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Him and I flirted and made out. Said he didn't want a relationship cuz we'd have to be apart for school in a year. I ask to be friends he says ok, and not even two days later flirts with me again, being really caring, using heart emojis, being super sweet and missing me. Boi gets pissed cuz I post a pic of us somewhere, people started sharing our photo and assumed we were dating cuz the caption had a date. (The day I gave him a drawing I used 11 hours to make) I just meant it as a picture and nothing else, but I also told him I do like him, but he said he didn't wanna break my heart and sounded vulnerable, but then I told him I only liked him and wasn't in love with him or anything and he seemed annoyed/ confused, and that's when he started getting really mad and then ignoring me and gave me a sarcastic comments about how I was pressuring him to be in a relationship with me.

All I did was draw him a picture and post it. He is the one who keeps the drawing in his room, showed his friends, walks around the school with me and stops us with his friends and his brother/ his brother's friends. Says he likes things lowkey yet literally everyone sees us together and I haven't seen him walking around like that with any other girls. Tried to avoid me in the hallways at school but 2 days ago I was in my friends car and my friend beside me told me that the guy was on the sidewalk with his friends and that he was looking straight into our car (2 separate times). Now he's trying flirt/hookup with other girls; I've never slept with him. He's listening to 1) Without me -Halsey 2) Now or Never- Halsey ( about not wanting to fight, the person to love you right now) 3) Illenium- Down with me (it's about how a guy is super screwed up and doesn't wanna drag down the people he loves with his mistakes and how they should let go of him and not try to fix him and that he doesn't wanna break their heart) He usually only listens to rap so his music just made a 180 turn. Please explain.

Over the past year I have gotten to know a guy at my sport's club very well. I get along better with him than any other guy I've ever known, his humor is identical to mine, he brings me out of my shell and makes me a better person when I with him. He inspires me a lot and I really love him, but not in a romantic way. I thought I liked him about a year ago because I was getting out of a really emotional relationship that took a really big toll on me at the time. In reality I didn't like him. I mean this with 100% certainty, that I like him simply as a good guy friend. Some of my friends seem to think otherwise and so they smirk at me when I'm with him, they keep referencing him in our conversations, etc. I'm worried he'll notice one of these days. Should I talk to him about it? I feel like I need to tell him the truth before a rumor gets out and negatively impacts our friendship, but there's also a risk in talking to him about it. I really don't wanna screw the friendship up, so at this point I'm open to advice on how you as a guy might react, or if any ladies out there might have had similar experiences. It's just annoying that nowadays people automatically assume that if a girls deeply cares about a guy, she has romantic feelings for him.