I recently hooked up with a friend, we’d worked together several months prior to this and had been flirting on and off during this time. We always mentioned that we’d seen each other on hinge but we never did anything due to working together.
I left the job that we both worked at and shortly after he linked me on hinge and we started talking and agreed to move our friendship forward. We then hooked up and he kicked me out right after we had slept together.
We then hadnt seen each other for several months and didnt speak either, however I saw him again randomly whilst seeing some friends at my old workplace. The first time I saw him he was very smiley when seeing me and looked happy but we didnt really chat as he was with some friends and I was with mine, so we just did the generic hi how are you. Since then i saw him again and it was the same thing, but he barely looked at me or said anything the 2nd time, but i do think i saw him checking me out (i dont think he noticed i clocked this). I also checked him out a few times and think he saw me do this
The third time we were at a mutal friends party and he was a lot more chatty, he started conversations with me and seemed more aware of my presence if that makes sense, he seemed more like his normal self and we were a lot more chatty than the last time.
I do still fancy him, but am worried about getting hurt and am happy with seem to still be okay enough to be friendly. I just wanted other opinions to know if he is only being friendly so it isnt awkward around our friends or if he is making the effort because he feels bad for what happened between us.
He also always views my instagram stories which i know doesnt mean much
based on our friendship, I know he is a good person and kind, and i think thats why I was willing to keep him as a friend because part of me thinks if we hadn’t rushed into something so soon after his breakup, we both might have been in a better place to start something.