*Meet a girl and we get along well. I ask her out after about a year of knowing her, she rejects me, says she just wants to be friends. I stop speaking to her and move cities shortly after. After this we text about once every 6 months.

*18 months later while i'm travelling around the world, she texts me and asks me where i'm going next. I say I dont know and thats when she suggests we go on a 1 week trip together. I agree to go because I think it means she wants to date me now.

*On the first day of the trip I realize I'm wrong, amazingly she still just want to be friends. We're not doing anything beyond what friends do, anytime I try, she pulls back. I sadly accept whats going on and decide to just spend the rest of the trip as friends and move on after it over.

*On the last day of the trip she can tell something is bothering me but I refuse to say anything (since I know whats going on at this point - why waste time talking about?). Anyway eventually she cant take it anymore and she decides to say out loud whats going on and repeats that she still just wants to be friends. I already know this, but hearing her say it makes me mad and so I react very emotionally. I call her naive, I tell her that I can't be friends with girls at all when really I just mean her in this particular. She says, "it sounds like you don't want to be friends with me at all anymore", I say, "yeah, pretty much" and explain to her how "I don't have time in my life to waste trying to have things I know I can't have". I ask her why she thought it was ok to invite me on a trip after I had asked her out before and she says, "It was a long time ago, I thought your feelings had changed". She says she thinks its normal for a guy and a girl to just go on a trip like that even shes never done that with any other guy friend.

*Later that evening, realizing I had been too emotional, I apologize for calling her naive which she seems to accept and she apologizes for 'messing wth my feelings' and says 'I didn't realize how sensitive you were'. That last remark made me realize I had lost my cool and acted way too emotionally during the whole thing, even though I was hurt by it, i think I should have been way cooler and not shown it. Anyway, that's where we left it. After the trip we text for a like a day or two after but nothing since.

What do you think boys, its over right? I accept that at this point. But also, and this may sound crazy, I know for a fact that she will hit me up again. I still like her because we do get along well, I just can't hang around and pretend I don't want more. When she does try to talk to me again, how should I respond, reply.

Thanks for reading. Lee.