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Freshman year I met this guy through one of my school clubs and we became close and we were also partners that summer when we went to a field trip with the club.
(I was with my almost 1 year boyfriend) and I didn't really think of him as anything more than a friend.
But as the vacation ended and I ended up breaking up with my boyfriend I noticed how nice and cool he was but still only as a friend.
Well a few months later sophomore year comes along and it's mid October and we went to some game and my two best friends knew I had some feelings for him now and they decided they should hook us up.
I refused to say anything to him so when I wasn't in the room they began asking if he liked anybody and then if he liked me.
According to them he was extremely flustered and said no.
After telling me this I even more refused to tell him anything in fear he'd bring it up. But my friends kept telling me he "totally likes me" and I just confronted him about it. Well he had a girlfriend at the time I confessed.
But the thing is he told me he liked me back but he didn't want to hurt his current girlfriend so I told him that we should just forget what we talked about. Until last week it had worker. but after our winter ball I realized how much I actually cared for him.
He's graduating this year and signed up for the navy. So right after graduation he'll be gone for quite a while. And I'll be stuck here wondering if I ever had a shot with him.

Today I told my closest friend that I still had feelings for him (because everybody believes I have 0% interest in him) and she helped me out and asked if he liked this one other girl he's been real nice to and he told her they were just fiends because they shared some club together but nothing more than that
So now I know he's not interested in anyone. But I'm still hesitant on confronting him because 1) I don't want to be rejected 2) don't want to ruin our great friendship
3) don't want to seem desperate