How do you ask someone out?

LegacyUser

ive never been in a relationship or anything like it, never asked anyone out. I'm actually a complete noob to be honest when it comes to intimacy of any kind, which is why im writing about such a simple question in an internet forum

but this was a situation last week that i was in..

i live in a house in college with another lad called jack, now jack has another group of friends that live on another part of campus so one night we decided we would go over to their apartment before we went out (i didn't really know these people very well i might say hello to them when i see them around but not much else)

but there was one girl in the apartment that i knew a little bit better that everyone else and i knew that at the minute she was meeting/shifting/kissing (not in a relationship) another fella who was in the house at the time so i was talking to her for a bit and then we split up and i head to the night club and that was it, i didn't see her for the rest of the night

the next day i asked my own house mate what happened to her last night, where was she, or what was her story and he said "oh she didn't go out last night because the lad she was meeting asked her out!, so i presume shes spending the whole day with him today"
and i checked facebook that day and say she had updated her relationship status

this got me by shock because i dont really understand what my mate meant by "he asked her out"

what did he actually do? what did he say? or how did he say it? or where?

was it like "will you go out with me" im really lost to be honest

if i was ever involved with a girl like that it would never occur to me to "ask her out" id just have no idea what to do or say,

god im hopeless..
any help?

IrishEyes19

this post a little confusing to me, op, but I'll do my best.

Now Im a guy but from a girls perspective if you mean asking her out as in going on a date, he'd basically just have asked her directly if she wanted to go to the cinema, or for a drink some night.

and if you mean ask out as in make it official, he would asked her "will you be my girlfriend," or else sat her down and had a chat about where they were going. theres no black and white answer to this, everyone varies

HugoDrax

It's simple.
You go over to a girl you like and you strike up a conversation.
That's all there is to it.
When you are watching a game on the telly down in the pub do you end up talking about it with a stranger? Have you ever been on a train and started a conversation with the person sitting across from you just to pass the time?
The same principle is involved.