Confused and might have lost a friend, would NC work here?
I had a crush on a close friend whom I talk to daily for months and see quite regularly, but up until recently, she was seeing someone else. About three weeks ago we went together to her company holiday party as her +1. During the party we both had a bit too much to drink and we told each other we liked each other and made out. She came home with me that night and we left together the next morning as I was heading back to my school to finish up my exams. Before I got on the bus we reaffirmed what we had and we kissed goodbye. To me, it seems pretty clear that we are dating now, if not officially but at least seeing each other.
After my exams were over and I was back in town with her, we decided to meet up and go for Christmas shopping. I decided to ask her out officially. But she said no. This felt like getting blindsided by a truck. When I pushed for why, she told me she had a lot of stuff going on her life and she doesn't want a relationship with someone right now, especially her close friend (which at the time made sense as she will be leaving overseas for Grad school later on in the year for a couple of years). Knowing my history of getting hung up on girls that I like, she told me to not hang on in the hope that she will come around, and made me promise that. While I didn't like that answer, I thought at that time I have to respect it, but I told her I'm a stubborn person and I don't usually let something like this go easily.
It was yesterday, after talking to a common friend of ours, that I found out she felt what she did was just a drunken mistake and there was never any tangible feelings on her end. While admitting her fault in this she feels that there is nothing really she can do more about this. I felt devastated by this. What she told me was just supposed to be a nicer way of letting someone down. My friends told me to put her on No Contact, but to me, No Contact comes when a couple breaks up, which doesn't seem like the case here. Our friendship before this was definitely genuine, but now, it feels like there is a wall between the two of us. I don't care for dating her anymore because I see there are things that might never work out between us, but I do still want to have that close friendship connection back. Would NC where here?