Here is the situation report

I am a healthy 47 year old male with no children. I look 25 years old and I have been told I am fairly good looking. I have had a good upbringing in nutrition and exercise which I have adhered to on and off for 30 years but I can really only thank genes for my good fortune.

Unfortunately, I have made bad decisions in my relationship and career choices over the years and find myself back in college at the undergraduate level. In school I am pulling attention wherever I go from Hbs and some display attitudes of great familiarity with me that while unearned, I still appreciate.

I had the great fortune to have a Hb class mate start being familiar with me (playing with my hair, establishing terms of endearment, etc.) She followed me from a previous class in which I barely paid attention to her. She let drop that she was a model and texted me concerning a TV show she was on (I later found out she is a highly successful NY model and cable TV actress.) It woke me up to my lack of knowledge about the game and freaked me out at the same time. I then told her my age and it seemed to alter her esteem of me. She asked me what “such a together guy was doing in college?” I told her that I had been in bad relationships.

I feel whenever I attempt to communicate with her it is working against me. I texted her an invite to lunch and said. “I would like to learn more about you” to which she replied, “You know as much as I am willing to share.” Ouch. I texted her back “Ok” because I don’t want to communicate when I was confused as hell.

After that I pulled back my “energy” around her; spoke amiably to her when she addressed me but nothing else. She asked me in a whisper in class “Do you hate me?” To which I smiled wanly and said “No, I could never hate you.”

A week or so later she texted me inquiring as to what my class schedule will be this summer I am not taking classes this summer and I told her. She then asked about the classes I would be taking in the fall. Confused and exasperated I texted back, “My Love, we can’t depend on classes together for our friendship, if we are to be friends I will need to know if you love me.” She then texted back “That’s a gigantic ask!” Upbraided me, “That’s an awful thing to say to me!” and “You don’t seem like a people person, at all!” That last one was so friggin cute I wanted to pinch her cheeks.

A week later we had our last day of class together, she saw me and smiled, I smiled back at her. She said, “You look REALLY good.” And when I thanked her she beamed from ear to ear reminding me of why she is a successful model. She also repeatedly said, “No summer off for you.” And when she had to leave class early she said, “I love you” hugged me and I asked “do you realize what you just said?” and she said, “Yeah, I heard myself.” 24 hours later I texted her saying “Thank you babe, I appreciate you.” It's been 24 hrs and I know I will not hear back from her.

I am glad I met her because it was a wake up call for me that I am blowing opportunities that are available to me and this is what has finally brought me to this community.

Here is my question.

Is this a lost cause? Whenever she sees me she actively pursues me but out of sight seems to be out of mind with her. Age did make a difference but she seems more than intelligent enough to overlook it. She is extremely perceptive, which keeps me on my toes and is why I have feelings for her, but after watching Mystery’s video encyclopedia I realize I have never offered her any Social Proof or built up any value in her eyes. Worse, after my last relationship I stupidly adopted my ex’s social circle as my own because they were of more value to me. But when the relationship ended, my social circle was gone so as of now I have no social value. What should I do? I am starting to think that I blew this and need to start from scratch and work on myself. What do you guys think?