This will probably be hard to figure out because I'm bad at explaining this but I'm trying.. I'll refer to my crush as "her, they, she"

I've been friends with her since 6th grade (now in 9th) we have the same interests, pretty much everything if you where to meet us. Now that we are in 9th grade we grew really close to eachothers and I started to go over to her house now. Her family and our friends are always saying things like "you guys would be a great couple" and "I ship it!" So we adventually started to go along with it as a tease. I.. ended up actually developing feelings for her now. When ever we are alone she says things like "we would never actually be together" "I've only liked one other person" "I don't want to date another friend ever again" "I still like the (friend she dated)" "we are only pretending to date" "I'll never have those kind of feelings for you, you know that, right?" And so on. Everytime she says something like that it just really hurts me. I'm just hurting period. Seeing her has become painful. Thinking of her has become painful. I'm not shy, that's not the reason why I'm not telling her. I'm scared. Scared that she'll grow distant if I tell her. Scared she'll look at me different. On the 17th it was my birthday, she.. was the first friend that took me out for my birthday. No other friend has taken me out, period. When ever I leave her house I instantly feel hollow. I NEED her to feel happy? Normal? We also roleplay.. and one of her characters ended up liking mine. We plan on cosplaying the duo.. and we have been discussing what we will do and some of our 'poses' we thought of have been ones where she's trying to kiss me or we are kissing. ( not actually kissing, just making it look like) I don't know how I will act when it comes to this. I don't even know how much longer I can pretend to be with her, or pretend to not have these feelings.

>> If I were you i would just told her about my feelings. She can after all avoid you or be shy when she will be near you, but you will know what she do with this information and the most important, you will be free with your heart, it won't be hurt like this anymore, and life show what will be next with you. :)

Jeez, she have feelings for that other guy cause hes more worse then you, womans dont need nice guys or shy ones they just need assholes, guys who dont give a fuck, i just say the truth pal and dont even think to tell her about Your feelings, she will just abuse it. She will love you if your an asshole in a good way

>>2 she's not a shy person though, and is always painfully honest with everything. Never have I seen her try to 'beat around the bush'.

>>3 the thing is, she isn't all that interested in guys. The friend she dated was a Girl, and I'm also a Girl.. and she has never been one to abuse feelings or even hang around anyone who do that or are mean to others.

She just use the other guy speaking as pressure, to test you, its called shittest there TONS of them to counter them or get around them well is not easy, but if its for you she will be attracted, may she know already that you like her more then average and yea Bad for you sry but it is like it is. Mutade to a asshole /fucker or get hurt by such things. Thats my advice it helped me alot and it will help you, look in the inet about pick up you will lern things you can never imagine

Ok ok girl- girl then, so yea thats a thing i dont know but i which you the best

Hm.. I would try to hint your feelings a few times around her and see what she may say. Even a blunt "would you ever want to try dating me" could do it. You see, this is either a hit or miss situation. There's the possibility she may actually be interested in you and is embarrassed OR she really values your friendship and has become slightly aware of your feelings. If she really doesn't show any interest in dating you, do NOT confess. It won't just hurt you if she turns you down, but it'll also really upset her. And if she does say she's not interested. Well, that's gonna suck. You're going to be upset and you may even question your friendship with her. She sounds like a great person to be around, so just stay strong. Your feelings may change and you can still have the tight bond you once had.
I wish you the best of luck and no matter how things turn out, keep moving forward!

Just be you, keep moving forward and see how things play out. Hopefully things work out. I've always had bad luck when trying to date girls but hopefully this helps you from driving yourself crazy.