I gotta say something, now that I came back to read this, and that thing is that I was on a similar situation as Godjo, I was pretty close with my crush and we started falling apart, so in one of our argues I said I liked her out of desperation of losing her, and my reality isn't like Gojo's, I got rejected and we never talked again, the situation was the same, he/me desperate for not losing her, and she mad/sad at he/me for something, and he/me blurted out feelings out of desperation, she had mutual feelings for him, she didn't have mutual feelings for me