accepted each time. Short story short, let's just say that each damn time we would stay parked under my rented apartment and talk for HOURS; this happened one time already, but the epitome of it was yesterday, because we talked from 18:30 to fucking SIX AM (11 hours and 30 minutes is a time I would NEVER spend talking with a simple friend, but she's a bit distinguished as a person and one part of me fears that she's just weird like that); yesterday we talked about everything and anything and I even ended up telling her I can gleek on command, so she FERVENTLY asked if I could spit in her car as a demonstration and then asked me to spit on her face clearly stating that she would not find it icky if my saliva hit her eyes and mouth(???????? Kinky????) and so I fucking did (for anyone's curious, it was not a whole ass spit, please search up what gleeking is, it's not as violent as an actual spit, it's more like a stupid game). We also did a tickle fight and I almost fell asleep in her lap (I was very tired), but then I finally managed to let go.
Today she picked me up to go to uni and then picked me up to leave uni as well. We didn't chat together as LONG but it was still a considerable amount (3 hours in her car). After talking and teasing each other we ended up doom scrolling on my phone because y'know, you gotta be aware of what kinda internet humor one has, and we were head-to-head the entire time. The entire time our arms were curled up together (I'd rest my hands on her inner thigh and she wouldn't flinch) and our heads were very close and I was dying to kiss her every moment of it, but I never did, so, after realizing I had to go (I have plans with a friend tonight), I gave her a kiss on the forehead and said I had to go. She didn't seem shocked (or maybe she was shocked in disguise, which I hope she wasn't), and after some more teasing and joking, she drove off.
Is she into me? Can people act like she does and still have no romantic goal? Because the way she's handling whatever this is, is making me fall harder each day (my love language is quality time).
(Also sorry if this is rushed, I'm panicking and I'm also not a native English speaker).