Thoughts

Well....Here's the story.
I met a really nice girl here. We talked for a couple of months. Things were going really well. Then she decided we could meet live.Of course I was happy. I got to know her trough her messages and I thought she was excatly my kind of girl. I was so happy when we finally met.We went out a couple of times; icecreams, cinema,walks in the park, and so on... And I was under the impression that everything was going great; until one day I wrote her one message. Nothing serious, just two words that didn't mean much (at least that's what I was thinking when I wrote it).Suffice to say, she wasn't very happy. Then she said that she can see me as a friend, and nothing else, and if I hoped for something more than that, she wouldn't want to hurt me if she gave a false hope. So I said that I don't have any romantic feelings towards her...But I do have feelings for her, and it's tearing me apart. On the other hand, what was I expecting? Good things like she was do not happen to guys like me. So what should I do? Not sure myself. But I know one thing, and that's that I don't want to lose her at least as a friend...