Does he like me or not?

[Rachel]

Okay I totally ramble on here, but bear with me. I'm a teenage girl, I wouldn't say I'm the best looking - big nose, bad skin, ugly smile etc. But at the same time, many other people seem to think i am pretty. I guess it's just their opinion though, I don't see it. There's this guy I've been friendly with for over a year, he lives in a big city about 2 hours from me & i live in a small little town. He is amazing looking, I'd say he's 10/10 for looks & everyone I've showed his picture to would agree. His hair, smile, laugh, body, eyes, just everything, in my opinion he has not got one flaw. Now, for personalities. I'm quite a shy socially awkward girl who finds it hard to talk to people or have confidence a lot of the time, then when i do gain confidence i become pretty weird, loud & just downright annoying. He is a fun, outgoing guy who has the confidence to do or say anything, but he's also really sweet & will always make sure I'm alright if I'm with him. Basically, he has just the right mixture of both those personality types. In the past year I've only met him in real life twice; once when he came down to my town with my cousin, who he's friends with (this was the first time we ever spoke) & the other time when I went up to see him. I went up to see him the other day, i feel like i left a horrible impression. I went up alone & he brought a small group of friends - i felt outnumbered & shy, therefore i barely said a word. Also I was sweating a bit because I was nervous so basically he probably thinks I'm really weird & gross. He has been texting me a bit since but I don't know... Sometimes he does seem to show an interest, for example - i hadn't met up with him for a year, he doesn't have anything like facebook, twitter etc so our only means of communication would have been texting. Yet for the whole year we kept the friendship going through text. Sometimes if we're playing a questions game or whatever it will get pretty personal, we'll ask pretty intimate or sometimes sexual questions (this doesn't happen often though). He has called me gorgeous & rated my personality 95/100, saying it would have been 100/100 if i wasn't so shy because apparently I have an 'amazing personality' & I'm 'different than other girls' etc. Even after the first time we met up he said he liked me & would have asked me to go out with him but I lived too far away. When I was visiting him he would have hung back behind his friends to chat to me, gave me hugs when I was nervous, told me jokes to make me laugh etc. But - in the past year we've been friends, he's had 2 girlfriends, & asked another girl out (these are the only ones i know of, there could have been more) so i wonder, if he just talks to me the way he talks to everyone else? He goes to a popular school in the city & his typical friendship group is around 20+ people, whereas i go to an all-girls grammar school in a small town with a friendship group of maybe 1 or 2 people. I just wonder, what does he want from me? Surely if he was just using me or whatever, he wouldn't have put in a years worth of effort to keep in contact with me even though i live pretty far away? But then i also think, what would a guy like him want from me? I'm sure girls are all over him where he's from, so i just don't know what's going on. I've always thought he was a fun, good looking guy who had great music taste & was fun to talk to, but it's only since I visited him the other day that I've started to like him a bit more than that. I'm afraid though incase i get feelings for him because i still feel like he doesn't, & never will genuinely like me. Any ideas? Do you think he's just messing me about, or maybe just enjoys my friendship? Or maybe does he want more? I just don't know.

[Curious]

Use some paragraphs and I may read it! Too bulky!

[Wascally Wabbit]

If I were you, I would go for it because it sounds like there is massive potential that he does like you. If he is staring at you and joking around with you, that is a sign. It's a good sign because if it doesn't work out. He could always be a good friend. Friends are more valuable at times than a significant other for the fact that they will always be there compared to the significant other that could leave after a couple of months or years even. Just take it slow and easy because who knows where it could go.