About 2 months ago i went to a shop and had a good conversation/flirted a bit with the young bird that worked there, we managed to get to know each other a bit. I was chicken sh_t to ask her out and left it at that.
Last week went to the store after not going there for a while and she starts talking to me, seems very friendly and chatty and says she remembers me from last time. Again we have a good conversation and get to know more about each other. I was too afraid to ask her out because her co-worker was in the store. Before saying good bye i said i hope to see her again and she said the same thing.

Friday i bump into her in the shops (she is on her lunch break) and she stops to say hello and have a chat. This time i man up and ask if we can do something one day if she is free and can have her number. She agrees, and when i ask her how you want to do this she grabs my mobile and puts in her name and number, so im thinking promising signs. When we say good bye she pats me on the shoulder, which i guess is a good sign.

I figure when i get home i should text her that she knows its my number, i also in the same text ask her if she wants to go meet up in place X when she is free. Perhaps it was a bit "needy" asking her out a few hours after i got her number, but i figured better send her a txt soon because she does not have my number saved.

Anyway, 48 hours later, no response. Bit strange considering i have been getting good (i think) signals.

I guess it would be best for you guys to see the txt i send to the girl:
"Hey X this is X. When you are free some time it would be great if we can meet up and get to know each other better. Maybe we can meet in they city for a drink and bite when your free?"

I forgot to describe the girl, i think she is 19/20, works in a video game store (LOL i know) and seems very friendly. She is attractive, but im guessing she wouldnt stick out in a nightclub. Maybe bit of a "geeky girl", lives with a single mother (yeah i know).

In hindsight i think i shot myself in the foot by asking to early and also not setting up a actual time/date.

My question is how would i improve myself in doing this in the future, and also what is my next move with this girl?

Might seem wimpy but im not to sure how to act when i see her next.

Hi Willie,
Firstly props on getting her number and being a man to ask her out. But I feel that in the interaction you had with her, there was not enough comfort and maybe she doesnt feel comfortable in hanging out with you yet.

Ya and secondly i think u asked her too early for a date via text. Next time shoot a few texts to get to know her better.

Thanks for the response dude.

Yeah looking back, the first text should have been something like a friendly hi and ask her how her day was or something, hopefully i didn't scare her off or anything.

I guess, my next question is, what is my next step with this chick? Chances are i will see her again at the shop. I would like to try to ask her out again, or at least try make the conversation lead to that, but i am too worried to come of as some sort of creep, because part of me thinks she just gave me the number to appear "nice" instead of turning me down and saying no.....

Another problem is she usually works with her manager, and im not brave enogh to ask out a girl that way lol

Sorry if this seems like a bit of one-itis

Make friends with the manager. If the manager likes you they may bring you up in conversation and suggest the girl goes out with you. I've seen it quite a bit with girls that age.

Flakes generally occur when there is not enough comfort or the guy reeks like a player when a girl replays the tape in her mind.

Here, it's probably the former. You probably should have texted a little more, built up some momentum, met her somewhere on a non-date and asked her out in person.
That's needy/AFC thinking. Let me ask you this: if you were an experienced PUA, you taught seminars and you had incredible success with women that was achieved through years of experience, how would you deal with this girl now?

There's your answer on what to do next.