So a little over a week ago I'm just going about my business and meet a girl while waiting for a bus. Honestly, I wasn't at all in the pickup mindset and was just having a friendly chat to pass time and had no intentions of anything with her. But, we ended up exchanging numbers. Later on I realized that I just got a number from a HB8 without even thinking about it.

She's been txting me a lot. Frequently every single day since I met her. She wants to meet up and refers to it as a date... "I'd like to see you again, are you ever going to ask me on a date?" kind of stuff.

So... two things...
1) I'll be out of town for a while. It might be a week or two before I can make this date happen. How do I keep her interested until then?

2) What technique would you guys recommend to transition from being the friendly guy she met at the bus stop that shes been chatting with to F-closing her... or at least K-closing to set up for a future potential F-close? Is it going to be as simple as physically escalating during the date? I'm a little worried that not doing anything at all the first time around might've set a bad precedent. I'd hate to have already put myself on the way to the friend zone.