I am at a loss. Did he ignore me because he thought I was straight, or was he losing interest?

Akrafinski
So, the past couple months or so, this guy I work with (different departments) and I have been doing this back and forth flirting thing. I, admittedly, have no clue if he’s straight or not. He has never mentioned a girlfriend or a boyfriend. Even though I am gay, I am not out at work. I always hang out with a girl and that has a lot of people at our work thinking she and I are together.

At the start, this guy would stare at me when we’re on break, and when I notice and look back, he would start to blush. One day I almost ran right into him while pushing a pallet jack, and when I noticed I instinctively cursed out loud. He just gave me this really corny grin and kept going. The thing is, there were a couple times where it seemed like he wanted to say something when we were alone but he never did. He doesn’t seem like a shy guy either, because when I was talking with a coworker at the end of the day one day, he looked at my coworker and then looked at me, and just said “I hope you have a good night.”

The most confusing part to me is that out of the blue, I stopped seeing him. We take our breaks at the same time, and we would always see each other at the end of the day. I initially chalked it up to him taking time off because his department has been dealing with a lot of problems. One day we ended up going on break together, and when I sat down near him he just got up and walked out.

I took that as meaning he was avoiding me. So I stopped really caring about him (would still look over at him and what not out of habit). But just the past couple days he’s started back up again. I’ve noticed it’s only after I wore this really flamboyant shirt that has the rainbow flag on it. He stared at me for the first time in almost two weeks when I was wearing it. And today, I saw him staring again. When I saw him this time, his face got beet red and he gave me a little nod. At the end of the day, he saw I was talking with a bunch of other guys and said he wished us a good night.
I am at a loss. Did he ignore me because he thought I was straight, or was he losing interest?
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