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I have a huge crush on this one guy, we're friendly and we like to hang out and talk. Lately, he seems a lot more flirty, such as he maintains way more eye contact and stares at me much more frequently. My friends' notes he becomes much more nervous when we talk such as avoiding eye contact, nervous smiling. All of my friends are always asking me if there's something between me and this kid, and even the teachers say so too. He's a very nice yet sort of shy guy and he's average looking although I know of two other girls who like him as well. He loves teasing me and makes it a usual conversation starter. He initiates most of the conversations and usually seeks me out whenever he can. Although, there are sometimes where he completely ignores me and/or stares at me but doesn't say anything, however, he usually does ends up talking to me in the end. We're in different classes but he usually waits for me after class and/or walks with me to my next class. I have a gut feeling he likes me, however, I do feel like he is a flirt and social media makes me a lot more apprehensive. He comments really flirty emojis on these few girl's pages but they all have two things in common, they're way out of his league and/or they have boyfriends. He also has a lot of female friends too. But he doesn't completely ignore me either, he sends me these weird posts every 3-5 days but what irritates me is that when I respond he could sometimes continue the conversation but then sometimes doesn't. He also views my stories almost religiously. So what I'm asking is... does this guy really like me? Is he playing games? (Note: I try not to make it obvious I like him and sometimes play hard to get/ be mean to him) . Could he know I like him and be leading me on?
Please help me out!
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At the beginning of July, a surgeon I work with on occasion and never really talked to but I’d been majorly crushing on liked me on tinder. I matched with him and sent him a message but he never responded. Since then, I’ve been actively trying to talk to him since he must at least think I’m cute. I don’t see him a whole lot so it’s been slow going but we’ve slowly started chatting. He waves or smiles at me in the hall, and the last week he’s been starting to goof around with me and tease me, but it’s been work related stuff. I hit the wrong button last week on my machine and he’s been joking about it whenever I work with him. Also, a few weeks ago I was walking towards the building through the parking lot and I stopped to let a car drive by me and it was him, and he stared me in the eyes the entire 5 or so seconds it took to pass me.
Am I reading way too much into this? I feel like since I really like him I’m interpreting his friendliness as signs that he likes me. I’ve been trying to pay attention to how he talks to other girls and he doesn’t use the same joke tone or goof around with them. If he liked me he’d ask me out though, right?
I really need some advice!