How do you navigate being friends after you choose not to date?

My friend and I decided to be more than just friends a while ago, and for a few weeks we were really happy. Just having a good time in general. But we didn’t really say we were dating. We’re in high school and we both know how temporary “love” in high school can be.
So yesterday we were talking and I cracked a joke because she was messing with me, telling her it was like dating ( insert inside joke I can’t really explain) . She started teasing me, saying that i had called her my girlfriend. I said nothing.
Later, once we were home, she texted me, asking exactly where our relationship stood.
We talked it out, and she told me she wasn’t really ready to call anyone her girlfriend. I also brought up something that had been on my mind, namely that i had known i was attracted to girls before her, and had felt for her much longer too, and that it was quite visible that I liked her a whole lot more than she liked me. She agreed saying she herself still wasn’t even sure she liked girls, and that she did care for me a lot but she wasn’t sure now if it was just as friend or something more. So we decided that for now, it was safest to go back to being friends, till she could figure out more.
Today in school was utterly awkward. She leaned in to kiss me, then pulled back, was extremely hesitant about even hugging me (which is something the girls at school do all the time) and told me she felt I had ignored her all day during lab, our last lesson of the day. And I guess maybe I had, because I felt extremely awkward.
How do you navigate being friends after having an odd not-really-relationship?