He suddenly wants to talk to me again?

[maybeTransparent]

I'm sorry if this is a bit long, but I have to get into some back story before the actual question. About a year and a half ago, I used to be friends with this guy. We'd playfully tease each other, and talk on aim regularly. Although, our conversations were pretty shallow, but that ended when he got a girlfriend a little over a year ago. I was kind of upset that he'd suddenly stopped talking to me, and I admit to having a bit of a crush on him, but I got over it. Over the past year, we used to kind of talk during school, and we'd still joke around, but we pretty much stopped being friends.

Fast forward to today. His girlfriend broke up with him a month ago, and it hit him pretty hard. Around a week and a half ago, I decided to check on him to make sure he was okay, and since then he's been iming me everyday. Our conversations themselves have gotten somewhat deeper and more mature than the ones we used to have. I suppose that could be due to the fact that we're older, but he didn't really seem to change otherwise. He also apologized for how he acted last year, twice, has been complimenting me, and said he'd like to go see Scott Pilgrim with me. Maybe I'm jumping the gun a bit, since it's only been a week and a half, but it's kind of strange how he's acting uncharacteristically nice to me. Have any ideas?

[ScepMan]

He probably likes you, or at least that's how I see it. With that said, though, I don't get the feeling from your story that he's just interested in you because he just had a breakup; rather, he most likely had a crush on you before, and once he found another girlfriend he avoided you for fear of bringing back those feelings while he was involved in a different relationship.

[maybeTransparent]

I used to think he liked me too back then, but I remember that he told me last February/March that he didn't, which is partially why the whole thing is so confusing.

[ScepMan]

Obviously if he knew you were in a relationship at the time, no guy is going to admit that they like you (well not unless they want to be known as a major creep) so that pretty much makes sense. There's a girl I really like who's a good friend of mine, and she's involved in a relationship at the moment...even if she asked, there's no way I'd admit how I felt about her as long as she's dating someone else!

[charrypie]

i think he likes you give him more time to get over the break up of his girlfriend though :S