There's this girl I love in secret. For a number of reasons she is unattainable to me. I keep hoping to see some change in the future, but for now all I can do is wait. And torture myself.
She's in my music theory class. We see each other for a few hours every week over an intense study session with a teacher and another student. Very occasionally I drop both of them off at home and do small favors for them like copy exercice descriptions. Whenever I offer something, I always make sure the other guy in the class gets the same favor, so she might not think I'm treating her special. The other guy is really a nice kid, who deserves this same help. And money is not a problem for me, so the expenses are negligible.
But I really love her. Nothing shows she knows, but I don't dare underestimate female intuition. Maybe she acts like she doesn't know so she doesn't need to reject me.
My fear at the moment is to become too good a friend to be trapped in the friends zone. I keep my distances, but I don't know how to stay clear of it. Does anyone have anything sensible to say about this weird problem? What defines a friends zone? Why don't people (or girls, more to the point) want to start a relationship once you are in the friends zone?