Why would a guy ignore you if he likes you?

seasparkle
OK. Hopefully this isn't too confusing.

A couple of months ago I moved to a new state because I transferred colleges. I am now at a really small school (700 or so people), where you see the same people around a lot. There is a guy I met that lives in my building who is an Italian student, here for one semester. I began to get the impression that he liked me, and now 2 months later it is obvious to me that he does because of all these instances, though he has never flat out said he liked me. I also have never told him that I like him.

Late at night when I am on Facebook he will often ask me what I am doing, and then he will ask me to go to wear he is (usually in his studio working on a project, etc.) and I will hang out with him. Most recently I went to his studio and we watched three episodes of Prison Break in Italian and he translated for me. Whenever I hang out with him like this he will often look up at me, and then I will look at him and we will smile. He is also very touchy with me. He has never asked me out anywhere off campus though. He did just ask me the other night if I wanted to watch a movie, and we decided that we would sometime (not a theater movie).

Anyways, here is the problem:

I feel like when I see him during the day with a lot of other people around he acts differently than when it is just us two hanging out. He will hang around with other groups of people instead of coming over to see me, even though he knows I am there. I walked into the library today with my friend, and saw he was sitting at one of the table with someone working on something school related I assume, but he totally ignored me. I suppose technically I ignored him too, but I looked over at him to see if he would look back and every time I looked he was not looking. I don't think he looked at me once but I know he knew I was there. It is strange compared to how much he looks at me when we are alone. Then the guy that he was with left, and so he was alone (my friend and I were sitting at a table nearby), and I hoped he would maybe come over and say hi real quick as he got ready to leave, but he did not, he just left without so much as a glance.

I don't understand why he acts this way. There have been so many moments when things like this happen and I begin to convince myself that he doesn't like me anymore and I feel sad, but then he will do something to prove me wrong, and I will feel good again. But now I am back to feeling down, and it doesn't make sense! I over analyze ever little thing he does, and I automatically assume the worst, but I just can't understand his actions. Does he not like me?

I talked to a guy friend about the situation and he said that he was: talking to other girls at the school, playing hard to get, or he didn't want to get attached to anyone before he leaves. He leaves in January.

This friend told me not to confront him about being ignored because then I will seem over sensitive. Help! I don't know what to do.

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He knew I was there, he would be an idiot not to.

I have hard time believing that this is because he is shy, because he is a very social person.
Why would a guy ignore you if he likes you?
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