I am naturally cocky funny and have been told by several female friends that i am not gaming that they "love me"

Usually I just laugh this off as i am not interested, but recently a HB8 that is in my friendship circle has said this to me, my usual response is to say not as much as i love you, the HBs love it we live our lives.

But this HB8s response everytime is "no i love you more, its impossible for you to love me more"

Now the problem is sometimes she clarifies the "love" as "friends or like a brother" but other times she compares us to love stories.

For example i am thinking of a career change and she said if it did happen we would become like the film Dear John and that she would not be able to cope with me not in her life.

I have done the kino escalation and she gives of a ton of IOIs but then slams the door shut with "we are great friends" even though on a drunken night she has told me never say never.

I'm guessing my question is do I continue trying to game her or just bin her off and continue as before as she is just doing this for an ego boost. Bearing in mind she is not short of male attention?

freeze her out, go after other girls, let her have a reason to miss your attention, then re-introduce your frame as sexual, if she still wont buy into the sexual frame and continues with the FZ shit, just focus on fucking her friends.