Hi all.
So to make a long story short I asked out this girl and work after seeing what I thought were obvious signs of interest. We went out twice, but when I planned a third date she rejected me. She has her reasons and they are valid if not confusing. I tried to handle the situation with tact. I thanked her for her honesty, apologized should I have ever done anything to make her uncomfortable, told she she was awesome, and we agreed to be friends. She said she 'hopes we can still be friends' more on that later. Here the story gets strange though. After the rejection I saw what I thought were more and stronger, signs of interest. I did not push, for various reasons, but she seemed really awkward around me after the rejection. Eventually she left for university, and she didn't even give me a goodbye. We had a month between her leaving and the rejection, so hopefully any bad feelings could have cleared.
It's now been 8 months of no contact (though she was in school at this time) and I still think about her. I do genuinely miss her, she was a lot of fun to be around. I still have feelings I just want to be honest, but I am confident I could be a good friend to her, and not let them get in the way. I am thinking of reaching out to her.
So my question is this, what gives? It was two dates, hardly anything? Was the 'hope' of friendship just a line? Why would she act so avoidant, and should I reach out to her?
