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I know I've asked similar questions, but this is driving me insane!! 🤯🤯😬

He says he doesn't like me, but i hear him talking about me to others & people tell me that he talks about me.
He messages my friend, asking:
"wheres Keziah, is she at the bar with you?"
Or something similar. 😶

At the gym, i always catch him staring at me, watching me and listening to my conversations with other people.
~ (there's loads of mirrors there, so i can see him staring at me, without directly looking at him)

It gets on my nerves, cos i tried being friendly towards him, but he seems unfriendly and cold!
(but im bad at reading people, so maybe he's nervous? I dunno!)

I got the vibe that he didn't want to talk to me, cos he didn't seem very friendly
(hes really friendly towards everyone else!!)
So i stopped saying 'hi' to him & trying to make small talk, cos it felt forced & awkward.
Now i kind of ignore him, cos i think he might be playing mind games.

And i think that, if a guy is interested in me, he would make more of an effort to talk to me!!

I feel like giving up on him!
I'm just gonna assume that he doesn't like me and that he's just strange!!

He's 20 years old, by the way.
He isn't shy, cos he's loud around other people!

Coworker A and B are well liked amongst everyone and both good friends of mine. Coworker A has been at this job for 6 years. Coworker B started 4 months ago and this is her first job. Coworker A and B are both shy but they are definitely shy around each other. Coworker A was playing mind games with B’s emotions. Coworker B got sick of it (going on for 2 months) and asked Coworker A out but coworker A was caught off guard and said he was not interested. A immediately felt bad and regretted the decision. B was distancing herself from him all last week and when they did talk she joked around harshly and her whole demeanor changed. A got feelings for B and B was acting like a complete bitch and A was being nice and doing things for her. A got fed up with her shitty attitude towards him and found her twitter and she made tweets wanting to plot revenge on a coworker that nobody likes (all she was gonna do was hide her stuff around the room, really stupid childish stuff nothing major) he screenshotted and printed out her tweets and took them to HR. She was on the brink of being fired anyways because she was continuously late (she got several warnings before her write ups). Coworker A then blocked her on everything. Coworker B got fired yesterday and she found out it was A who ratted her out. Coworker A shouldn’t have gotten involved but he called it revenge. Everybody is mad at A For saying anything. Yes it was wrong but she was a good coworker who rarely caused trouble plus nobody liked that other girl. Coworker A now feels bad for what he did but the damage is done and he’s actually sad that he won’t see B again. He has tried apologizing and messaging B but she’s not responding to him. She is also blaming herself on how she handled the situation after initially being rejected (being a bitch to him all last week), I think they are both too emotionally immature and their personalities are too similar for this to work.

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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