Guys, what do you do around the girls you like that you wouldn't do to your girl friends?

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I've been friends with this guy for several months, and I really like him. Before we met, I didn't have a lot of guy friends, so our relationship developed kind of fast and randomly. Our whole class LITERALLY OUR WHOLE CLASS thought that we liked each other. I did believe that he liked me, but I don't think so anymore because he liked someone else.

He's different to me compared to the way he is around his guy friends. That's expected, but he's way different around me compared to anybody I've seen. With his guy friends, he tries to impress them, you know, the typical guy who tries to fit in. With me, he's sincere and sensitive. He trusts me a LOT. He told me who his (now former) crush was weeks before he told his best guy friends. Once told my girl friend something he said that was really sincere, and she said, "He doesn't seem like that kind of person." It's like I see a side of him no one else sees. He even told me that I was his best girl friend, and one of his best friends in general. Once, my girl friend called me by my really stupid-sounding nickname. He didn't know that she calls me that often, and he said, frowning, "Please don't ever call her that again." So I guess he cares about me a lot, I just don't know in what way.

He's also different to me than to other girls. He doesn't have a lot of friends who are girls, and I'm still surprised that we became friends because he seems to find a lot of girls annoying, but not me. He told me of times when some girls liked him and he was disgusted, like "It was so weird because she'd always try to flirt with me, and I was thinking, 'go away!' . . ." Days after he said this, he found out I liked him. (Now he doesn't know I still like him.) It didn't bother him. He didn't get awkward, ignore me or anything like that. In fact, it was often he who would come up and talk to me, make eye contact in the halls, try to get ME to laugh at his stupid jokes, and he wouldn't walk away or shrug it off if I flirted with him, and he knew my intentions because he's the one who figured it out in the first place.

I know we don't have a normal friendship. You might think that he's like this because we're so close, but we're not that close. He's my best guy friend, but not my best friend, and I've known him for just two months. I think our relationship is so flirty. I don't know if it's typical for guy/girl friendships to be like this.

I'm confused as to how my friend sees me - does he have the simple intention of being friends, or could we be more? So, answer me this, guys: Is it normal for guys to act like this around girl friends, not girlfriends? What do you say and do around your girl friends that you wouldn't do around the girls you like, and vice versa?
Guys, what do you do around the girls you like that you wouldn't do to your girl friends?
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