Ok, so for the past 9 months, I've known this one girl. Just in the past 2 months, we started to actually talk and we became friends. I then developed feelings for her because she is great, nice, good personality, and good-looking. From our texts, I interpreted her signals as being that she was interested in me as well. So, 3 weeks ago, I asked her to the school dance. This is where the story starts.

Once I asked her, she told me one of her other guy friends asked the night before. However, she did not say anything to him as well as to me. She told me that she would let me know tonight via text if its a yes or a no. She looked around a lot, barely kept eye contact with me, and was just shocked. She told me "Why didn't you ask me earlier?" and that was one sign that I'm sure she'd say yes to me.

So after school, I patiently wait. It finally comes down to the moment. She said she doesn't want to pick between us, and so she rejected us both. We later came down to the point where she did not have the same feelings for me as I did for her. So from then, we became friends.

At the school dance, I planned to ask her to dance during the slow music. My feelings for her slowly decreased. But when it started, she already started slow dancing with the other guy that asked her to the dance too. I was hurt, jealous, and just couldn't control all of my feelings. I knew that if I wanted to be her friend, I couldn't do that. But later, I eventually got to slow dance with her 3 times and the rest of the time it looked as if she grinded with this other guy that asked her.

Now we came down to the point where she told me that she did not like this guy anymore as a friend for "not letting go of her." I thought, ok, he did something wrong. But later, she said that they have talked about it and she decided to remain friends with the other guy that asked. Now I'm stuck.

I've always been nice to her, helped her when she needed him, and helped her get the grades she wanted. I asked her for help one night, and she never returned it. She felt bad but it didn't seem like. But for all the times we texted, I was the only one starting convos. She never starts them herself. She says she wants to be just friends and that she does like me as friends.

Point being now is that I'm slowly trying to evaporate my feelings for her. It's been going down, but I still constantly think about her and waiting for my time to hang out with her. I don't know if I will get over the rejection or not, so I need your advice. Should I move on and end the friendship because of my feelings still present, or wait? But then again, why wait if she doesnt make an effort to being as honest as she can with me and not starting conversations?

Thank you.