Special Girl Super shy classmate likes me

[Conquistador]

In my language class, there's a young woman (she's actually 21).
The Class
Quite intimate (we're down to 10-15 students regularly attending), evenings, Euro aunt first-time professor, I'm her favorite simply because I love the subject and otherwise act like a grad student. In addition, due to organizing an unofficial trip and other things, I have a certain amount of social proof and alpha-ness.
Also, I've had two, maybe three (the doubtful one has an older BF, she was PDAing in a cutesy way on the trip I organized, but she asked for my number rather spontaneously) girls, including the affluent white princess I've mentioned a few times in my journal (she's been skipping lately, idk if she'll even show up for the final), hit on me.
The Girl
Very petite (but average curves in that compact package), always wears makeup (turned me off a bit initially), a year or so older than me but totally inexperienced, incredibly shy (gets off a stop late because the homeless woman at her stop always heckles her, literally ran away when the aforementioned Rich White Girl (who is much less scary in person than she sounds) tried to pull her into our convo after class once). I think she might be on the spectrum, or else have serious social anxiety and stuff.

But I've gotten to know her. We commute together often. Gradually she's opened up to me. She was planning to transfer for spring but is now going to be staying.
Two bus rides ago, she asked what "the straight-haired girl"'s name was. When I told her, she was like "I expected it to be something whiter" and stuff. I decided she was worthy of my confidence and told her that I liked that girl as a person but I wasn't sure if we were compatible.
After getting off the bus, I realized that she was probing for information.
The most recent bus ride together (a week or two after this), I got her number and, a bit later, asked if she was single. She is but "I've never [been on a date]". Not surprising given her shyness and comfort being on her own. I suggested that we go to a park together and talk sometime (seemed the best date option).
A bit later, she told me she "wasn't really looking for a relationship" (which means the opposite of what it usually does). I told her, of course that "if you just want to be friends that's fine, you're cool". Since I didn't get a hard no, I kept feeling around a little. Then I told her, with my best effort at calibrated honesty, that I wasn't sure if I was looking for a committed relationship either but that I was open to getting together with a girlfriend, that I want to explore my options a bit, that I'm religious but "as the Good Book saith: 'tis not good for Man to be alone" (Genesis 2 if anyone's curious), etc. She didn't respond much, but I'd say it was a yellow light.
I let her sleep on it. This was a few days ago.

Anyway, I think the best thing to do, given her sensitivity, is to be friends and not push her too much, leave the door open and gradually make her feel more comfortable until she's ready for me to be her first. I want to bring out her hidden depths, platonically or sexually. And I'm the best guy to do it.

I'm planning to call and/or text her in a bit, trying to arrange something as friends to break the ice. Group activities might be complicated because of her shyness and stuff.

Thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Zoro]

The most recent bus ride together (a week or two after this), I got her number and, a bit later, asked if she was single. She is but "I've never [been on a date]". Not surprising given her shyness and comfort being on her own. I suggested that we go to a park together and talk sometime (seemed the best date option).

Good that you went for the close, but without a good reason to meet up this kind of close will often fall flat like it did here.

One of the reasons deep diving is such a good thing to do, is it gets her opening up about herself. You want to find the things that deeply interest her, and ideally the things that you both are deeply interested in. Then you seed the date that topic. Sometimes it can be as simple as "lets talk more about this sometime". Or it just "feels right" like the interaction is so mutually enjoyable that it's silly not to meet up. Deep diving, flirting, leading, etc. Good game is building connection, rapport and making her feel emotions.

Some examples:

Met a girl at a bookstore and found out she is passionate about music and makes music on her laptop. I told her I do the same. We were already on an instadate and I invited her over that night to make some music and she was so excited.

Met a girl at the beach and she was reading a David Deida book on sex. I told her I loved his work and we got into a conversation on sex and spirituality. Then we swam in the water full of jelly fish (really weird and cool day, tons of harmless jelly fish everywhere!). It was obvious we had a lot in common and so it was worth both of our time to see each other again.

You could argue that these girls were already sold on me, and that it was easy to invite them over. And I would agree, especially on the first example. However the reason why they were sold on me is because we had an obvious connection/reason to see each other. For these two girls I got kind of lucky, but if there is not an obvious connection there, you might not have uncovered it yet.

Now another "reason" to meet up, is the more seductive route. It's what Bacchus talks about with the 3 archetypes. If you play into her fantasies, that is another compelling reason to meet up, although I think this is more advanced and difficult to do than what I described above.

 

[Conquistador]

Good that you went for the close, but without a good reason to meet up this kind of close will often fall flat like it did here.

The problem is that it doesn't work like that here. Moving fast doesn't work. Everything must be calibrated. This is SC with the complication of her being very shy, sexually dormant (I don't think she's an ace tho), and not very confident.

I forgot to mention, she got off a stop early instead of a stop late on that bus ride. The way she did it didn't indicate that she was super uncomfortable, just that she wanted an exit from the immediate situation.

You know how girls with certain flavors of ADHD (such as one of my sisters and the "main girl" in language class) cope (often quite successfully) by quietly evading situations that stress them? This is that times ten.

Her: "I think I'm going to fail; I'm only coming class because the professor is nice."
Me: "I can help you, and there are tutors for the department."
Her: "I don't want to embarrass myself with how badly I'm doing." (she isn't doing quite as badly as some other people, but the language is difficult and 5 units)

But getting her to open up to me, yes, that's what I plan to do.