Situation : Girl I've known/talked to for a few months and have a lot of mutual friendships with isolates me but I hesitate to escalate due to lack of IOI's (I know isolating should have been enough).

Question : What's the chance she was merely trying to manipulate me into being one of her orbiters by teasing rather than actually wanting to hook up? Feels like I should've just escalated but didn't in fear of rejection and face loss.

Asking this for reflection as our groups will be hanging out again soon.