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There is this guy that I went to high school with... I really liked him but my friend did too, so to me he was off limits. We never talked but he would stare at me everyday in class. My friend would constantly talk about him, so one day I decided I would text his friend to see if he liked her too, since I had the friends number, just hadn't texted him before. When I texted the friend, the friend asked if I thought he (the friend, not the crush) was cute and said he had a low self esteem... which I should have know was a trick, he was popular, I said "well you aren't ugly" after that I got no reply so I texted back and said "I've gotta ask you something"... again, no reply. The next day in school, my crush started to tease me about liking his friend, I told him I didn't like his friend, but that didn't stop him from teasing. Finally, I gave up on trying to explain myself, I just ignored him and let him tease me. He continued to do this for the rest of the school year, while still starring at me during class. Finally, after he graduated, my friend (not the one who likes him, another girl) was talking to him and brought my name up to him and he said "I can't stand her, she's annoying" but I never did anything to him, we hardly talked... after that I got his number from her to find out his problem and he started saying that he didn't want to talk to me and that he couldn't stand me, mind you this was years later...

I just seen him at the mall last night (he didn't see me though), and now I can't get him off my mind. Why is he acting like that? I still really like him, is there anything I can do to make him feel differently about me?