Dating : Interesting Situation

Dating : Interesting Situation

So I have this girl in my college class that I liked, I would see her eyeing me from time to time, at first I didnt pay much attention but them I started feeling subtle hints, and naturally I thought she might like me.

One day, after class was dismissed I had to speak to the professor but he was preoccupied with another student who was sobbing about failing her exam. So I was just standing around waiting and then I notice that she is just sitting at her desk doing nothing, no phone, no notes, not talking to someone else, just sitting there, so after I spoke to the professor I turned around and saw she was no longer there. She had been sitting there a good 10 minutes, then I started thinking was she sitting there and waiting for me to approach… Now I should preface that I had not spoken to this girl at all before this and this was the 3rd week of classes. So 2 days later, I approached her and sparked up a bit of small talk, I asked her a question about her accent and she told me that she is from Iran « a majority muslim country ». And I am an Orthodox Christian (almost all armenians are). Now, Islam is a very strict religion when it comes to who you can be with and what not, just a general strict religion. So anyways, she told me she was full persian and I said I was full Armenian. After approximately 2-3 minutes of small talk, I politely asked her whether she would like to go out on a date tonight. She said that she couldn’t because she had things to take care of. So I asked whether she could do tomorrow. And she thought for a second thinking what she might have to do, and then she said I’ll see, I’ll let you know. So I asked for her number so that she could text me later and let me know about tomorrow.

About 30 minutes after getting her number, I text her and tell her that I look forward to seeing her tomorrow. About 2 hours later she replies saying that she is so sorry but she cant make it. Because she is « so busy » these days and that she « isn’t interested in dating »

So, like any curious human, I start to wonder why she would tell me maybe, hinting towards a yes to a date, and then flip around 2 hours later and tell me she isn’t interested in dating.

Some people I talked to tell me it is because she spoke to her parents and they told her there is no way she could go out with someone of my religion. Others say she just doesn’t want to date. So this is getting interesting right.

So, following the advice of someone close to me, I reply and ask her if she could honestly tell me if she doesn’t want to date because of our religious differences.

She replies « No it’s not religion at all, its just that I like someone else! »

So at this point I am just speechless! She was either hinting that she was interested in me the past few weeks or I was just an utter moron in thinking that she was.

Now I am just so amazingly confused, I can’t understand if I messed up somewhere down the line, but when I was talking to her she was pretty happy (now im not sure if she is like that with everyone, cuz I have only seen her talk to one other person). Or that she actually just doesn’t like me, or if she likes someone else, or in fact whether her parents actually forbade her from spending anytime with me.

If anyone has some answers or any advice I would really appreciate it, because I am simply and plainly lost in speech and in thought.