<human>: Can you summarize the given text in a few sentences?

A week before I went back to school for the fall semester, I asked the girl I liked if she wanted to get dinner when we got back to school. We met our freshmen year (last school year) and became great friends. Over the summer we had been texting and skyping a lot and I was pretty confident she had feelings for me. However, when I asked she was very surprised and needed time respond. After a day she texted me that she couldn't because she had never thought of me as anything other than her best friend. She wanted to keep things the way they were. This wasn't what I wanted to hear.

Life went on, and after a few days I decided not to lose the friendship with her and started texting her again about other things. We have been back for four days and since, we have seen and hung out with each other at least once every day. We have eaten with other friends together, went book shopping together, and even applied for a job together. 

Every time I am with her, I have knots in my stomach. I understand that she rejected me because she never thought of me as anything other than one of her best friends, and yet I can't get over her. How do I proceed from here? Do I distance my self from her and move on? Or, do I ask again, but somehow differently. Honestly, I would prefer to do the latter but have no idea how to make her look at me any other way than a friend. 

If you would like to know more about myself or her, just ask. I just don't think it needs to be in here making this post any longer. Thanks for any and all help you can give me.
<bot>: Asked a good friend out on a date, got rejected. Now I am looking for help to ask her out again because I cant get over her.