Hi there,

I'll explain my situation really fast, I'll go into details later:

I've been in love with this girl for 6 months now, even broke up with my 10 year girlfriend for her, or sort of for her anyway...
I tried asking her out, it didn't work. I should point out, I'm French, and over here in rural France, dating is a little different... We don't ask girls out, for example, it's just not done... Don't ask me why, that's the way it is I guess.
She's extremely shy and extremely nice, 6 years my junior (I'm 31), and I keep thinking her behavior shows that she likes me, but then I get nothing.

She's incapable, I know, of making the first step, problem is I'm also extremely shy... But last week, I asked her if she was available to work on a project for our dance group that we were supposed to do together. She said sure, and invited me to her house. Of course, I was over the moon, I never expected that. She didn't have to, it came as a massive surpirse and yet she did. She knows perfectly well how I feel about her (you'd have to be blind not to see it) and she still invites me to her house!
Well anyway, I went there, we spent an amazing 5 hours talking about the project and other things. As I was leaving her house, I said "there's still something I want to tel you, but you already know what that is, don't you?" She changed the subject rapidly and repeatedly, to meaningless stuff. She was embarrassed, I know. She even told me she was so ill at ease she would turn into an ostrich (she was burying her head in her sweater collar).

But I still got no answer. I left, and I was so bummed out I decided to text her, and told her exactly how I felt (yes, the L word), saying I was sorry to embarrass her, asking her to please tell me something, a big fat no if it was her answer, or even a "I don't know" would have sufficed, if it was easier for her by text, Hell I don't know. She answered "Very embarrassed, yes... I'm gonna turn into a real ostrich. See you soon, bye!"

Now what the Hell does that mean? Yes? No? I don't know? What?

I'm crazy about this girl, and I think she's just confused and there's a small part of her that doesn't want to say no, but she's scared of something. Maybe me, maybe her past, maybe her future, her present situation, I don't know...

What do you guys think?