My situation is a bit complicated but I am going to try and keep it as brief and concise as possible. Over the past two months or so, I have re-connected with a female friend from grade school, who I had not seen or talked to in 7 or 8 years. We re-connected online, and I was almost immediately attracted to her based on the conversations we had and on recent photos I had seen of her. We had several brief talks, just getting to know each other once again and catching up, and throughout these conversations, we decided it would be a good idea to hang out over her holiday break (she is still in college while I have recently graduated), as we had several mutual friends.
She eventually gave me her number, and it wasn't until she got home from school that we began to exchange text messages, which have become our primary means of communication. I tried to get her to hang out a few times, sending a few texts and making a couple of phone calls, but she never responded to them. After several attempts, I gave up and decided she really didn't want to hang out. A few days after the last phone call, she sent me an e-mail apologizing for not returning my texts or calls (which had been right around Christmas time) and said she had been very busy with family stuff. She also mentioned that she was nervous and hesitant to hang out because she hadn't seen me or our mutual friends in such a long time. She did, however, say that she still wanted to meet up at some point, which eventually happened on New Years.
She let me know the day before New Years that she was excited to see me, and she made sure not to arrive at the New Years' party until I was there. Upon seeing each other, we shared a nice long hug and within 10-15 minutes we started drinking together. Eventually she grabbed my arm and told me not to leave her because she didn't know a lot of the people there and told me to stick by her the entire night. 20 or so minutes later, she pulled me aside and asked me to kiss her. We proceeded to spend the entire night together, kissing, talking, and joking around, and she said a few days later that she had an amazing time. She also admitted, however, that she didn't remember some of the night, but she later recalled several of the conversations we had so she wasn't completely out of it. That night was the high point for me, but I kept in mind that we were both drunk and everyone wants to have someone to kiss for New Years, so I tried not to get my hopes up too high that maybe there were some sparks between us.
I didn't talk to her for a couple of days following New Years, but we ended up sending random texts to each other and eventually we had a couple of good conversations again (she said that she thinks I am hilarious and she loves my sense of humor). She even asked me to go to a bar with her, which I was unable to do, but we decided again that we should hang out before she goes back to school. Since then, however, I have sent her a few texts and I have called a couple of times and she has not responded (similar to the days leading up to New Years). In general, it takes her a good amount of time to respond to my texts (a couple of hours), but lately she hasn't responded at all.
Maybe I am being too pushy in getting her to hang out again, but she has said several times that she wants to spend time with me so I don't know if that is the case. Could she be interested in me and is just playing hard to get, or does it look like she isn't interested at all and I don't really stand a chance with her?
I should also mention that she is very much single, but she does seem to have a lot of guys who are interested in her because she is very attractive and very intelligent. She claims to have not met any nice guys at her school (they are mostly childish and not "real"), but she is interested in having a serious relationship with a mature guy (those are roughly her own words).
Any help is much appreciated, and thank you very much in advance.