Please help me with this guy I like?!?

[Nounou]

Okay so there was this camp for 6 days,and I got to know this guy (Let's call him dexter.)
I took his number on the last day (Which was saturday.)
And we've been chatting since then.. It's great!
I have the biggest crush on him!
BUT , problem is.. He lives SO FAR AWAY! We can agree to meet in a place in between my house, and his house!
I don't know how to ask him out!? (It's not gonna be a date though, we'll just hang out with some friends - We have no mutual friends though.)
I'm SUPER SHY so I think I'll wait until we get closer (:
He follows me on twitter as well...
How do I get closer to him on chat?! As soon as possible!!?
Thank you (:
Have an AWESOME day!

By the way, our first REAL conversation was on chat. (Sunday)

I sent him a message like 2 days ago telling him 'We should hang out more! If you'd like that'
He said 'Sure I would'
I don't want it to seem like I'm asking him out, I want it to be us hanging out with one of my friends, and one of his.. I want HIM to be the one asking me out on a DATE. (:
Thank you lovelies!
I think you got me wrong.. I don't wanna be boyfriend-girlfriend at all.. I just wanna get closer to the guy , and I don't know how to do that!

[Ali]

well to start off... dont rush it, thats a turn of ( at least to most guys ) Dont seem so desperate guys like a girl whos hard to get. Try to be the more jokeing type, humor always get them. And just see how things go from there. Dont try to hard either as in dont text him like every secound dont text back so early.

[Halimesh]

I think, that if you just met the guy, then it would be fine to just be friends. Your asking for a bit much to be BF&GF. I think you should give it time, you can go hang out with him, there's nothing wrong with that, but you really need to have some background history on this guy. You don't wanna know him for a few weeks, then go out with him. That just doesn't look right. My point is that you barely know him, and a week of knowing him isn't nearly long enough for a successful relationship (or at least in my opinion)

[Joseph Fitzgerald]

How far away?

[Brandi]

Well if you don't wanna be bf and gf than i don't see why it would matter who asked who out and who else came along.. if that's all your worried about, i just got close with a guy, and i portrayed him, and i asked to come watch a football game with me and the fam, ( because we're just friends) and after that he's asked me to dinner, and now a movie tomorrow. Its all about how you approach it, and confidence is key! so don't be afraid to break out of the normal cat and mouse game. If he wants to get closer as well, he won't consider you asking him to hang out a big deal. Good luck!