Guy stares at me but avoids eye contact?

[Anonymous]

There's a guy in my class and i said hi to him and he looked at me and said hi back. However, if i walk up to him to talk he just avoids eye contact. Now for some reason he's always been staring at me since the 8th grade when i wasn't looking. It's really weird because he can talk to other people easily including girls but with me he just goes all quiet. Last year his friends kept saying that he liked me and asked me out multiple times. I went to ask him but he sai that he wasn't staring nd that he doesn't like me. I still caught him staring at me in different situations later and he still couldn't even say hi right. He just kept looking down! A few years before I had kept telling him that I didn't like him and if anyone said anything they were lying or just spreading rumors. Now we're in highschool and he can look at me when i say something from across the room but he can't look at me when i'm by him. Also he avoids being by me sometimes. I don't get it. If he dislikes me so much then why do his friends keep telling lies and why does he keep staring when i'm not looking. He's usually really outgoing though. Help plz?

[KempisMC]

I will come out of the closet on this one, I have done this twice in my life , not to the extreme he does , but very close. 3 years in high school and even worse at work for over 6 years. The one that lasted 6 years , I never wanted to get caught looking at her , but I did , I caught each other so many times and I kept looking at her every chance I had ,, but one thing the guy has a major crush on you , I know I did , and I invited her after 6 years , only to have her tell me she had gotten engaged , I wished her the best , she has 4 kids and seems very happy , yet when she comes to my office , she might only need to come once a year or maybe none , but when she does , she acts out of character and to this day , she is the only one who at a receptionist type desk will stand beside my chair and put her hand on my shoulder ( she knows the staring/non staring game we played for 6 years , Who knows what it means if it means anything at all , but I'm over that now , Its certainly not about disliking you , Why can't he look at you when close, I mean this boy could be so madly in love with you, so infatuated , he's afraid you'll see it if you are close enough to stare into his eyes.

[Sublime45]

My guess? He's shy, don't let it worry you. It doesn't appear to have anything wrong with you. Shyness is quite common among men. Hell, sometimes I get shy talking to women myself.

[Anonymous]

He's probably too shy.

[Anonymous]

Lol this is so funny. I bet he stalks you online too... which is flattering in a sense.