I've been trying to work this HB8 for about a week but I'm stuck, and fear being cut off altogether after investing quite a bit of time because she is going on vacation to Hawaii for a couple of weeks now.

The story is that I started chilling with this girl every other day (introduced through a friend), just getting food or going out somewhere (nothing fancy). She gave some IOIs (looking at me a lot, smiling, and such). Some limited kino from her end, such as touching my hair, but other than that not too much. I've done some kino escalation whenever appropriate (touching her back guiding her, or tapping her shoulder when talking to her). I've also given her a fairly sensible back massage for 30 mins or so which she really enjoyed. I played with my limits a bit (getting very close to the more sensible zones) and she didn't give push back at all.

We text a lot but she doesn't respond too much when I give SOIs (and I've given a few in a playful manner). Now, I know she must have some interest simply because I know she typically tells guys right away when she doesn't like them and doesn't usually agree hanging out with guys that are into her. Also, whenever I stop responding to her texts (short freeze-out) she tends to start texting me again within a couple of hours. I try to keep my response times completely unpredictable and sometimes on purpose don't respond for an hour or longer. When I'm with her I usually do lots of C&F and I think I'm coming across as confident (because I feel that way).

Now, as I wrote in the beginning, she's going on vacation to Hawaii for a couple weeks. Because this all is 'fresh' I'm wondering if we're back to square one when she's back (or if this even going anywhere at all), or if I should try to stay in touch much while she's gone. She'll be going out a lot while there so I don't want to interfere and come across as needy either.

Suggestions how to handle this? I like her and would love to see where this can go. She's certainly a bit of a challenge. But some of the challenge may come from some insecurity on her end (even though she comes across as very tough and witty).

Please give me some input guys. Thanks!

definitely text her while she's on vacation. you don't want her to forget about you, and you don't want her to think that you've forgotten about her either.

I know she arrived in Hawaii by now but she hasn't texted yet. Should I reach out?

yeah text her but not to much just so she realises you still like her, have you k-closed her? if not then you should soon to take it to the next step. by the sounds of it shes definatly into you and wont pull away