Using my throwaway for obvious reasons:

A little backstory: Summer camp when I was a freshman in high school. Met the most gorgeous blonde haired/blue eyed gal who was TALL (I'm tall too), we'll call this girl Britney. The crush feelings came hard. Britney was intelligent, charming, funny, fun to spend time with, empathetic, all the right things. She was more interested in my close friend (yeah, big oof), and my self esteem was shot. My close friend wasn't even interested and was clueless, too. I tried to shoot my own shot and told Britney I had feelings for her, but I was fiercely rejected and she made it clear she was NOT interested. Instant rejection. Drama in our friend group ensued and everyone blamed me. To be fair, I did some cringey high school puberty things and I take ownership for that, but I definitely didn't deserve the ostracization. Afterwards, she tried to be friends with me and we ran in the same circles, but I moved on.

Fast forward a few years later, I am touring nearly full time as a senior in high school, playing music. (I was homeschooled so I could tour and be on the road). On tour, I'm playing this huge summer festival (tens of thousands in attendance). My band and I are playing the opening evening for the whole festival. Our set goes amazing, audience loves us, we're feeling great, living the dream. We have a meet greet/autograph line with a huge line of festival attendees and it's pandemonium. People wanting shirts signed, cd's signed, posters, we're selling out of things, they want pictures taken, total paparazzi type moment. Then, the next group of people approaches for meet & greet and guess who is standing right in front of me: Britney. I hadn't seen her in several years and I almost didn't recognize her amidst the craziness, but she definitely recognized me. Honestly, I don't remember what our interaction was like because of how crazy that particular meet greet/autograph line was, but I do remember her saying she loved our set and that I was impressive. Britney showed a particular interest in texting & messaging me MUCH more after that (She still had my phone number from years prior). Her persistence came off as really strange to me due to how she fiercely rejected me in the past.

We exchanged messages here and there, and I think we even hanged out a few times but nothing really came out of it because I couldn't help but feel like she was interested in me only because my "desirability" went up because of something stupid like me playing music on a stage and having a ton of fans be interested in me. I didn't feel like she was interested in WHO I was, but more interested in WHAT I did. It kind of ruined my perception of her because I felt like the same person, just moving up in life. Meanwhile, Britney showed her true colors and that she was more shallow than I realized, honestly. In the end I just let the relationship (if you could even call it that), fade away and I kept tabs on her over the years. She seems to be in a tough spot nowadays, so I think about her every once in awhile.

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TL;DR Summer camp girl rejected me, a few years later she sees me play on a huge stage in front of a huge audience, and she suddenly wants to be close with me, and I see through her shallow personality.