I Ruined a Possible Friendship After I Was Rejected

There was a girl from my highschool I was majorly crushing on during COVID. We had graduated, I was single, and found her on Tinder. I swiped thinking she wouldn’t even see it. Well, she sent me a Facebook message asking if I had swiped right, to which I admitted yes. I tried playing it cool, saying I was only trying to say hi, but would totally be cool with taking her out if she was interested.

However, she basically said she had just started talking to someone else, and wanted to see how it played out.

Me being absolutely embarrassed about that, and not knowing how to properly process that at the time, I immediately just ignored the message and the next day unfollowed and unadded her on everything.

Still regret it to this day, because she was such a nice person to me and one of the few people who had reached out after graduation. Have no idea how she’s doing, but I hope she’s doing well. But also, super glad I didn’t end up dating her because I was super emotionally unavailable and immature.