Like 'like in a boy-girl' kind of like?

Recently, a boy showed me his heart and told me how he felt for me. I could never take confessions like those lightly and easily. I've had two boys confess to me in the past, and my initial reactions were doubt and something close to mistrust. Were they leading me on? Were they playing and toying with my feelings? But with this present confession, instead of logging out of my messenger and trying to squeeze out of him that he was probably joking, I listened to what he had to say and formed mental images of us together as a couple in my head. I tried to make it sound happy, but the reality is that we don't even know each other too well to actually have a relationship. Few with this words, he poured out his heart and made me feel lucky to have somoene like him like me in a boy-girl way. I intentionally did not reply fast enough because with situations like this, you can never be sure with how he's going to take your words or your actions. I don't really recall what I told him that day though, but I'm quite sure it made him uncomfortable because now, we barely talk anymore. Actually, even before, we never really talked a lot. It was more of a hi-hello kind of relationship. Sometimes, I don't understand why he likes me in that way anyway. What did he see in me? There were a lot of prettier girls around me. But who I am to question his feelings and his motives, right?


In a lighter sense, all the gazes, looks, and the glances that I see him steal from me occassionally make me question how things are going to work out between us. Maybe I'm taking this way out of proportion. Hopefully, things will fizzle out right before the year ends.