I've been flirting with this girl who works at starbucks for a while now and I finally worked up the courage to ask for her number. I was almost positive she wanted me to ask her out but she told me she already has a boyfriend and acted like it was nothing.

Am I one of you now? Have I lost all hope in women after just one of them acts like she likes me just for it to be a story in my head? Is a guy's attention like a cigarette to these people? Has my mind been branded with the dark enlightenment of the incel? Is there no going back?