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There's a guy that I've hung out with a few times this summer who definitely liked me. The thing is he ended up feeling rejected by me. He's 100% inexperienced with girls and has a pretty big ego. After to talking to my friend whose good friends with him and telling her everything that happened, she thought he obviously felt rejected and is trying not to like me, hence why he isn't contacting me. We were supposed to hang then when that day came I ended up doing something else but he never contacted me. I messaged him later and said I wish I had seem him before he left for school again but that if I couldn't it was cool seeing him and I hoped he'd have a nice trip. Turns out he couldn't leave for a health issue, my friend told me cause he asked her to hang when she was out of town and told her. They have a totally platonic relationship. Anyways she said I should contact him again so I did saying I was sorry about his health and if he was going to be in town longer maybe we'd hang. He saw both those messages after a few days of sending them even though he had been online a ton before looking, but never responded. In person he was the clingy one and I definitely wasn't, but I do NOT want to seem clingy. So far what I've don't hasn't been. But I've talked to my best guy friend and he thinks this guy is being childish and a dick and that i should just hook up with someone else or i should just call him. I told one of my girlfriends and she thinks i ahould contact him too. They both think one last time. I'll do it, cause i feel like coming from me it wouldn't be clingy. The thing is though if it was just him feeling rejected he shouldn't by now because I've contacted him 3 times with no response, but he does have a big ego that would deflate him if knocked. But I feel like its not rejection anymore, i feel like his trying to not like me has turned into dislike! What do you think? And when i contact him again should i call him to hang out then if he's free or text him?