Friends both admitted we like each other but want to preserve friendhsip

I’ve known this girl all year, we’ve become really close and I feel like she’s the person I trust the most at the moment. We’ve made out about 3 times never acknowledging it and awkwardly avoiding the subject.
Anyway, this past week it happened again and I insisted we actually talk about this, we both admitted that we really liked each other but we’re too scared to say anything before. The problem is that we’ve both landed on the conclusion that we should stop and not go any further to preserve our friendship.
I’ve been finding this quite difficult because I can definitely see a change in how we interact since we’ve spoken (prolonged eye contact, heightened teasing etc) and I still can’t get her out of my head. I know she’s too shy to say anything else but I feel like we maybe have jumped to the wrong conclusion, please any help would be greatly appreciated!