Hello,
From a while now I think that something like a flirt started between me and my professor. I feel a strong mutual attraction, spark and that it is a pleasure for both of us when we see each other, when we talk and when we are close to each other. He shows strong sympathy and special treatment for me. I feel that he likes me and has feelings for me, but I am not 100 percent sure. One of the most obvious signs for me is the specific way he looks at me at certain times - he literally stares at me like there are no other people in the room. He fixes his eyes on mine for longer time. His brows are a little lifted, his gaze is deep, intense, provocative and somehow seductive, a kind of desire can be read in it. Several times while I am writing or talking to someone else I have noticed with my peripheral vision that he is watching me with a genuine smile. Once when I was sitting right in front of him and was writing, he was watching me with a wide smile and some kind of fascination and admiration. It was clear that he was delighted, like he was really impressed. Lately, we became really close, he treats me very gently, he offers me his help in certain situations - for example to take something heavier so that I don't have to carry it, even for small things - to help me with a pen, to show me how to do something on the computer, he comforts me when I am upset. When we meet he smiles very sweetly, once he accidentally saw me with other students, and the next day we had to have a lecture with him, he walked past us, he looked at me and a smile immediately appeared on his face, he greeted and said "see you tomorrow", but a little bit playfully and was looking right at me, I was also looking at him and smiling. Whenever he sees me he finds ways to talk with me about something and has a smile on his face, I feel his interest by the way he looks at me, how playfully, a little bit teasy and sweetly at the same time he talks to me. Other students have told me that he asked about me when I wasn't there. Once when I came in the room and sat down he looked at me and smiled for no reason, and when he smiles he has wrinkles around his eyes. He offered me to work together on a report and we started to contact more and more intensively, he praises me so much, as if my knowledge and abilities are almost unique. Once when we were alone in the hall he wanted me to give him my phone number (he told me it is because of the report) and gave me his. He called me on the phone even for small things, although he was very busy, once he even told me that he had called me by accident. He always finds ways to keep the conversation going, he started sharing to me his problems - that he is always in a rush, under pressure and other personal details, he tells me things that happened to him before, he doesn't skip to make a joke, we laugh. He even told me that I don't need to take an exam on his discipline (because of the additional activity) and said to me "you know you will have an excellent grade from me, don't you", I said "Of course I know" and we laughed. During one meeting at the university he was sitting right across from me and I was feeling his gaze on me for a quite long time, he was watching me, as if he was desperately seeking my gaze, I looked at him and he was really looking straight into me, he was quite focused, and his eyes clearly showed satisfaction and that he liked what he was looking at. His gaze was somehow serious, penetrating and sexy, that kind of gaze you can't stand and look away. At the moment we locked eyes I felt quite vividly that something was going on in his head. We kept staring at each other to the point where I felt awkward and started getting nervous. The same happened several times. After a few minutes I caught him watching me again, I met his eyes and this time he immediately looked away. When the meeting ended we were looking at each other again and he told me to come to him and we talked about the report, I think he even gestured to sit next to him, but I didn't quite understand him. He was very talkative as every time and he seemed to always find something to say so that the conversation wouldn't end. Shortly after we said "bye" to each other, we accidentally met again, and he didn't skip the opportunity to start another conversation with me, he was very playful and provocative. He asked me "what's up, why are you so hurry", he makes jokes, tries to make me laugh. We started having deeper conversations on the phone, up to 20 minutes, I share to him and he shares to me. He comforts me when I am worried, he sees it on my face when I am in a bad mood, he quite often asks me how I am and if everything is alright, even when we talk on the phone - after we talk about something, he asks me "how is it going", he tells me not to think about the bad things. Once I told him that I am tensed and he immediately asked why, he predisposes me to share, he listens to me and shows concern. When we were alone in the room, he offered to get me coffee- we were talking about the report and he said we need to take a break and that he was going to get coffee and asked if I wanted one, too, but I refused (because I don't drink coffee) and he asked with a smile: "Why, don't you drink coffee?". I sense in him a strong desire to shorten the distance. He also told me that he has never had students like me, he compliments me a lot on my intelligence, he says that I understand things that other students don't, that I am very talented, that I talk very nice, he makes me feel quite different from others. Because of me, he had postponed a very urgent commitment of his, because he had promised me to meet. I was very late then and he was waiting for me for a whole hour, even though he had an important work. Because of the report we started chatting, even late at night (several times after midnight), we also send each other smiling emoticons. He opens the door for me, he treats me very carefully, I have shared our situation with my close friends and they have told me that he is definitely looking for closeness with me, that there is no professor who would chat with a student like that and that he hardly acts or talks like that to anyone, that he has fallen hard for me, that he looks at me differently when I am not looking and smiles. He asked me if I live in the same city where I study, I told him where I am from, he told me which school he went to, he saw my antidepressants and I told him why I take them and what has happened to me, he started sharing to me things about his health. I told him that I have sleeping problems, and he told me that it is the same with him, that he wakes up at night and said with a smile: "so I am not the only one who doesn't sleep", as if to say that this is one of the things we have in common. He told me that I need something to distract myself with and what he does to distract himself and along the other things he also told me where he lives. Several times he has complimented me on my appearance as well - that I look very good. Once when he said it, after a while he repeated it, I didn't understand why, maybe I was really pretty and he was impressed. Once I was with my close friend from the course, he saw that she had a tattoo on her arm and asked me if I had tattoos, too. When I make a joke he laughs very sweetly. When I had to present the report we were sitting next to each other, he was whispering things in my ear and so was I, lightly toching him on the leg, he was making me laugh with jokes, everything was very natural and free, none of us was feeling uncomfortable even when we were silent. While I was presenting the report, I was a little unsure at first, I looked at him and he winked at me and then he said very kind words to me - that it was my best presentation, that I "took the cake", that he didn't even know the names of the other students. I noticed that of all the participants in the event I was the only one working on a different laptop, he told me that it was his personal laptop, not work. I asked him if he only brought it for this occation, and he replied "because of you", i.e. to make it more convenient for me and not to worry - he had prepared everything necessary on his laptop. After the event ended, I had to do other work at the university, he said he would stay to put the equipment in place and if I wanted to call him after that. After we finished our things we saw each other. He was talking with his colleagues, he turned and saw me, we looked at each other, he told others to excuse him and came to me, so that we can be in private. After we talked he shook my hand and then said with a smile: "my hands are always ice cold, don't be surprised", I didn't say anything but I felt it when we touched. In my excitement after the presentation when I was telling him something, I unintentionally addressed him without his degree and he was smiling and said that he didn't even notice and that there is no need for formalities when we are alone and that all these things are for in front of others. In another presentation online I had a problem with the sound and at times it wasn't clear what I was saying, then I got very upset, that I didn't do well and we were chatting all the time, he was by my side, although virtually, and I felt his support, he was telling me kind words - that I was good, to be calm, that everything is fine, that everything passed, not to overthink it, he was sending smiling emoticons. I mentioned my bad trait - that I am very self-critical and I take everything to heart and he sent a big smile. Once when we said "bye" to each other and I left the room, a few minutes later I felt that my phone was missing from my pocket and went back to look for it. He also started looking for it, but we didn't find it, I opened my bag, and surprisingly the phone was there, then he started laughing playfully and said he would call me. I blushed, I headed to the door again and said that I was very carried away, he was laughing very charmingly, as if it was cute for him, we were both laughing. I feel that he likes me, maybe even have feelings for me, what do you think?