Here's the update,
so she texted the day after

and we chat for a bit. I cut her short cause I have to go play a baseball game and I ll give her a call when Im done.
We talked later that night, and I got this from our convo, her words saying she likes to take things slow, she's not going to even think about going out on a date with the guy until she becomes friends with him
We were talking about Im apt hunting and she is looking for apt also blab blab blab. Then she said we should get an apt together? (shit test) I said no cause me and you wants different things, you want new and pretty apt, I want an apt with great transportation. It gives me freedom to go out and have fun whenever. I don't care if its a little beat down cause I can make it look nice the way I wanted (DHV). Then she said "I can changed my taste on where i live" (IOI).
Somehow the convo leads to her staying over. She said if she is staying over, she is taking my bed and Im sleeping on the couch. ( I couldn't think of any sexual to say back) So I said, that's not going to flow, Im not going to sleep on the couch in my own apt.
Then she said, you supposed to let the girl take the bed, I thought we're "friends". (the dreaded word).
The only comeback I had was, "The bed is for me, my cats or my date, all my friends can sleep on the couch or the bath tub whichever they prefer. So which one do you prefer? couch or the bath tub, the bath tub is nice and cool in a hot summer night."
I know she is attracted to me, while Im writing, this she just texted me, but she flat out said she want to take it slow and she wants to be "friend" before anything.
In my mind, her word "friends" means "more comfortable"
I've been trying to turn all our convo to the sexual side of thing, but its hard cause I don't want be make it too comfortable and end up in the friend zone, and at the same time, too sexual and makes me sounds like a perv.
How should I navigate this situation? What would you do to escalate this?