u/Head-Government-3074

I (18f) have a crush on this guy in my class. It’s pretty small, maybe 16 people or so. He’s really cute and incredibly smart, and a grade older than me. I kind of worry that he’s too smart for me lol but I am very attracted to intelligence. We’re not really friends though, and have only talked a handful of times over the course of the year.

The crazy thing is, we’re from the same city, and in high school I used to go see a lot of shows. When I was 15, I remember seeing his band playing, and thinking he was cute then. Maybe I was crazy but we kept making eye contact from across the room as other bands played. I met him again last year when I was visiting the college, and he was tabling at a club fair thing. We talked for a while and I realized that I had seen him playing, and we knew some mutual people from the city. I thought he was really cute, and I couldn’t stop thinking about him even when I went home. Fast forward to this year at college, he sat down to talk to me and some of my friends since one of mine knew him from high school. My attraction kinda faded, and I saw him around occasionally during the first semester. Sometimes when we would walk by each other he would say hi or nod at me or smile or something. I found out I had class with him spring semester, and I was kind of excited.

We both sit in the front row, and I always catch him looking at me. Some days it’s less, but others its constant. I remember the first day of class we were like staring into each other’s eyes for ten seconds before his face broke into a big smile. It usually goes like that during class, we both keep looking at each other and staring at each other and sometimes smiling. We’ve run into each other a few times and talked about class and other stuff. On easter, I went to mass, which I never go to, and saw him there. He kept looking at me during mass, and we talked after, and even my friend who was sitting with me during the service told me “yeah it’s definitely not in your head, he kept looking at you”.

I really want to ask him out, but I don’t know how to do it in a smooth way, and the semester is almost over! I feel like I can’t just go up and ask since we don’t really know each other that well. Help! What should I do?