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Should I approach this guy?

Asked by Adriana_92 (12points) September 12th, 2013 from iPhone

So.. I have started my senior year at the end of August and well there has been this guy. He’s really cute and he plays basketball. He’s new to my school and he is also a senior. I’ve caught him staring at me many times and I have 2 classes with him. I feel like he likes me but then he doesn’t. And I kinda like him but I’m too shy to go up to him. And what if I’m wrong about him liking me? I wouldn’t be able to handle the embarrassment. What should I do? I constantly catch him staring at me but we haven’t had one full conversation. I try to ignore him but everywhere I am he is there. I know I’m young and all but I would like to know. Please help

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KNOWITALL's avatar

Friend him on fb. Someone has to make a move. :)

Blondesjon's avatar

Do something about it. Don’t prove all of us old fucks right when we exclaim that, “Youth is wasted on the young.”

DWW25921's avatar

Do something small like what @KNOWITALL said. Start out simple and don’t be too pushy or you’ll scare the guy off. If you’re wrong about him than life will go on and 10 years down the road you won’t remember his name. Don’t worry about that.

Adriana_92's avatar

I’m a simple girl to be honest, I’m not the type of girl to scare a guy off it be to pushy. But like he hangs out with his friends all the time and I hang out with mine. And he doesn’t really have FB or twitter. So I have no way to start up a conversation even though I’ve noticed him staring right at me in p.e today

zenvelo's avatar

I was a senior in high school once, and first semester a girl I’d never met was in a class of mine. She smiled at me every day, but never talked to me, even though I smiled back and said hi. But I was 17 and scared to say more to a girl than.

At the end of the year she wrote in my yearbook that she wished I had asked her out, that the whole semester she looked forward to seeing me. I have not seen her since the last day of high school.

Don’t be that girl!

He is just as nervous and unsure as you are. So do what @KNOWITALL and others have said and make the first move, even just small.

Good Luck!

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@Adriana_92 Welcome to fluther. You want to know the best way to approach a guy? Do it without him noticing it until you’re in close proximity. Find a reason to be close to him and then let him notice you. I hate being pursued. I’ve had women stop in my office lost in the building I work at. When they’re aggressive and let me know they’re interested my defensive walls go up. But if they are relaxed and draw me out I’m confident and I get into the conversation and it just flows back and forth. The same if I pursue someone. Their walls go up and it isn’t comfortable. If you notice the eye contact then get close and let it play out. Worst case you find you don’t have much in common and you both move on. Nothing ventured nothing gained in life.

LDRSHIP's avatar

I just want to say that having been a much more quite and shy guy in high school…Oh how it would have been so nice to have a girl to approach me for once instead me doing it all the time (or the few times I did haha) or my attempts to talk with girls.

Now having been out of high school for about 5 years now. I am much more confident and can go up to women talk, flirt maybe even get a number or something depending how things go.

That being said I still wish more women would approach guys. Y’all really have nothing to lose in my opinion. If you do get rejected well maybe you will appreciate the fact of how guys feel when they go up to women and get rejected.

Two way street is how I see it. Why do I have to initiate everything? Least in my experiences it feels that way at times. Just my 2 cents.

Adriana_92's avatar

I love all your answers. But since he’s new to the school so many girls think he’s so cute. And they want to get at him, I don’t wanna be like all the girls.

Paradox25's avatar

I’m not a fan of traditional gender thinking concerning dating, but I’d back off here if I was you. I’m a rather shy, introverted type of guy myself, but when I liked someone I didn’t play games if they let me knew that they liked me. I’m sure like many girls do, this boy as well is just enjoying the attention he’s receiving (again I can relate to that).

Don’t set yourself up for heartache here when you’re not even certain whether he likes you or not. I’m also hoping that you like him for reasons other than the fact that other girls like him, or because he’s new. The only thing that I can tell you is to try talking to him, but I wouldn’t text or message him electronically via phone, facebook, etc at first. Leave him do some work if he’s interested in you, and don’t forget that there’s other fish in the pond.

tigran's avatar

Yes just do it!

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