This girl (s) and I are between acquaintances and friends at my school club. Since she was a board member when I first met her, I would sometimes ask for access to the club building’s facilities. We never really talked that much but still communicated occasionally.

Sometimes she showed signs of attraction. When she and I were in the clubroom onetime - and I was talking to her - she stared into my eyes and it lingered afterward. In each case body was oriented toward me which is a sign of interest. Recently, she started complimenting me about the outfits I wore to school. And at an event she and I attended, we were splitting into groups when she asked which group she should join. The fact that she's now the president and can join any group shows it was an excuse to talk to me.

That night the signs grew more apparent. I texted her to ask a question about the event. After some brief exchanges of information, she kept continuing the conversation. She asked about my interests regarding the event. Then she asked about summer plans. She continued the conversation twice after it reached a dead end.

I realized that she liked me and asked her out. I asked when she was available for lunch. She said she'd let me know once she starts working. From reading pickup - but refusing to use it - I knew that she either had low interest or thought my time was abundant. I texted “it seems like your schedule is busy - mine is getting busy too, so we should do this another time. Immediately she responded "dammit your schedule is getting busy? (upset emoji) What about June 15?"

She asked personal questions after setting plans. She randomly asked how far I lived from the school. I knew that texting her more would put me in the friend zone, so I said, “30 minutes why?” That way she wouldn't ask additional questions and I wouldn't reveal too much about myself.

Later that night she shit-tested me. She asked, "can we change this to somewhere in the city.. or am I just over exaggerating lol?" Knowing that this was a shit test, I told her this was the only location that worked for my schedule. She agreed.

A few days later our date plans changed. We received an email about a promotion day for a company she is interning at. She texted she couldn't have lunch that day, however, she asked if I was free another day. When I was mid-way to responding to her text she asked if we could FaceTime the next day. I didn't know how to respond, so I just refused. She got upset as indicated by frown-face emojis but wanted to know when I was free. A few hours later, I agreed to FaceTime her.

Strangely, our initial plans were tracked via google calendar. She sent calendar invitations for the lunch plans. However, for FaceTime she never sent anything. I believe this was a hard to get technique to gauge my interest. Since I missed attraction windows in the past as a result of not asking her out, she didn't want to expose her full intent if I wasn't interested.

During the FaceTime "date" she appeared to be playing hard to get. I complimented her hair and she giggled immediately. She was always asking me personal questions such as where my family was from etc. She laughed at all of my jokes despite them not being funny. She never did this before. She kept the conversation going and filled dead silences. In one moment when we were discussing shows, she enthusiastically asked if I liked empire which I disagreed. She then changed her opinion by saying she likes it but isn't sure anymore (qualification). One time she mentioned having bad memory but remembered what I was wearing 5 days before. I called her Dory and she agreed saying she had a file on her computer called Dory. If she lied, she would be qualifying herself to me; if she's told the truth it she remembers what she finds important. Despite everything, she randomly mentioned an encounter on the street with a guy from her high school who complimented her. She she was happy but never pursued the guy. There were also times when she was getting things since she was going outside. However, when she came back she laid down on her side while giving full eye contact.

After FaceTiming her I tried setting up another "date." I texted her that we should do this again sometime to which she replied let’s keep this up.

After two days of no contact she texted me at unusual hours. It was 2am and she texted, "that Kanye album is some interesting stuff lol." No female friend has ever texted me past 12 to start a conversation. The subject of the text was also something I mentioned early in our FaceTime talk - which was 2 days before. I replied an hour later saying, "I thought you had bad memory were you lying to me (raised eyebrow emoji).

Strangely she didn't reply. In fact, the next day she was texting in the group chat but didn't reply to my message. This was the only time she didn't reply to my text. Granted, there’s a chance she fell asleep and forgot. But her never doing that tells me she used this as a technique.

Since I had low initial interest in her and ended up getting lost in mixed signals, I decided to put an end to this. I called her and said that I knew she liked me, but I wasn't interested in her and wanted to stay friends. She didn't chime in while I was talking which shows she was waiting for my response. When I told her, she repeated what I said word for word. She also created ridiculous excuses such as "come on ma118 we're 18." Another excuse was that she was sort of in something, but she thinks its one-sided. Irrelevant information is a telltale sign person is lying. She was also surprised that she gave a romantic vibe, yet she never gave these signs to me in the past.

A few days later she randomly texted me. She found a guy on LinkedIn with the same role as me and texted "who's coming for you (laughing emoji). 8 seconds later she sent another text saying, " I lied he graduated in 2016 I think." The fact that she screenshotted the photo, opened her messages, clicked on my name, selected a photo, typed a message, and selected emojis and realized 8 seconds later that she was wrong tells me that it was an excuse to text me. In a way I caught her bluff: she was too eager to text me that she forgot to think.