signs i missed before dating my now gf that she liked me?? (just me wanting to talk about her)

so we met for the first time back in 2023 december, but it was just for a few minutes and later i totally forgot about her but still had her in the back of my mind. though i remember seeing her later in like in mid feb and that was just her saying hi to me once and i barely recognised her. then we met directly met in july, it was some event and i was sitting on the first bench and then she entered the classroom and initially was sitting somewhere else but then changed her seat and sat behind me. for the first like 10 minutes we didnt talk but then she suddenly got up while i wasnt paying attention and came infront of my desk, slamming her hands on my desk catching me off guards as she said "you are so pretty kill yourself, no dont, you are too pretty to die" then she was sitting behind me and randomly throwing compliments. then we talked about this cat garden nearby and she asked me if i wanted to go there with her and i was like "yeah". later there was this activity where everyone got like only one plain paper and had to write any anonymous message, and she was fighting with the host that she wanted two pieces of paper as everyone only got one, she then wrote a very cute note to me which at that time i didnt know was written by her but she later mentioned it was her who wrote it. the note was like "spend quality time, go on long walks would hold hand, spoil you, etc" this is like the summary. then we visited that cat garden but also. and then for a months we kept texting eachother. then she asked me one on like 29 august at night she asked me if i was free the next day and that would i like to hang out with her. ofc i said yes. i lowkey liked her at that point. next day when i was getting ready she texted me asking if this was a date to which i replied "is this?" she said "if you want it to be a date then it is" and this kept going back and fourth until i said yes and she said "yayyyiie yippie". we met that day and it was very comfortable. she said it felt like two besties meeting after a long time and didnt feel like a date. later while texting she said she never got this comfortable with anyone this fast, even it took alot of time to get this comfortable with her bestfriend. we then met at a later event a few days later, she entered the classroom and scanned the room, i was sitting in like middle, ignoring all of her friends she came and hugged me so damn tightly, then went on hugging and meeting her other friends that she didnt meet for like over a month then she stood near the door where theres good space and motioned me to hug her, i walked up to her and hugged her, she literally picked me up while hugging that i almost fell and broke my crocs, even when i was reattaching the strip of my croc she leaned and tucked my hair behind my ear and i backed away to which she said "dont make everything gay" we were acting very idk based on what other people said, they thought we were dating to whic she said "is this a sign for us to date?" later i remember confessing accidently to her on text when i was back in my hometown and she said "did you just confess to me over text?" "when the fuck are you coming back, we NEED to meet" but we couldnt meet for like a month. then i was on a college study tour in mid november and she called. my friends and me were having our lunch and i was done so i was walking outside when she called. we talked and talked and suddenly a topic came up, i told her that my friend thinks that she is my girlfriend to which she asked "girlfriend? am i?? are we dating? we ourself dont know" she was just playfully saying this in sarcasm and i replied "i mean i wouldnt mind, i do like you" accidently spilled it out and she went silent and then said "WHAT, thats a crazy confession" i felt like rejected so i said "i take it back, forget it" and she went like "noo dont take it back, i may or may not like you back" to which i said "what do you mean by that? dont give me mix signals" and she said "i do like you but didnt know if you did." i was like "i literally confessed on text like a month ago" she said "i thought you were being platonic and me liking you was so obvious that even the people around us thought we were dating, you were so blind" 

after i came back from that trip, we couldnt meet for like 10-15 days cause of busy schedule but finally met and started dating.