Why does he stare at me like this?

Anonymous
I can’t tell if I really want this guy to be interested in me or not but he does do some weird things. He’s very eccentric but intellectual.
We sit diagonal from each other in a giant circle and he always chooses to sit across from me. He pretty much mirrors me and he’s the first one to raise his hand in class. Every single time he answers a question from the professor he always will face me head on and start directly looking at me like he’s talking to me.
He’ll break our eye contact thing and briefly glance around the room or back at the professor but his eyes always land on mine while he’s talking. It’s very awkward but I do like it lol. Today I saw him crack a slight smile while he was talking and maintaining eye contact with me.
Also this girl asked a question and he turned to talk to her and look slightly at her and answer her question but then he faced me again and talked while looking at me like we were the only ones in the room lol.
I’ve been told I’m a very pretty girl often but men rarely approach me. I do have a guy I’m dating. Once the guy in my class and I got to class early and he said it would be nice to have a break kind of awkwardly to me and I then agreed and I told the guy i was gonna go call a guy I’m dating.
After he mentioned he had a long distance girlfriend who he’s never mentioned before and still never mentions her.
Today when we were having our little eye fiasco in class ( this happens often by the way ) I glanced down at his outfit and wanted him to see me checking him out. He had a picture of him on there and this some girl ( maybe it was his girlfriend but it wasn’t a romantic picture ) I glanced at it then made a face then looked back up at him and he was still making direct eye contact with me while talking.
I scan his whole body sometimes to check him out and I’ll look back at his eyes and he’ll still be looking at me lol
So I wanna know why he only seems to make intense eye contact with me like this?
Why does he stare at me like this?
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