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Even though I'm in a relationship, I think that my best friend may have something for me. We sit together in some of our classes, but even if we don't, we're still talking to each other even if we're in different sides of the room. He treats me unlike anyone else; makes eye contact with hardly anyone, but can do it with me, he's always been really nervous around people but there's days when he's not nervous around me and times when he is, especially when he stuffs up, he goes all red. He is always somehow close to me, leaning near me, writing on my stuff, play fighting in a way. If I'm not paying attention to him, he'll find a way to change that: whether it's leaning over and drawing on my book, saying something to me or even staring at me until I realise it. I always catch him looking at me, even if he's doing it in the corner of his eye and he admits to it too. We walk together after school, he knows that he's my best friend and he doesn't try to argue that. In fact, he accepts it. We know everything about each other. He sometimes talks to me on snapchat. We have inside jokes and if he's around when I am making a joke, even if it's to someone else, he'll always be listening in and laugh. In all honesty, he gets annoyed by everyone other than me. He usually grabs my phone and goes through it and sometimes reads over my text messages if I'm messaging my boyfriend during class. We are never sitting in the same class in silence because he will ALWAYS start a conversation, no matter what it's about, any excuse to talk to me, he will. He remembers everything about me, whether it's things that I do or say. Everybody that has seen us together says that we are "meant for each other", "deserve each other" and that he most definitely has feelings for me, even people I've never spoke to before that just witness what goes on. What do you think?

PS: I have no intentions of pursuing this as I have a boyfriend who I love, I'm asking this question out of curiosity.

I am casually seeing this guy and I'm afraid of getting hurt so as much as I wish I didn't I've put up a little wall. Everytime I start even thinking that he may really care about me, I find excuses or think about how it may be a way just to get me to stick around and put out. He's been patient though, he'll ask me certain things but he never tries to force stuff out of me. The other night we were pretty drunk and he was rambling about how much he has been wanting to sleep with me lately and he has a crazy imagination when he was drunk so it was a little hard to follow, but during one of the rambles he referred to me as the woman I love and it kind of caught me aback. There was a moment of silence when I think he had realized what he said and was seeing if I would react and I just kind or transitioned into another joke and tried to act like I didn't even hear it. But honestly after he said it, it was the only part of the conversation I could really remember. I just keep telling myself that it was a slip of words and that it wasn't intended, but I'm not sure if thats the truth or just me trying to avoid getting deeper. How often would you say drunk people use words like that if they don't actually feel that way?