Girl[F/20] is convinced that I'm[M/20] strongly interested in her when I'm not and its caused an uncomfortable situation for me within our social group. Should I address her, the situation, or just leave it all alone?

The situation is kinda frustrating to me. There's this girl that I've known since 2 years ago. We haven't spoke much until recently of late last year in terms of being around the same group of friends. I got to know her a little bit better after talking for some time and I did develop an interest in her, but I found out she was involved with someone so I pulled back my interest for her. That being said, it still didn't mean that I had to stop talking to her at all because I did enjoy conversing with her about different topics and the like. That went on for awhile.

Now, the issue that comes up is that after talking with one of my guy friends, I found out that she thinks I'm like deep in love with her. She's slightly annoyed by it and feels like I can't take a hint. I'm also told she's weary around me because she doesn't want me to ask her out. And she's talked to pretty much the rest of the group about it, so now its just been some kind of running gag with me being the butt of the joke. And I feel personally offended by this because I've always thought that I was just being cool with her. Yes, I liked talking to her but I never asked her out or anything. I don't even remember complimenting her or making a pass at her ever. It also makes me feel bad because I was actually trying to do the thing people think guys cant do and that's just be platonic friends with a person. But to make me out to be some love struck puppy and probably have a laugh at my expense behind my back? Gotta say, 0/10, wouldn't recommend.

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So now I'm wondering what should I do, if anything? I'm partial to just not talking to her or any of them anymore. That'll clear up all this mess in one go. But I also want to be mature and try to address the situation, but I feel like its hopeless at this point.

Tl;dr Girl thinks that I'm in love with her and made me the butt of the joke of our group.

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 10:17AM by itsaflop99 http://bit.ly/2GRzqVt