Is she afraid of being hurt or not interested?

Anonymous

There's a girl who I like, She has told me before that she's not ready to get emotionally invested and because we work together she's worried that things will messy or complicated and doesn't want to mix her personal and work lives.

She is incredibly stubborn and acts like I'm not in the room 90% of the time, however she always gets me small gifts, such as a cake, or a soda etc. We've began flirting recently over text quite heavily, with her saying she wants me to take her dress off or get into bed and cuddle etc, but just can't bring herself to meet outside work or work nights out.

She's had quite a tough time recently and was kinda rude to me one day when I asked her a question. However when she got home she sent me a massive text apologising for being a bitch etc. Her texts have become very frequent, gives long responses and will keep the convo going. Her friends have started talking and they tell me she's afraid of being hurt and letting me in so she's keeping her guard up, but despite her tending to ignore me at work, her getting me little gifts, or texting me all night, or the fact we've kissed and she's flirting etc are signs that she likes me and she just needs time to slowly come closer like a scared cat.

The other night she went out clubbing with friends and began texting me. She pretty much spent like 2 hours texting me and she was clearly quite drunk but said she was OK, and when she got home she sent me a text saying "thanks so much for caring about me x" and fell asleep.

Yesterday she was chatty on text but I was watching a film with my friend last night so I wasn't really able to have a convo and I apologised. I woke up this morning to see she read my text but didn't reply. Didn't think too much of it and then I text her a few hours ago, she replied and said she was just home from work but was going to bed and then left my response on read again. I'm really confused because I feel like she likes me, but now she won't entertain conversations atm

Is she afraid of being hurt or not interested?
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