JH, you sound to me like a delightful young person. Ah, youth!!!

There's a whole lot that goes into conducting relationships and I don't think a person ever stops learning. But it seems to me an initial encounter such as your phone call (granted you had texted before) is sort of an exploratory mission, kind of finding out more about each other, seeing if and where you want to go from there. You will both have reactions to the encounter.

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got is rather than focussing on yourself and how terrified and awkward you feel is to try focussing more on learning about the other person; taking a genuine interest in them, finding out a bit more about them. It's not as if you're going to plow into the really heavy stuff right away. That would neither be appropriate nor realistic at that stage.

Best wishes and let us know how things are going!