girl I've been friends with for a year rejected me. we've been thru a lot together and she still stares. help?

[john]

so I got interested in a girl a year ago. We are both in high school. I started talking to her in December of last year and we seemed to hit it off well. we became friends, and I asked her out in February. she gave me a maybe yes maybe no answer. I got fed up with the games and in June I told her I hope I never see her again. After that I called her out on Facebook about her being engaged. she told me she didn't want it to be this way with me and that she felt bad. she asked me if that was what i wanted. i told her that that wasn't wat i wanted, that i wanted her to know i would've loved her and never would have hurt her. we ended up meeting unexpectedly in the summer. she said she was sorry and we ended up hitting it off again. she seemed into me. i gave her my number and she texted first. a few days later i said something that i regret and we didn't talk over the rest of the summer. when school starts again i told her that i was sorry and she accepted. December rolls around and she seems into me again. i tried to ask her out , but i kept chickening out. when i finally did, she said no because she felt like i was following her, which was just me chickening out of asking her and it being awkward. after i asked her, the school mediator got involved. i pretty much ignored her after he got involved. but i catch her and her friends staring at me now. she also seemed to follow me one day. is she interested in me in that way now? i do still like her more than a friend. me and her have been thru a lot together.

[Chris Sellick]

She's nervous and shy.She gets out of her comfortzone when she gets too close so she panics and then rejects you.She's rejecting herself so she's also paying for her wrong decision too.

You have 2 choices.Hang out with her,get to know her,make her feel comfortable so she gets used to you and feels comfortable with you.Or,you walk away knowing that she has a problem that she's stuck with.

I've been in your situation and many years later I know that walking away was the right thing to do for my own sake.