It's only six paragraphs, hear me out...

So i work at at a department store, which is a great place to get over AA. I can talk to people, help them find stuff, practice reading body language cues, etc. all while making it seem like I'm doing work. Anyway so some new chick gets hired. Cute, huge breasts, nice ass, pretty good for a dark skin chick.

The next day after I work with her she starts to follow me around the store like a lost puppy asking me questions seeking my attention, so I ignore her, and neg her. A few days later after I did the cube on her, and get her number, we start texting back and forth for like a week, etc. etc. that leads to talking on the phone almost every night about our lives and goals and shit with some innuendo in there.

This chick thinks I'm funny or at least says so, and somehow I always keep her laughing and smiling. It's funny like how I would go talk to one of the HBs at work to try to make her jealous, so she goes talk to the alpha, or when Im on the phone texting or talking she does the same thing. She mimics my actions to try to get a response. Yet she says I'm in the friend zone. I told her I don't stay in the friend zone for too long, and she laughed it off.

We go on a date one of the good pizza resturants in the city, and we both had a blast! Making faces in the photo booth, trying to figure out other people's lives who were at the restuarant with us, making dirty jokes, kino (she grabing my ass, im smaking hers) sharing a banana split, shit u see new young couples do, but we both really enjoyed each other's company. No kiss close, only kiss on the cheek. My dumbass should of invited her inside, but my house was an entire mess at the moment.

Date #2, I went shopping at the mall with her. Now at this point, if I dont esculate the attraction I'm lost in the LJBF zone forever. We go around holding hands, playing around, I picked her up and carried her. She buys some shit, we go from store to store, I help her get an outfit, we go out to eat again. This time she tries to make me jealous by using her usual tatics texting and talking with other dudes. At this point I felt like the second date flopped compared to the first one. But just as I am about to get out the car, she says she wants to come in, but what we were gonna do. She wanted to watch movies but I told her my DVD player was broke, and she said maybe next time.

I see my errors, and I am willing to learn from my mistakes. Now I don't really have feelings at all for this chick, although her jealously thing works sometimes. I'm just trying to f-close, but she is taking this best friend shit too far. I'm probably gonna freeze her out, and just go from there. What's the best way the salvage this?

Ignore everything she says about the friend zone. Completely disregard it.

You need to escalate more, go for the kiss! If she rejects you, then laugh it off and act unphased. Even with one of my close female friends I am always making jokes about trying it on with her and taking her out, I have no intention to, but its just fun to be like that and it makes her laugh (obviously were I genuinely trying to, I would actually follow through.)

But it's a good frame for how to act around girls, when I escalate, its generally not an awkward, out of character move like it used to be with me, because I am fun and flirty right from the get go.

Good point. When I think about escalating, I only think physical but I know its somethin else I'm missing. We both flirt with each other, the kinos there, and when I'm serious and try to go in and kiss she tells me to quit playing but then goes to rubbing on my chest again. What way should I approach this?

dont do this shit, try to close way sooner, if you do this type of friends behavior you gonna be in the friends zone all the time. Way too much gay gaming, or supposed gaming, for fear of rejection/failure.