so guysss it's been awhile since i posted but i have news! i like someone new...BUT it's a good thing because me and the guy are really close friends. he knows i like him, but the thing is, he has a girlfriend. but when he found out i liked him, he DID NOT stop talking to me...at all. we're too close as friends to ever stop talking over me having feelings for him. he's a freshman, just like the last guy was. i knew him for a few years because i was friends with his older brother who's in my grade. me and the guy (freshman) have a bit of history from a while ago..he had a crush on me and i didn't know, and i had a crush on him and he didn't know..until a few weeks ago when we walked to the vending machines at school. he was flat out honest about his past feelings and so was i, but ever since we started talking more, those feelings came back..so when my friend told him i liked him (it was the friday before i returned to school) i almost freaked out because i didn't want him to know knowing he had a girlfriend. she told me that when she told him, his response was good. apparently he said, "i would date her, but since she's a senior i wouldn't be able to see her." sadly, the day i returned to school, he wasn't there and i was so looking forward to seeing him again..but yesterday he was here and i thought it would've been awkward because i know he knows i like him. but when he saw me, he SMILED at me before going to the bathroom. when he came to our study hall table, he sat next to me, smiling once again, and asked how i was, how i did on quarantine and if i was happy to be back. then i went to the bathroom and texted my friend asking her to talk to him again before i left the bathroom. she ended up showing him the messages i sent her and she said HE SMILED AT THEM and when we all talked about squid game, he was staring at me the WHOLE ENTIRE TIME- he's always looking at me and smiling when i'm near him and i know he has a girlfriend. my friend thinks he likes me...help.