affection@kitten similarly, I had a case a few days ago where that girl moved next to me and we started snuggling and looking at each others' eyes, and even though it was getting obvious, I asked "are you into me?" and she said "yeah,, what about you, are you also into me?" and I said "yeah" and that was so freaking hot and it did escalate into me asking for a kiss
Honestly, the verbal stuff was more hot because it reflected truly the reciprocity of out feelings