<human>: Summarize the given text in a few sentences.

Throwaway plus first time posting in this sub, so sorry if mess some stuff up in the usual format for posts here.

I have been good friends with Kate (not real name) for about 9 months now and after about 6 of those months I began to develop feelings for her, and told her this. Turns out that she had also started to like me, but was afraid to tell me because she had gone out with a good friend before and it had not ended well.

Because of this, we didn't actually 'go out' or anything other than accept that we liked each other and left it at that. For another month or so after that we stayed the good friends we were before, but then she began to grow distant to me; she'd seem to avoid me in the corridor at school, ignore the majority of my Whatsapp messages even though I can tell she has seen them, and when she does reply she usually only says a couple of words at most.

At first I just thought that she was going through a rough patch at home so I left her alone and didn't bother her about it. But then after a couple of weeks I realised that it was only me she was acting that way to. We share several mutual friends, so I asked some of them if they knew about why she would be acting this way, but they said they had no idea. (I didn't tell them I had asked her out since I'm not exactly good at talking about that stuff, and I didn't want them to get the wrong idea)

I simply said stuff along the lines of:

"Kate seems to have been in a bad mood recently any idea why?"

Since then I have started 9 out of 10 of our conversations both on Whatsapp and irl, and in both she always gives short replies and leaves not long after. 

I want to ask her if she has a problem with me, but I just am not up to it and I don't want to put pressure on her or make her seem like its her fault, I just want to know why she has changed drastically over the past few months.
<bot>: Good friend who reciprocates my feelings but doesn't want to go out has been ignoring me for the past couple of months.