Okay well here's the story, me and this guy were in the same math class, and he used to always tease me all the time and make fun of me. Later, we found out that we weren't going to be in the same class anymore, so on that day, he became nicer to me. And at the end of the period, he wanted me to give him a hug. The next day, people were saying that he liked me and they were telling him how I liked him. I was talking to him on msn afterwards and I confronted him about the situation. He too wanted to know what was going on. So I told him that I liked him, and he was really happy and excited when I told him that. But he never told me that he liked me back. Later when I went to school, I told my friend who's also his friend what happened, and he said that when he was talking to him, he was saying "ouuu you like her!" but the guy I liked said "no no stop it" in a playful manner. But recently, I went with my class on a retreat with my friends and the guy I like was going to the retreat too! But since I'm shy, I didn't talk to him and I just stayed with my friends, I only said hi to him once. I noticed that when I was with my friends, he would always look at where I was and walk around the area that I was in with my friends. After the retreat, he was talking to me on msn and saying how I like all of the guys, like how I "supposidly" like my best guy friend; that guy that I was "sitting beside and talking to all the time." Later in the conversation, he asked me if I still liked him or not and he sounded like he was pleading me to tell him. I told him that I still did and he was all like "oh sure you do. you dont even do anything to prove that you like me. later" and when I see him at school now, he doesn't look at me and when I told my friend to give him some of my candy, the guy that I liked just said "oh its alright" and he ran away from my friend. Does that mean that he's really shy? Or does that mean that he just doesn't like me and he's trying to get me to stop liking him?

Stop making it hard.

Talk to him. Not your friends. Not his friends. Not anyone else. Nobody can answer it but him.

Its hard if you are shy. Well, get over it. Try at least.

Here's the deal... you try... you sometimes win... you sometimes lose... it's that simple and easy.

This isn't some huge enormous thing... it isn't life and death. Its like or not. So suck it up and talk to HIM directly. If he still is too shy to talk to you then he needs to grow up himself. Sometimes you got to take a leap of faith.

The sooner you start doing this, the better you will feel about your confidence and your ability to engage people.

I was in the same kind of situation it's like this... I really liked this guy in most of my classes and I thought he liked me as well see there was rumours going around he likedme but I obviously wasemt sure and I was so scared about asking him out and I left it fr over a year then he got a girlfriend and it just made me want to cry when he told me but it was the way he told me he said it like this- we were talking in 1 of our classes and he asked me if I liked him and me being shy little me I said 'yes as a friiend' and we starre at eac other in the eye for about a minute and when we were leaving he said to me 'i like you to but you've missed your chance' and I asked him what really fast and it probabley looked really suspicious an he replied I have a girlfriend and I just said cool nearly in tears and went up the stairs and hardley spoke to him the rest of the week but then I spoke to my cousin who had been through this before as well and she said to go for it and I did and he left his girlfriend for me and we are still together so my message for you is go for it what is the worst that can happen and good luck if you do because when it is all over it will feel like the best thing you have ever done and if you do get him never let him go!!