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So I've liked him on and off and he liked me a lot. We locked eyes with each other from across the room for a long time. He was flirty but always remained gentlemanly and sweet. He'd check me out a lot even when I could see it and stand close to me. We did talk once and complimented my personality a lot and seemed to really dislike my guy friend. This has been going on for 2 years. I was too shy to show interest. (i only see him once a week if im lucky) However I told some people about him. They're immature and gossip a lot so he probably heard about it. but he's mature so he wouldn't trust everything they say. So lately instead of the usual flirty looks and smiles he acts like I don't exist. I walked over to him and his friends and he didn't even look at me once. He's a very confident and talkative guy but he's quiet around me. The next time I saw him I was standing on the other side of the room and he was with his friends. Nobody else was with me. But then He walked over next to me and started cleaning something behind me and I felt him staring. His friend came over to talk to him so I left. Today I was standing of in a corner by myself and he walked over and stood really close. Wth?

would it have been helpful if the other person initiated it?

I'm new to my uni as a transfer student and so far haven't seen anyone I recognize from my high school or community college so I pretty much have a classroom full of strangers! I'm shy & reserved so I'm not sure how to make friends other than if my professor ever has a group project or something because the class is bigger than what I'm used to and I hardly recognize anyone each time in lecture since we seem to sit in different places.

So far I've only had guys as the classmates around me to talk to but they just discuss the answer and that's it. Only one guy asked my name and introduced himself and turned out to be a transfer student too but he's a bit older like late 20s/early 30s as opposed to me and the majority of the class being early 20s.

I feel like everyone already has friends from their freshman and sophomore year.. and I've never been the new kid at grade school so I don't know how to jump in with all these new kids. And I feel like no one wants to be bothered since they don't try to keep the convo going as I overhear others talking about off topic things after discussing their answer to the professor's questions.

And I feel a little foolish because on the first day this one guy was running late after going to the bathroom and I accidentally took his seat but he so nice about it and sat someplace else. He said don't worry about it since it's the first day. A week later I see him running late again and after class I was gonna offer him his notes til he walked up to some girl he knew and asked her... ahhh so awkward since I was right behind him and had to pass by and say excuse me to him and he didn't seem to remember me