An acquaintance of yours asks why you act so strangely around her. She seems a little hurt, and is worried you hate her or something. And the truth of the matter is that you have… well it wouldn’t be right to call it a crush, but you find her very beautiful and have been worried about making a fool of yourself. And it isn’t your intention to harass her or pursue her in any way, you’re not even looking for a relationship or anything right now, you’re just nervous around her for basically no reason, and she’s noticed and she wants to know if she’s done something to offend you.
What on earth is the correct thing to say?
What in the world?? Get out of your head. You want to be intimate with her or not? You think she’s beautiful so you get nervous around because you don’t want a beautiful person to think poorly of you, or you don’t want to mess up chances of being intimate with them, or you are nervous about telling them you want to be intimate with them? Just tell them you get nervous around them and go from there. If it’s a work setting be very careful. If not, just say you think they’re beautiful and you get nervous. Then decide if that’s how you want to carry the relationship forward or make a move and see how they feel about you.