I’m confused, ladies please help

Ok so let me add some context for everyone reading:

Me: 22M

Crush: 18F

My best friend and I have known each other for almost 10 years. Our friendship is like we’re brothers and not just friends. We hang out 1-2 a week and it’s been like that since we met and our friend group consists of my brother and cousins and my best friend and his cousin, we are all inseparable. Our families are close to the point where we go on all their family trips together.

Ok so he has a younger sister, who is my crush lol. I’ve known her just as long so more than half her life. As we got older I noticed our relationship become closer in a way I can’t explain, you just know type of feeling.

Anyway, for the longest time she has always given me queues of attraction such as, I catch her staring at me, she finds subtle ways to touch me, she plays with her hair or constantly applies lip gloss when she’s near me, she tells me of places we should go together, and of course I like her too.

So here’s where it gets tricky or at least where my confusion begins. So 2-3 months ago, I built up the courage to ask her out on a “date”. I want to emphasize I didn’t say “hey we should hangout” I said “hey what do you think if you and I went on a date”. And then I found out that she’s talking to someone. So, her response was (while somewhat blushing/smiling) “a date? I’ll see”. Which to me is a no but idk.

Fast forward to literally last night, we went to a music festival together (her idea). And I’ve always been the type of person to take photos of places I’m at with the people I’m there with. Naturally, i wanted to take pictures. - ok so here’s where it gets interesting:

When I handed my phone to someone next to us, it happened to be a drunk lady who was funny asf. When I handed her my phone the first thing she said was, “ok so what are doing here, maybe a lil smooch” and idk why but I immediately said “no no just a hug is fine”. After she took some pics of us she said “omg you guys are just too cute please have a lil smooch”. And my crush began to chuckle and nervously began saying “this is my brothers best friend” the drunk lady was like “sooo you don’t have to tell your brother” and we both started laughing. I don’t know how to explain it but after the lady said that, we looked each other in the eyes as if we were both saying “this is crazy but let’s do it”, unfortunately we didn’t lol. I think she was too nervous and wanted me to lead but I was also wayyy to nervous. Long story short, we ended up kissing each other on the cheek. I kissed her first on the cheek, took a pic and then it was my crushes turn to kiss me on the cheek. The drunk lady kept messing up the pic so it resulted in my crush kissing me three times on the cheek 😂. It was amazing and I was super happy. After I got my phone back my crush then took out her digital camera asked the drunk lady to take pictures on it too.

So when we finished the pics and got back to watching the performance, (btw the entire night she was standing in front of me by an inch, as if I was hugging her from behind) i then leaned in and jokingly said “thanks for the smooches” i then asked her “are you still talking to that guy?” And she said yes. I jokingly said “it’s ok” and she laughed and said “you’re crazy”.

Ok so now the singer we’ve been waiting for finally got on stage and we were both excited. At this point the drunk lady that took our pics is still next to us. My crush was in front of me so she didn’t see when the drunk lady whispered to me “hold her”. I immediately got nervous and started smiling too much 😂. I didn’t know what to do and I was hesitant. The drunk lady kept encouraging me and told me “trust me she likes you, don’t be a wuss and just hold her, she’s not standing in front of you like that for nothing.”

So, I took her advice and did it. I placed my hands on her waist. I leaned into my crush and said “is this crazy” and she blushingly said yes, I then said “tell me if this is not okay and I’ll stop”, and she said “no, it’s okay”. I then fully wrapped my arms around her and interlocked my fingers on her stomach.

Believe me when I say I melted, it was so perfect and I felt so at peace holding her. As the night went on, I told her “if the song were waiting for comes on, we have to dance” and she said yes. So the last song plays and we spent the next few minutes holding each other and dancing.

The whole night was filled with laughter, banter and great conversations. We were also a bit tipsy lol.

The parts that I keep going over is that my crush never said no to us kissing, I think I was too much of a wuss and didn’t just do it. It was my crushes idea to kiss each other on the cheek.

But she’s still talking to someone and I can’t forget the feeling I had when she didn’t say yes to us going on a date a few months back when I asked her. I hate that she’s talking to this guy.

I’m not sure how she feels ab me. If I ask her on a date idk if she’ll say yes this time. And I don’t think I can take a no again, it hurt too much the first time.

Idk, ladies help me please. Put yourself in her shoes and tell me how I should approach this. She means so much to me. I feel like there’s something there but idk what to do.