Does he like me or is he just messing around?

[randomguy]

I met this guy online. Through a game I play, not through a dating site or anything. Anyway he calls himself straight and has dated a couple girls.

We got to know each other pretty well just from chatting and eventually texting and I developed a huge crush on him. I eventually told him (a bit jokingly) that I had the crush, and he said something like "wow youre a fag lol" and went offline. Feeling terrible, I left him a message confiming that I had the crush and offering to leave and never talk to him again. The next day he tells me he doesn't care and not to quit.

Anyway after that for the past couple weeks we have been sending each other a lot of smiley/flirty texts. Like texting several hundred times a day. Lots of smilies - sometimes we text back and forth nothing but smilies over and over again.

He knows I like him but when I hint for him to tell me whether he likes me he always says something about how "he's been thinking about his ex a lot".

Then some days he'll barely text me at all and the go back to doing it a couple days later.

This is driving me nuts!