My crush and her girlfriend broke up...And now I feel lost.

Hi everyone! Here's my story.

There's this girl at college who caught my attention at the very moment I laid my eyes on her for the first time. She had a girlfriend at the time, so I simply decided to forget about it and didn't pay much attention to her for a while.

But then, a few months later, I realised that she would always look back at me when I passed by her. I began to feel intrigued by her attitude, specially cause she was still dating the other girl. This exchange of looks continued for weeks and my interest in her grew stronger.

I found her on Facebook and added her, eventhough we had never spoken to each other and I knew we could not be more than friends. I also sent her a message, kind of introducing myself. I was expecting her to ignore my friend request, but she accepted it and was very friendly. We exchanged messages and talked about college, music, books and movies. I noticed that she really cared about her gf and was loyal to her, and I respected that.

In the beginning of the year, she and her gf broke up and that encouraged me to show more interest in her through our conversations. But I didn't know if that was the right moment to ask her out or express my feelings, so I decided to be careful and give her time to heal. As the days went by, we chatted more often than before and things seemed to be going well for me. One day, I asked her about her schedule. She answered and asked me why I wanted to know that. I got nervous and said that it was just out of curiosity. The next day, she got back with the girl. I felt sooo miserable!

Last week I found out that they broke up again, less than a month after their first break up. But there are still pictures of her and the ex on facebook...
I'm clueless and don't know what to do. She's a popular girl in college and I fear that someone else will ask her out before I do (or that she will get back with the girl again). I don't know if I should continue being careful or if I should ask her out straightaway. I try to imagine myself in her situation and, if someone asked me out after a break up I would probably accept the invitation, depending on the context of my break up. But I don't know about hers, nor if she would react the same way...I just don't wanna mess things up with her. How long should I wait before making a move? Should I wait?

Any advice on how to handle this situation will be much appreciated!

 

That sounds reasonable. Sometimes I wonder if I should just try to bump into her at the hallways and talk to her for the first time, but I haven't seen her for a while. And everytime I saw her she was surrounded by people, or with the gf.

 

I'm not very confortable with the idea of being her rebound. I don't care if it takes some time for her to get over her ex and hopefully become interested in me.

Despite of my interest in her, I believe that we should probably get to know each other more as friends at first. But the only way to make that happen is to ask her out (or meet her by chance somewhere in the campus, which has a low probability of happening since I haven't seen her around for a while). I'm afraid that if I take too long, it will be too late My problem is figuring out how quick "too quickly" is before I act. And when I do it, I want her to think "hey, she seems to be a nice girl and someone cool to hang out with" and not " that bitch is being disrespectful towards my feelings and she doesn't care that I've just ended a relationship". Do you know what I mean?