Plucking Petals

As a nineteen year old female, it's a fairly decent bet that I've seen my share of chick flicks. They're fun, Dramas and Rom-Com's alike, so yeah even though I do like my gore and action I still fancy me a chick flick.

Among my favourites is He's just not that into you. Not for any particular reason, it's just entertaining. And as Borders has gone into receivership, and everything is super cheap at the moment, I bought the book as well. It's like a funny ass self help book, and I got it mainly as a joke. Half the stuff in it was either "well duh!" worthy or slightly depressing (I need a boyfriend... or a fuck buddy). But I didn't read it with myself and my relationships in mind.

So it's come as a bit of a surprise that I've started thinking of the advice in relation to actual guys.

Enter the guy. Because I'm paranoid that someone I know will eventually find this I will leave him nameless, and he will simply be The Guy. He lives with my brother (which would actually give his identity away in a heartbeat but oh well fuck it) and completely incidentally he and I have spent quite a bit of time together over the past two weeks. We'd met months ago, but I didn't live with them back then. But now I do. We both keep late hours. We both have a hyperactivity problem, which leads to a lot of Nerf wars. We both talk a lot. So we get along pretty well, actually we get along really well. It's totally platonic and he's never flirted with me at all or anything like that, so I haven't given that side of things much (Much) thought.

Then comes the conversation, where I realise that he thought I was a lesbian. Legitimate reasoning, last he knew I was dating a girl. So after explaining my sexuality (at 7 am I might add) I'm a bit confused when he just laughs and walks out. Then when he leaves for work he pats my head and ruffles my hair. Which he has never done in the whole two weeks that I've been sleeping in his lounge room.

So now I'm noticing changes. He teases me more; when he texts me he uses more emoticons, winking faces in particular. And now, with me back at mum and dads for only two days he's gotten bored while studying and started texting me for no real reason, just to chat.

Weird.

My first assumption is that he's simply gotten used to me being around. But I can't help the tiny little voice in the back left corner of my head saying that maybe he has feelings for me. Usually I kick myself when I read into what a guy is doing. And after reading He's just not that into you even more so. Despite that I can't help it. I'm trying to figure it out without going nuts, and I've fairly well convinced myself that it's nothing. Less than nothing. But the tiny voice refuses to shut up, and it's getting really annoying. Any tips for shutting it up? Because I don't want it to convince me to start liking this guy, because to be honest I like him too much. If that makes sense.