So I know this girl for a year now and she is part of my friend group. I never intended to date her so I think I’ve been friend zoned obviously as I never acted like anything more than a friend.

Just to get better at flirting, I took the opportunity and started flirting with her (playful teasing mostly). It went good. We did that for a while. At one point after she laughed about a flirtatious joke I made and praised me for it, I said something along the lines like “sure, I am naturally a bit of a flirt”, to which she responded “then I found my opponent”. I took that as a sign of interest and asked her out.

Today, however as I was again teasing her and all that, she said “I thought we were friends”. I am a bit confused. Should I move on?