Being polite or gained confidence??

[candykisses]

A little background on the situation I am seeking advice about. I have liked this guy for a few months and we are both shy. I decided to make the attempt to let him know that I was interested in him.(waving and smiling and saying hi whenever I saw him) Well that went really well, he started to initiate the same things as well. So I then took the next step and tried to start a conversation with him. I called him over to me a couple of times and we had two very, very short conversations, of nothing really. But since we have been greeting each other and both of us letting ourselves get caught looking at each other, I decided to try and have a longer conversation with him. Last week, me, my friend and a friend of his were talking and he came by and my friend called him over. When he came over my friend did alot of the talking, so I didn't get a chance to talk to him that much. I did notice out of the corner of my eye that he was looking at me a couple of times. As he was leaving he looked me right in the eye and said have a merry christmas, pretty much ignoring my friend and his friend as he did so and left.

 

I was wondering what I could for him to let him know that I am truly interested in. Since I am very shy and I was afraid to tell him, I decided to give him a Christmas card. I got one that I thought would make him laugh. So I was going to give it to him on Friday when I was going to see him. I told his friend that if he saw him to let him know that I had something for him. About 20 minutes later he came over to me and I gave him the card, and he told me that I didn't have to do that. But I told him I know but I wanted to. Anyway he opened it in front of me and he liked it, it brought a smile to his face. I thought he would leave soon after since, we really haven't had any type of detailed conversation, but he just started talking to me. Asking questions and telling me what he did for last Christmas. I in turn asked questions and gave some personal info about me. At one point someone came up but he didn't leave (like he has done in the past when someone has come over). We boht looked at the person that was at the end of counter where we were to see if she was going to help this patron, which she did and that let us continue our talk. He even teased me at one point and he had the sweetest smile when he did so. At one point I thought the conversation was over, because he said well I don't see you before the day is out have a happy holiday. But we started talking about something else. In all the convesation lasted for about 15 minutes. There was no break or awkwardness between us. If you were to walk up, you would think we have been friends for a while, instead of it being our first full conversatoin.

 

So finally my question...does it seem like he was just being polite because I gave him the card, or does it seem like that me giving him the card gave him the confidence that he needed (knowing 4sure that I like him)to strike up a conversation with me? Does it seem like he is interested?