So I’m in college and trying to make new friends and back in March, I met this girl in one of my classes who seemed really chill and kind of similar to me. We had a lab together so after the first day of class we got assigned into different groups but out of class we only talked once or twice so we were more like acquaintances. But during class, sometimes I’d catch her looking over at me a lot to see what I was doing or sometimes if the prof made a joke she’d look at me and laugh or try and see my reaction even though we were pretty far apart and in different groups. So I was like maybe she wanted to be friends.
After the quarter ended, I DM’d her on Instagram asking if she wanted to get coffee or boba sometime over the summer since we’re both from the same city. She responded super enthusiastically and said “I WOULD LOVE TO!!” and thanked me for asking, but said she was busy until July. I replied that I’d be free after July because I had summer quarter until then and she left that on delivered cause I think she has her read receipts off so I just left it alone after that.
Then in August, I posted a video of me singing a cover (I hadn’t posted in like 6 months), and she replied to my story out of nowhere saying “U ATE SO HARD” and “BRO UR SO GOOD AT SINGING.” I just said “aww thanks girl ur so sweet” and didn’t think too much of it.
A week later, I decided to follow up and ask if she was still free and wanted to hang out before summer ended but the next morning she deactivated her account for a few hours, then reactivated it and removed her profile pic and all her story highlights. Now her profile looks completely blank, but she’s still following me and I still follow her and I can see she’s still active and liking other people’s posts and things like that.
I checked that she didn’t block me or restrict me or unfollow me or anything like that and I saw on LinkedIn that she started an internship recently, so maybe that’s part of it… but the timing is so specific that it kind of feels like I made her uncomfortable.
I just don’t know what to make of this like is this her way of saying she’s not interested? I can’t tell if this is just like two things that happened to happen at the same time but have nothing to do with each other or should I just ignore her in person and pretend like she’s a stranger? Cause I’m not one to double or triple text someone I don’t know.