So here's the deal.

A friend of a friend started to like me. He told my friend, name her L, and she turned around and told me. My first response was.. wtf, i don't know him, lets call him Y, that well.. like i had only hung out with him a couple of times. L said something like she thinks he only wants to get into my pants and probably just thinks your hot and thats it. (btw he lives in a neighboring town and just comes into visit sometimes) then all of the sudden, L came up to me in school and said "oh btw Y got over you, he likes such-and-such now" all i could say was, got over what? i thought he didn't even like me. apparently it was a thing of i stopped talking to him online or something, so he assumed i just didn't like him in general. I was kind of fine with this until last weekend...

Saturday we chilled for a little bit. And i couldn't help but kind of starting to feel bad that i never did anything about the whole situation before hand. I guess it was kind of those things where you look at someone in a knew light after knowing that they had something for you? is that pathetic? well then sunday when we met up with him he was already pretty wasted. I had to help him everywhere after a little bit pretty much, he was super touchy and flirty with only me, but i threw the bulk of that to the booze and that me and his best friend were the one making sure he didn't get into trouble. At one point we went out for a smoke and he was perfectly fine, had bitched about his ex texting him that day like twice, but other than that a pretty happy drunk. Then he totally just sat away from the crowd and started crying for like whole 25 min. I sat there with him... and he started ranting about his ex >he was with for about 4 years, broke up like 5 months prior to this< and mentioned once that he liked me. after that we had to carry him to his room and then i just hung out with other peeps, one of them being his best friend, lets call him Z, i knew him a little better than Y. We got away from everybody after a while because i was starting to feel sick since we were partying the night before as well, we went to go get some medicine from his car. On the way there we were talking about random crap, then i asked Z what happened with this past girl he liked and he said he thinks it was done cause she was still with her boyfriend. Then he said "well i was actually planning to hit on you tonight but after the whole Y thing..." and he kind of stopped there... and then later "and he has been on like 10 dates with >that girl i mentioned earlier, the one L said he liked now< but won't ask her out or do anything"

I dunno, sorry that was sooo long... im gonnna message him on myspace today and ask how he's doing since that last time i saw him we were putting him to bed.... but i dunno, do you think i have a chance or do you think i should respect the other chick and let it be?.. i dunno if he likes her like the way he likes me or vise versa... they aren't dating or anything but... jeeze.. i have no idea what is going on with them.. whatev. what should i do?

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I'd say talk to him - send him a message or an e-mail and ask if he's okay after the party and maybe let him know that you're there for him if he wants to talk about anything. He's clearly still hung up on his ex though, so I'd be careful about taking anything too far just yet. If he was that upset over his ex at the party, I'd be a bit careful about taking things to a romantic level for the time being.

Asides from that, I think you should go for it. I mean, he clearly likes you as a friend, and I don't think you've got anything to lose by sending him a message or something. Good luck!

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