is she interested or am I bugging?

Ask her.

ok. explaining these things is never brief, so I'll break it up into bullet points so it's easier to read.
context: there's a girl in my class (16) who I am interested in, and I'm not sure if it's mutual or not. I am 16 too. the desks are set out like this: |____| . the whiteboard is opposite the ____ line. the two | | rows of desks face each other. she is at the top left of the left | line, while I am at the right side of the ___ line.
Here is the chronological list of all that's happened!
• girl in my class who catches my eye after the first lesson.
•after a few days of having the lesson, we make eye contact for the first time. I look away immediately because I was just looking at her and feel like a weirdo for it.. lol
• 20 minutes or so later, I feel her looking at me. I check, and sure enough she is but I look down straight away.
• the next lesson, we exchange glances a bit more frequently. I can never hold them though, and tend to look away first because it would feel wrong to hold the gaze. at this point I feel that she is only looking at me because she feels me looking at her, and is checking to see if I am. that's not good.
• but, in the same lesson SHE holds the gaze and I do a bit too. she looks at me for longer than usual, but neither of us smile and I kick myself for not trying to
• lesson after this, we don't really look at eachother much at all despite my best efforts. it feels a bit hot and cold, like some lessons we will have good mini eye contacts and other lessons she doesn't really acknowledge me being there as much.
•one big turning point in my mind: a lesson where the task we are doing is fun and is as a class. when jokes are made, she looks at me smiling. I look back, also smiling, and she doesn't drop the smile or look away.i do though, and feel a bit uncomfortable so look away. I look back up a second later to see her still looking at me though, and she's still smiling. I hold the gaze for a bit longer and look down for a bit longer this time. I then think to look up one more time and she is still looking at me with a grin on her face. I think to talk to her after the lesson but she leaves fairly quickly and I don't want to be running after someone I've never spoken to before.
• the turning point feels like it was for nothing and is 'undone', because the next lesson it goes back to the phase of her not really taking much notice of me despite me trying to recreate that feeling from the last lesson.

that long list (sorry) brings me to now. It is still on the hot and cold phase, but in the most recent lesson I noticed she would keep her body facing towards me, even though it means she has to angle herself away from the board to do so. she also runs her fingers through her hair quite a lot in the lesson, but I don't want to be one of those guys who takes a basic human action the complete wrong way and thinks it's some super deep hint and I'm some egotistical prick who thinks it means something.. NO! but this is all coming from someone who is absolutely dreadful at taking hints and this kind of stuff in general. So, I guess my question is: is this a clear yes go talk to her chain of events?? or is it a no, don't get over your head kind of thing?

yeah i wish it was just that simple i really do but that isn't what im asking about

Girls give signs and would talk to you first if interested. How goodlooking are you? If she's over your league there's no way because she has tons of better options at her fingertips.

You can either spend weeks/months/years analysing every micro gesture trying to find a mythical 'risk free' approach, or just ask if they want a low key meetup or food/drink/bowling etc and find out straight away.

I know that seems unthinkable at 16, (it certainly did for me), but it is the only reliable way of finding out whether any feelings are reciprocated.

Otherwise you will waste a huge amount of time developing feelings where it is a compete waste, (and you'll be crushed when someone else just asks them out in the interim).

hi, thanks for replying!
you're so right, ive said to myself that i need to just take a first step even if it's just small talk, because as you said she'll have someone else speak to her, or she could just lose interest. today at college at the end of the lesson she was kind of waiting for me to leave by packing her stuff up slowly and glancing over, but i was still doing the work and didn't think too much of it. but when she was leaving the lesson she opened the door and then turned her head back and looked at me for a good few seconds before leaving, almost like she acknowledged me without speaking? im still trying to decode that one right now. i just find it's so easy for me to be sitting at home thinking about a scenario where i go and just effortlessly talk to her, but then when it gets to the moment i think about how deranged i was to think it was that easy. hm. but yes thank you for what you said, it's all very helpful

ok. explaining these things is never brief, so I'll break it up into bullet points so it's easier to read.
context: there's a girl in my class (16) who I am interested in, and I'm not sure if it's mutual or not. I am 16 too. the desks are set out like this: |____| . the whiteboard is opposite the ____ line. the two | | rows of desks face each other. she is at the top left of the left | line, while I am at the right side of the ___ line.
Here is the chronological list of all that's happened!
• girl in my class who catches my eye after the first lesson.
•after a few days of having the lesson, we make eye contact for the first time. I look away immediately because I was just looking at her and feel like a weirdo for it.. lol
• 20 minutes or so later, I feel her looking at me. I check, and sure enough she is but I look down straight away.
• the next lesson, we exchange glances a bit more frequently. I can never hold them though, and tend to look away first because it would feel wrong to hold the gaze. at this point I feel that she is only looking at me because she feels me looking at her, and is checking to see if I am. that's not good.
• but, in the same lesson SHE holds the gaze and I do a bit too. she looks at me for longer than usual, but neither of us smile and I kick myself for not trying to
• lesson after this, we don't really look at eachother much at all despite my best efforts. it feels a bit hot and cold, like some lessons we will have good mini eye contacts and other lessons she doesn't really acknowledge me being there as much.
•one big turning point in my mind: a lesson where the task we are doing is fun and is as a class. when jokes are made, she looks at me smiling. I look back, also smiling, and she doesn't drop the smile or look away.i do though, and feel a bit uncomfortable so look away. I look back up a second later to see her still looking at me though, and she's still smiling. I hold the gaze for a bit longer and look down for a bit longer this time. I then think to look up one more time and she is still looking at me with a grin on her face. I think to talk to her after the lesson but she leaves fairly quickly and I don't want to be running after someone I've never spoken to before.
• the turning point feels like it was for nothing and is 'undone', because the next lesson it goes back to the phase of her not really taking much notice of me despite me trying to recreate that feeling from the last lesson.

that long list (sorry) brings me to now. It is still on the hot and cold phase, but in the most recent lesson I noticed she would keep her body facing towards me, even though it means she has to angle herself away from the board to do so. she also runs her fingers through her hair quite a lot in the lesson, but I don't want to be one of those guys who takes a basic human action the complete wrong way and thinks it's some super deep hint and I'm some egotistical prick who thinks it means something.. NO! but this is all coming from someone who is absolutely dreadful at taking hints and this kind of stuff in general. So, I guess my question is: is this a clear yes go talk to her chain of events?? or is it a no, don't get over your head kind of thing?

best thing to do is either just ask her out and you'll find out whether she's interested or not, or keep doing this dance until you've graduated and its too late.

just speak to her, you'll regret in the future if you don't.

No worries. If it makes you feel any better, I guarantee you that nearly everyone makes the same mistake about fixating on these small little 'tells' rather than just talking to the other person.

she likes you for sure

I'd say she isn't that into you

thanks for the reply - you think so? i am hoping that's the case, but i just don't know how to determine whether its just that she either likes the attention or is only looking at me because she knows im looking, and is merely checking how often i look at her. but what is it that makes you so sure? thanks

thanks for replying.

you're definitely right, i just struggle to find a good time to speak to her. the college i am at is so big, and i have barely seen her outside of the classroom. when i see her in the lesson - e.g. waiting outside to go in, she always goes straight to her friends who sit next to her and i don't think that would go down very well. i just need to find a right moment, but i'm struggling.

a lot of people tend to stare at their crush a lot and its true that when jokes are made people look at their crush to see their reaction.

do you have any way to contact her? i had a similar situation where i was like the girl you're talking about and the only way i was able to talk to him alone was by messaging him