I would appreciate some advice on this sort of strange situation...

Background
Almost exactly a year ago, I met a girl the same age as me while volunteering at a charity shop. We got on great from the get go, and I ended up asking her to hang out and we played some pool before I had to leave for the summer as I was only in town while attending university.

I never saw her again until two weeks ago as she went to study abroad. In that time apart, we kept in touch via Facebook and had a good text conversation every 2 months. A month ago she returned to town and started volunteering again at the charity shop. We get on great still, we hold strong eye contact with each other when we are talking, we smile alot at each other, and she seems to laugh at all my jokes (I am always making her laugh, I'm naturally witty), I tease her alot and she enjoys it. I asked her to hang out and we played pool after out volunteering shift finished two days ago. I am going to be leaving town for summer in 3 weeks, and will then be going to study abroad for a year, so the logisitics for dating are very bad, and that has been affecting my game, as it almost pointless trying to game her as there will be no happy ending in terms of dating.

The Issue
Although we get on great in person, the girl doesn't seem to initiate text conversation, and also never shows any physical IOIs like touching me etc. In fact we have never touched each other and also never sexually esculated/talked about sex. I think I might be a friend to her only, however the non physical IOI's make me think there might be something more. I would say she is a more reserved girl, although she is very sociable, she dresses conservatively, doesn't wear makeup, lives at home while at university, and wants to live the rest of her life in the small town she currently lives in (weird!). I enjoy hanging out with her and we really do get on well together, I don't want any regrets though and want to take this as far as I can and maximize the fun I can have with her before I leave, as there's no guarantee I will ever see her again as a year is a long time. What should my game plan be considering everything I've said?

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If I read that right you're not doing any kino or possibly not escalating at all. She might have you short listed as a potential sex partner but your lack of escalation is confusing her, which probably explains the lack of IOI's and her never initiating texts. I wouldn't be surprised if on your pool dates she was thinking "why are we playing pool, why isn't he trying to fuck me"

Basically you friendzoned yourself but you might not be that deep in, so just escalate and kino, invite her to your place, make it more clear to her that you want her sexually. Do it well, or even close enough, I wouldn't be surprised at all if your next date ends in the bedroom.

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