I've had this crush on this girl, and unfortunately the only way I know her is through her being a gym instructor in a class I take with her... which I know makes this very difficult for success on my end in this context... but I tried anyway.

She of course is naturally cheerful and bubbly to everyone -- this being somewhat her job -- but in recent weeks her behavior toward me I thought changed, she took more of an interest in how I was doing and even ran up to me once after a class, jumped, and did a "double high five" but then grabbed my hands and brought them both down, as well as singled me out on her own accord for a fitness assessment even though I had been doing those with another male instructor and had never brought the topic up to her before. Of course, I realize these can all just be natural things in the course of our professional relationship, signifying nothing as to a necessary personal interest on her end...

Anyway, I felt this great energy from her that I didn't before, so I decided to "take a chance" and just be bold and let her know my interest, even if she never had the thought before. The only advantage I could think of is that most of her clients are actually female (male/female ratio in these classes is like 10/90), so even though I *KNOW* she gets hit on, maybe it's not endless and so I thought to do something a little different...

I bought a pair of ticket to Stars on Ice (google it) and wrote her a letter, complimenting her and how she's had a positive impact, and that I would like to take an opportunity and take her to this show... I wrote that because of our professional relationship, if she doesn't think this is a good idea, she can just throw the tickets away, and I'll understand completely. Otherwise, she can get back to me for more (I leave my number)...

I know, I know... not orthodox. Anyway, due to crazy timing, she ends up getting the letter on the next class period at the exact time I'm arriving (I spot this out of the corner of my eye as I'm checking in, but she doesn't notice I'm even there yet... so I slink away and get dressed. My timing is impeccable :/). So I'm sure she's a bit shocked by it at the time, however she is *excessively* nice to me that class period.

She finds me stretching out on the floor by myself before class and strikes up a conversation, asks how I'm doing, what a great day it is, etc. Singles me out a couple times in class to encourage me, then as I'm leaving the door (I wasn't going to follow up with her until the next time if she didn't), she abruptly stops the conversation she's having with someone else to thank me so much for coming in and to have a wonderful night... and was *excessively* cheerful about it. Definitely NOT trying to avoid contact after the potentially awkward envelope she had just received.

So she definitely wasn't outwardly offput by my advance at least, at the worst I thought she could just be acting excessively nice so as to "soften the blow" of rejection... at best it might be the start of something good?

But that night, she doesn't respond to my phone (surprise). During her next class the next day, she uses the company email account (which is used by all the trainers there, so little privacy) to email me and thank me for the kind words, and without specifically mentioning anything about the event or the tickets (again, little privacy on her end), tells me "My Goddaughter is 5 and loves skating!  I can't wait to take her and get some 'godmom' points:)"...

Soo... what do I do now? I did say if she didn't think it was a good idea, she could throw the tickets away, but instead she accepted them... for herself? Did she just think this was the nicest way to resolve this situation without coming across as cold? But why wouldn't she just say "thank you so much, so gracious of you, but I really can't accept these tickets... you can take them back" if that were the case (they are expensive, unfortunately the price is printed right on the tickets, and it's still over a week away before the event)? By "accepting" them for her and her goddaughter, is she leaving a small window open for me to continue pursuing her, and that maybe I was just a little too forward too quickly... so I should try to get to know her better in other ways? Or is she trying to signal to me "thanks, but no thanks"?