Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I think this is going to be a bit of a long post, so sorry for that, I just want to provide as much context as possible.

Throughout my undergrad/highschool I never had the confidence to ask women on dates, however I have had a girlfriend and have been with a few other women, I had just never made the first move (girls would either kiss me at a party or ask me to hang out). Last summer I worked with this woman who was absolutely beautiful (like the most attractive person I have ever seen in real life), I wasn't really interested in her initially because a close friend had past away (in hindsight I was probably depressed). Near the end of last summer I started talking to her and realized she was actually incredibly cool so I asked her on a date (for the first time ever), though I didn't explicitly use the word date and looking back at it now I think she might have thought I just wanted to spend time together platonically. What happened was were just speaking after work and she told me a really cool story about what she did that past weekend and I kinda thought (in my head) "fuck, she's actually awesome I want to get to know her better" so I said "lets go get ice-cream and go for a walk Wednesday", she said she couldn't Wednesday but asked if we could hangout Friday after work instead. I'm mentioning this all because I thought the fact that she wanted to spend time with me one on one, just hanging out and not doing anything specific, made me think that there was a solid chance that she was attracted to me last summer, furthermore she definitely did a couple things throughout our three months together that to me seemed flirty. We ended up not getting ice-cream on Friday, and I took her canceling on me as her not liking me; I only found out this past summer through a friend that she actually had a legit excuse (family emergency). About a week after her canceling that "date" (not really a date I guess, I just wanted to get to know her better before leaving) I flew across the country for my senior year of university. We spoke a little on Facebook, her apologizing for not being able to get ice-cream and telling me we should when I get back in town which again I took as a bit of a good sign (she reached out to me, not the other way).

Fast forward 13 months to a week ago and I run into her on the way to class (I'm going to grad school and she's in her senior year at the same college). I'm hugely embarrassed about how I acted, but I here it is. We both are in a meeting together (brief meet up from our internship, not really important to this story) and then I leave to head to class, she calls out my name and I stop so we can walk together. We make casual small talk about what out plans are and then get into an elevator together (I totally recognize that this is the worst place to corner a woman and ask her on a date and what I did was pretty uncool).

I kinda just phase out for about 1-2 seconds looking at her, I know its a clique to say that I got lost in her eyes, but thats honestly what happened.

She looks at me and says "what?"

It just kinda slipped out and I said "We should go on a date". I wasn't planning on saying that, but I did.

Surprisingly she didn't say yes or no instead she just said "Why?".

This was a total curveball for me and at the time I didn't know what to say so I said maybe the worst possible thing, which was "Well I'm going to be back in \[city name\] for the next little while". What I was trying to say was that I thought she was attractive in every possible way, and that now that we will both be living in the same city long term (instead of me just being there for my summer breaks) I would like to get to know her better.

Then she said "Well I guess we could meet for coffee", but the way she said it made it sound like she was somewhat uncomfortable/ didn't really want to to.

I didn't want to put her in an awkward position so I just said "No worries, just take it as a compliment"

Then a couple more people got in the elevator and I just kinda stared of into space, looked at the time and said something irrelevant like "well, sorry you're going to be late for class" and she responded awkwardly with something like "its fine".

As soon as I got out of the elevator I was full of regret, she had told me that she had never been in a relationship the previous summer, and being as pretty as she was I would imagine she would have to turn down guys every week. I started to think (and spoke to a friend about this) that she was probably just feeling awkward about me asking her on a date and that she wanted to get to know me a little better than going on what I imagine would have been her first "date", especially considering that I hadn't spoke to her for more than two hours over the past year.

The bright side was I new that I would run into her the next day, so I thought really hard about what I was going to say. I was going to say something along the lines of "I'm sorry for surprising you like that, you know as well as anyone that I don't have much of a filter sometimes, if you're still interested coffee would be nice."

But when I tried to talk to her, maybe the worst possible thing happened. Her and I plus three others were talking at a work thing (little thing for all the past interns again, not really important).

I lightly touched her on the arm and said "can we talk for a second?" and she said "No.".

Again this was totally surprising and I didn't know what to think, I still can't understand why she wouldn't give me a minute (in a public place) to just let me briefly clear the air.

So then I said "I just wanted to say sorry" and she said "its ok" and I said "I'll see you around" and left.

A week later I saw her at a conference, I didn't approach her and she didn't approach me (obviously). I don't think I will ever see again (outside of in passing).

TLDR: Asked a girl I knew on a date, she said "why?", I decided to reject her offer to meet for coffee, I approached her a week later and I think she's afraid of me now.

Sorry for the essay, I do feel bad about this, I would appreciate if the criticism could stay constructive.