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TIFU by accidentally revealing my coworker's crush in front of the whole office

This literally just happened an hour ago and I'm still cringing so hard I want to disappear. I work at this small accounting firm and there's maybe 15 of us total. We're all pretty close and joke around a lot.

So there's this guy Kevin (late 20s maybe?) who sits near me and he's been acting weird lately. Like he keeps asking me about my desk neighbor Amy, what she likes to eat for lunch, if she's dating anyone, stupid stuff like that. It was pretty obvious he had a thing for her but Amy seemed totally oblivious.

Today we're all in the break room for someone's birthday cake and Kevin's being his usual awkward self around Amy. She's talking about how she's thinking of dyeing her hair and Kevin just goes "you'd look good with any hair color" which was sweet but also cringe. I thought I was being helpful by nudging him a little.

So without really thinking I said "Kevin you should just ask her out already, we all know you have a massive crush on her." I meant it as like a friendly push but the entire room went dead silent. Amy's face turned bright red and Kevin looked like he wanted to crawl under the table.

Amy mumbled something about needing to get back to work and basically ran out of the room. Kevin followed her and I could hear them having this awkward conversation in the hallway. I think she was trying to let him down easy but I couldn't really hear everything. Now I feel like absolute shit because I basically forced this whole situation when maybe Kevin wasn't ready or maybe Amy suspected but didn't want to deal with it. The office vibe has been weird all afternoon and I keep catching people looking at me like I'm some kind of drama starter. Kevin came back to his desk and hasn't said a word to me. Amy's been avoiding eye contact. I texted Kevin saying I was sorry and that I thought I was helping but he just said "it's fine" which clearly means it's not fine.

I honestly thought I was being a good wingman but now I'm wondering if I just made everything worse for everyone. Like maybe some things are better left unsaid? But also isn't it better to just be direct about this stuff instead of dancing around it for months.

TL;DR I have no idea if I should try to fix this somehow or just pretend it never happened. Either way I definitely fucked up.

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