What's going on? How do I make him like me again?

[keakar]

well lets see, he asked you out and you said "i'll think about it" that's blowing him off nicely and that's how im sure it was perceived by him. its a simple yes or no question and anything else is just saying "I don't want to hurt your feelings by rejecting you but no I don't want to go out with you". he even had his friends do a search mission to be sure you aren't interested and they confirmed this by your responses to their inquiries.

his comment to you was a defence mechanism to avoid the direct rejection he felt was coming from you if he pressed the question based on how you reacted to everything leading up to that point.

he is very shy and felt pressed into action because your time together was ending soon so he overcame his fear and reached out to let you know he was interested and your response could only be perceived as you were not interested and just being polite about it.

life is short, act on your feelings and what happens will happen. shy guys are often too afraid to make the first move and need more then hints and suggestions to get the message that you like them back.

if he and his friends are playing games with you then so what, take the chance and if they are jerks then you move on knowing you made your feelings known and don't end up regretting never knowing if you past up on a good thing.

it may be too late at this point so just tell him directly in plain english that if he asked you in person and was serious then you would like to go out and get to know him better. what do you have to lose at this point.