Girls at work likes me, but I don't like them!

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I have yet another quandary...ugh. There's this new girl who just started yesterday. She's nice enough, I think she'll be easy to work with. However, I couldn't help notice that she was flirting with me. I'm usually horrible at picking up on girls' signals, but this one was laying it on so thick I couldn't help but notice.

She was asking me all sorts of personal questions about my life, laughing at my bad jokes, saying i'm cute, and even went as far as trying to see if I was ticklish. This was very uncomfortable to me, I really don't like to be touched. I get uneasy hugging family on holidays, it just feels unnatural to me for some reason. I told her I don't like to be touched, but she continued and said I was cute.

I was getting extremely frustrated and eventually told her she was annoying me. She finally backed off, but I still think I'll feel awkward around her. I don't mean to sound shallow, but she is quite overweight and I'm not attracted to her even in the slightest. She has a cool personality but I would never take it further than a simple acquaintance from work.

There is also another girl who tries to flirt with me at work too, but she has a boyfriend. She constantly talks about her sex life with her boyfriend, and how she isn't satisfied. She also asks a lot of questions about me and regularly mentions she needs a hug, which I never give her. I sometimes feel plain awkward, and am at a loss for words.

I'm not trying to boast by any means, I'm actually no too experienced with girls. I don't know why i'm attracting these girls! The only thing I can fathom is that I speak my mind and generally don't care at all what others think. I also just try to be nice to everybody I meet, and maybe they're taking it the wrong way? I joke around a lot so maybe that is being misconstrued as flirting? I don't know!

What should I do? I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings...how do I tell them I just want to be friends?

Life goes by in the blink of an eye.

When you wake up tomorrow, this will all be forty years in the past.

How will you feel about it then?