Does anyone mind if I curl up in a corner and die?

I am SO humiliated. I got an email today from CandyGirl. Turns out that one of my friends (who used to be her suitemate), who I asked about her - whether or not she was straight, told her that I was "stalking" her (which, in suitemate's defense, may have been a term I jokingly used). And so CandyGirl kinda flipped out and sent me an email, essentially telling me she's not interested and to back the hell off. I was simultaneously mortified and hurt and kinda pissed off. So I sent her an email explaining myself: that I was interested, but because I know she's straight I really just wanted to be friends now. I apologized for anything that could be construed as stalking and/or coming on too strong, and I explained that I am a social retard. I told her that the only reason I was asking around about her was that I didn't want to make her uncomfortable by asking her directly... I wanted to avoid making an ass of myself (too late, apparently)... and if I'd known that her ex-suitemate was going to tell her that I was stalking her, I obviously wouldn't have made the inquiry. Again, I apologized profusely for putting her in an uncomfortable situation, but I assured her that I was, indeed, not stalking her.

A few hours later (after skipping class in favor of a long nap to avoid dealing with everything... healthy coping strategy, I know) I received another email from her, apologizing for the harshness of her first one. She wanted to let me know that there are no hard feelings and that she thinks she overreacted and is sorry she didn't get my side of the story before unleashing her wrath on me.

So I emailed her back and basically just said that there are no hard feelings on my end either and that the fault lies on both sides and that if everything's not too incredibly weird now, I'd still like to be friends.

Haven't heard back from her yet, so we'll see.

I still can't believe this happened. I seriously just want to crawl into a hole somewhere and disappear.