Girl use the silence treatment for a month with me after I "declare myself" and now she's sorry
Hi, I'm an Italian students (26M) and I went out of Europe to study for 3 months thanks to Erasmus.
I went there with two girls from same university (we didn't know each other before). We became friends, especially with one of them. We had fun, we travelled in the country together and at the end of the study period me and the other girl we travelled alone to a city. Me and her were friends, we helped each other, we listened and opened ourself. After a while, in July I started to catch feeling for her.
When we came back home in July, I decided to ask her out on middle august. She said it was fine but why don't we invite even the other girl? I said that I'm fine with the other girl but I wanted to go out with only her (I didn't declare my intentions but it was pretty obvious). She said it was ok and she was going to tell me when she was free the next week because she had some things to do. She never replied for a month and I never texted her. I was very angry with her, you don't give the silence treatement to a person you shared a lot with like a baby.
After a month she texted me saying that she wanted to explain herself, she didn't expect me to declare myself since we were friends and she opened a lot with me. She said that it became natural for her to walk away since she was almost sure I was hitting on her but, if I wasnt, then she was more sorry. She also said that she felt a little hurt because she told me that everytime she thinks to make a genuine friend then the guy declares himself. I remember her talking about that and I told her that if someone catch feeling he has to declare himself, you cannot hide it. I said to her that my intentions were genuine and I was respectful and I was always sincere with her (I opened with her a lot). I never faked anything with her just to get her. I said that I understand her but she can not give me the silence treatment for a month. She said that she think I'm a great person and wanted to have the group of our three all together and don't lose ourself after our nice experience.
I said that the future will decide (I didn't want to say yes or not).
Now I don't know what to do. She's a good person. I think I would like to see again the group together (it will be once in a while) and maybe me and her as a friend. But I don't know if it's gonna work after what happened. Or maybe I should cut off contact with her. For the moment I'm fine like that, I lost 5 kilograms because of the huge crush on her and her silence hurt me a lot.
Thanks for the advice
P.S.
In the past I had a female friend and after 5 years of friendship she decided to end it without ever giving any explanation. Maybe friendship between gender doesn't exist.