Have you ever felt as though you were rejected by your crush b4 you could even confess?

Yea so a few years ago, in order make my classmate jealous i tried getting close to his crush. And guess what.. i fell for her as well ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
I liked her so damn much it actually hurt. She and I became really close friends and people who didn't know thought that maybe we were really dating.
I was soo close to confessing to her when things started to go south. She started avoiding me :) and things became seriously awkward between us. I started drowning in my insecurities and couldn't understand why she avoided me like that. But I was too scared to know the reason.

But one thing was clear 'she didn't want me to confess'. Maybe she didn't want me to confess and then get rejected and make things awkward between us ig. She wanted to create a distance between us and made sure to point out that we'd never be anything more than friends.
And now the distance has grown so much that we're practically strangers.(╯°Д °)╯╧╧