It's easier for me to close the chat program than to run away in real life.
I remember back when I was a kid when this guy tried to ask this girl out, and the whole class was staring at the two when he was asking. The girl turned pink and I think with that kind of pressure, you don't actually do what you would want to do?
(It was also creepy because they were both 11. Ick...)
I mean, first of all there's a difference between doing it in person and doing it in public XD
Second, I'm not sure if you're talking about the person asking or being asked running away, haha. Either way though, for the person asking, it's better not to run away/close out of that sort of thing if you want to stay friends after that, because you're at least made to discuss it rather than pretending that it didn't happen, which wouldn't really solve anything. Unresolved tensions like that are awful, in my experience.
For the person being asked, running away/closing out is kind of just rude, really
