How to approach a hallway crush?

[clie208]

So, I kinda like this dude right now. He's a senior in high school, and I'm a junior.

So how I started liking this guy is through my friend. My friend, let's call her C, liked him first semester of this year, and she told me about him. I didn't know who he was, and his name is spelled way differently than it's pronounced, so I never found out. C stopped liking him over winter break cause she met someone else and moved on. During the second semester of this year, I was talking to my friend during class, and this really cute guy walked in. He forgot his calculator and was there to ask his friend in my class to borrow one. Of course, I wanted to know who he was, so I texted one of my friends about him, and through her, I found out that this was the guy C liked the previous semester. My friend thought that this was hilarious, so she told C, and C actually kinda shipped it. C's told me so many things about this guy that I've actually started catching feelings for him and have been trying to figure out how to approach him.

Thing is though, this guy doesn't know that I exist. I have AP bio the same time he has AP chem, and both of those classes are 1.5 periods, so we eat in the cafeteria for half a period and then head to class. I try to time it so that we're leaving at the same time so that I can walk in close proximity to him, but he either leaves chronically early or chronically late, so that's been challenging. I don't have a single friend that knows him well enough to introduce me (C hasn't spoken to him ever), so I'm kinda on my own (I do have his instagram though, and he follows me back), and from what I've heard, he's super introverted–definitely not one for small talk–but is polite and a nice guy. I would introduce myself (maybe not actually, cause I'm also kinda shy), but he has a couple of friends in my bio, and I would prefer it if they didn't know about this. Any advice on how I can approach him?

[SteveSmith1985]

I honestly enjoyed reading this. It reminded me very much of hearing stuff like this in high school. Thank you for the detail. It's excellent for detail (I mean that sincerely).

Since it's so good on detail already, that saves a bunch of back-and-forth, and I can keep this short (ish).

You are going to have to just talk to him (Introducing yourself would actually be just fine).

You don't have any other options open to you.

You can either come up with something ridiculously obvious to manufacture a "random" encounter (and that's just embarrassing, seriously. He's going to know exactly what you're doing)

or

You can do it head on, and just talk to him. (About anything).

If he might be interested, then that'll become clear; and now you have an excuse to talk to him, if you're able to catch him at the right time between class (a hard to time-guy... early AND late... that's gotta be frustrating).

You also, can now say hi anytime you see him, and its not weird to talk to him.

If you're not well received, you didn't ask him out or anything. You're just talking to the guy. But you'll be able to tell fairly quickly if he's not interested. (don't be thinking all negative. There's no reason to)

Sorry, there's no way around it. You're gonna have to gather your courage and talk to him.

After you do once, you're good. One minute of courage. You can do that. I hope you do. Good luck

🙂

[ottawahuman]

Hand him your panties with a hole cut in the crotch and a note that says "I hope I , are the hole big enough"!

[In_Trance]

Talk to him they way you'd want him to talk to you

[IHateBeingaMan]

very shocking question