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so things have been going a bit back and for between me and this guy. we dated a year ago but i felt like he was not ready so i ended it. he said he was just 'shy', and its hard for him to talk about bc he's not usually shy plus he's a guy so... but by then i just wanted it to be over. so i said its over. he accepted resolutely.

anyhow he asked me out earlier this year but i was hesitant bc of the past so he sensed this and said he understands if i'm not interested.

I said maybe we could hag out... following through with that i asked him out a while after but he evidently had taken my 'maybe' as not interested and was caught off guard. which i took as not interested. so i was pretty much just thinking of us as done.

then last week he asks me out and i got kind of annoyed, bc I don't know it was feeling like he was playing games, though i guess it could look the same to him. anyhow i asked him what he wanted bc i don't understand what is going on.

he said he's getting mixed messages from ME (lol) and he really likes me but everything's been kinda crazy and he did not know what to do or not, which made him feel stuck. so to solve this he planned on asking me out once and for all forgetting everything happening earlier. and id say yes, or id say no. and if i said yes wed hang out and see how it goes, maybe get a chance to clear things up, maybe just hang. he didn't really want to think on it too much in advance bc it'd feel forced. and if i said no, he'd move on. so it was REALLY important to him for me to answer yes or no.

as i said in the title its not an irrational thing to say but it just seems like i'm supposed to be able to know he's trying to out everything behind on one question, and just be able to answer with no info--without telling me. i mean he did bc i asked but if i hadn't he'd just base everything off yes or no. it just seems kind of harsh. I don't know exactly what bothers me about it but it seems dismissive. not sure it is.

what do you think? what would you do?

Okay, I have a crush on this boy, but unfortunately, I only have 1 class with him. I think he may like but I'm getting mixed signals and I don't know what to do. Here's what I do know...

1. He's only ever asked out 1 girl before, and got rejected so it's likely he's cautious around a girl he likes, right? I also look pretty similar to this girl, we both have dirty blonde hair and blue eyes. This also happened almost a year ago.
2.. When I used sit by him in class, he ignored me and talked to everyone else but me. However, he still tried to project his personality. If he makes a joke, he'll sometimes look over to me to see if I'm laughing. He's an outgoing guy so it doesn't make sense that he'd be shy around me.
3. I've caught him staring at me multiple times. Yet, every time I notice, he turns his head away really fast.
4. I was sitting with a few of my friends, and in the corner of my eye, I caught him whisper to his friend and they both stare directly at me.
5. Our class went to the computer lab, and as we were about to find our seats, I looked up and he was staring directly at me. I stared back for 4-5ish seconds but I was the first one to break eye contact. We weren't sitting together but he did sit right in front of me.
6. When I was walking into the cafeteria with a few of my friends, him and one of his friends were staring at me as I was getting to my seat, and they saw that I was sitting really close to one of my guy friends. We don't sit at the same table.
7. The next day, we were playing a game in class, and he kept running around and acting silly. Every time he would do that, he would look directly at me to see if I was watching him?
8. He's been trying to get closer to me. For example, whenever we're allowed to move seats for the day, he always sits with his friends at my table. He also traded seats with one of his friends to sit by me at a pep rally for my school.

By the way, all of this is in chronological order.