I've been wondering "does-she/doesn't she" with a girl from my course who I've been friends with over this academic year. We do get on well and work well together and have fun in each other's company. However I'd never really picked up any distinct signs of flirting from her or any non-verbal signals of interest. After a bit of thinking at the start of the holidays I thought when we come back it might be worth saying something, although it would be a gamble because if she rejects me, I don't think we would have the same kind of friendship as we do now - we'd be friends but she would probably distance herself a little bit.
She emailed me a couple of weeks ago asking could I send her some file we needed for our coursework. I sent her the file and a reasonably long email telling her what I'd been up to in the holidays so far etc. She didn't reply which I was a bit disappointed in, but I never read too much into these things.
So 3 days ago I texted her asking how she was getting along and what she was up to. No reply to that one either.
Now I'm changing my mind about telling her I like her because I feel it would be futile just creating an awkward situation for nothing. Much as I try to cling to hope, I think if I'm honest with myself, when a girl likes you, she wouldn't ignore an email and a text. I doubt she's done it to spite me but I get the feeling it's been filed away in her mind on the "to do list" - "oh yeah I need to get round to mailing him back sometime". It doesn't particularly sound to me like this is a girl who's interested in me.
I've tried to think back and she's never ignored me before, we normally text each other quite often and we see each other every day in uni, recently she's started coming round to mine to work on projects and we have a good laugh there. It is the holidays but I expected us to keep in contact, we did over Christmas. Any comments on the situation appreciated.