Thereās this guy (M18) I (19M) met in the first week of university. I just want to clarify before I say anything, yes, I like him (a lot) & I find him attractive, and I know that it may have an influence with how I may interpret things ā but there are some things that just really donāt make sense.
During the first week of university, the second time meeting him, him & I (and some of our friends) were in his communal kitchen, and I had my legs resting on the table in front of us. He was sat on the sofa opposite me. I was wearing my jeans, and he put his legs inside of my jeans, and was rubbing my inner thigh with his foot. We both just kind of pretended it wasnāt happening, but then we just jokingly acknowledged it later.
We were in the back of a car about a week ago with our friends, and he just rubbed my thigh with his finger & neither of us acknowledged it happened.
There was also another time about 2 days ago where we were in our kitchen with a couple of our friends sat on the sofaās, and I just had my leg resting on his thigh ā obviously this is a normal thing to do with your friends (if youāre close enough), and then we jokingly started taking each otherās socks off & we were just play fighting for like an hour, purposely trying to put each otherās feet inside of each otherās mouths (weird I know š) and we like interlocked feet and hands and stuff (I know it sounds so weird), and I conjoined my toe like with his toes & we just sat there for like 5 minutes with it like that. Things like this are weird and funny⦠but we like sit there comfortably allowing each other to just do weird stuff and we just allow it. I know itās weird but, I really like physical touch like this especially when itās intimate, because it makes me feel nervous and gives me butterflies because I like him. he never acts like this to anyone else. even with his friends heās been friends with for almost 6 years.
even today, we were both sat on the sofa with our friend, I sat in between them, and he took his shoe off and immediately put his leg over my lap, I just looked at him and just awkwardly went āwonderful hahaā, and he just smiled. we stayed like that for 10 minutes, and then I started jokingly taking his sock off and then he started trying to put his foot in my mouth again.
another thing, when weāre talking, I always catch him looking at my lips and then looking back at my eyes, I try my best not to do it because I donāt want him to think I want to kiss him (as he has a girlfriend, and I stay respectful), like I flirt back and whatnot but I would never do anything about it.
heās always looking at me to the point where I try my best not to look at him otherwise thereāll be this weird intense eye contact. whenever we lock eyes we just stare at each other until one of us does something similar to break the tension.
he always teases me by taking my phone or my keycard & hides it, and always makes these jokes about me (like he started this thing where he kept saying my name in like every sentence to annoy me), and always tries to annoy me on purpose.
and one thing that struck me by surprise, a couple nights ago we had a bonfire (him & I and others), and we were all gathered around the campfire eating marshmallows, and my friend started handing out cigarettes ā Iām a social smoker so I had a few, I offered him some & we shared a cigarette together. I then moved away a little from the group to sit down and smoke, and he came over and joined me by sitting next to me.
I told one of his friendās about this (who heās known for years) and he said āthatās crazy to me, Iāve had many cigarettes around him and heās never wanted to try itā, so it makes me question things because why does he want to try it when I offer it to him!?
⦠there have been so many things that have pointed towards him liking me, but itās so confusing because, on the contraryā¦
when we are away from each other, we snap & send each other reels etc, but he doesnāt seem like he wants to continue conversations over texts & leaves me on opened sometimes, heās also happy to talk about his girlfriend in front of me as well & has said a couple times before, āim not gayā
and even today, I said to him & his friend, āyeah, fin (one of our friends) is the straightest man I knowā, and he (the guy sending mixed signals) said āoh do you not think Iām straight?ā, and I just awkwardly said āyeah youāre straightā
some context about him as well that his friend told me, growing up, he was always surrounded by his guy friends & was never exposed to gay people before. and now heās at university and has met me, its introduced a new dynamic to him.
Iād really like some advice on what to do.
I wonāt pursue anything or try do anything because thatās too risky, and plus he has a girlfriend. so im really not sure.
it just sucks because I really like him and I canāt help but really like him. I flirt back with him when I know I shouldnāt. I see him almost everyday.