Friends or more? How do you know?

LegacyUser

Hey all

So, i met my best friend a while back and he honestly is the best person i have ever known in all my 18 years. (i am an 18 year old girl by the way)

The reason we started talking in the first place was because my friend was trying to set us up because i really fancied him.
We hit it off but my friend started going out with him.
So it all died down and i really feel nothing but pure 'friend-love' for him now.
But a few months back ago he and my friend broke up.
We obviously got closer, because i kind of acted as his agony-aunt, so to speak.
Now we hang out every possible moment, text non-stop and people (even my parents) have started to mistake us for a couple.

So i was hanging out with him at the weekend and he was walking me home and we were talking about when he and my friend were going out. i was explaining how obviously it's going to be hard for he and his ex/my friend to be friends straight away after what they had and i used the line "for instance, you don't hold hands with your friends, right?" anyway, following that, he took my hand and we held hands the rest of the way home...
when we got to my house we hugged for 5 minutes (no exaggeration) and my face was all pressed into his neck and he was rubbing my back up and down and it felt great. Then he said I love you (which is normal for us because we say it all the time) and I replied I love you too, obviously. Then the minute I went inside my house I had a text from him.

I know we are the best of friends, and I honestly don't think I feel anything more, nor do I think he feels anything more, and we laugh at people mistaking us for a couple, but lately I've begun to wonder is it possible that it's growing into more than a friendship? My two other best friends have called my naive for not seeing it coming but I'm just so confused.

Any advice?
Thanks. :-)

Victor

Poster, can you be careful when posting, random text length is difficult to read and alienates readers.

colly10

Thats more than a friendship, he knows it and is probably just biding his time before making a move. If your sure that your not interested then say it to him when you get an opportunity (or at least stop leading him on), otherwise go for it.
If you fancy him (if you did in the past you will again after going out for a while) and you get on well then you'se would make a great couple

Karen_*

Well he obviously really likes you. Do you want to be more than friends? Sounds like it could be the start of something.

Burial

From what you said, he sounds as though he really really likes you. Tell this guy how you feel, the sooner the better.

AnonoBoy

You're both 18.

You are obviously into each other.

What's the problem again?

Just lob the gob!

biko

He is into you.
Kiss him.
Live happily ever after.

tolosenc

I was really close friends with a girl when I was 18, not that it was that long ago, and people who hadn't met her boyfriend or my (very shortlived) girlfriend mistook us for each others' other half.

That is where the confusion really began to work on me, when I thought that there may have been something there that lead people to believe we were a couple.

Never did pursue it and we're still good friends.

May live to regret it, may not.

Essentially: I hear ya.