Is he interested?

[Aquamelon]

So I'm friends with this guy I met online through a game, playing together every night and a group of friends for 3 months. Some drama happens which cause me to quit, he befriends during this time and we exchange skype info which leads up to exchanging facebooks. From the moment we exchange our facebook accounts we start talking almost every night on skype for hours on end even when we're not playing the game together. He is always the one who reaches out to me first and requests that I join him on skype to chat. During out conversations we talk about our past failed relationships and other aspects of our lives. Suddenly one night he starts hardcore complimenting me. Telling me he is looking at all my pictures and that I 'look good' in this pic and that. The recent two day old pic he tells me I have beautiful eyes (this is after an hour or more of him teasing me about my pics saying how he's looking at them and me telling him to stop he's making me blush). I tell him compliments make me uncomfortable and he needs to stop lying to me, he simply laughs it off. During these past few conversations we started specifically trading pictures for each other through facebook. Nothing rated r or anything. I simply asked him one night to take a picture or two for me since he didnt have many. Next day he took the pictures and posted them and in return asked for me to take a picture or two. He requested a few full length pictures as he needed to see if I still looked like the pics I had on my profile from over a year ago. He never mentioned anything whenever I told him I put a new picture up (not one single compliment or kind word but then again I never complimented his pics that he would post for me).

 

The very next time he tells me about a girl he's been talking to and wants to go steady with. He tells me he asked her out through text but she is not responding, through the next 2 hours our conversation more or less involves him being blown off by this girl. The next night after that he mentions she turned him down but he doesn't care he's gonna move right on to the next one. During this day I'm kind of mean (due to my confusion over our relationship) and blow him off. We don't talk for a week. He even blows me off during our game. Two days later I try chatting with him but all he says are one word answers.

 

After that day I tell myself I don't need a crappy friend like this and refuse to try and chat with him first again. I don't hear from him again and as the days go by I start to realize just how bitchy and immature I acted the last day we talked. Guilt makes me send him a message on facebook asking him if we were okay since we hadnt talked in a few days and I was sorry for my attitude. He wrote back to me that we were fine and then began messaging me back and forth all day until we go on skype. Again he starts off with telling me about this new girl he started talking to but she has kids too. I laugh and tell him can't he ever meet a girl with no kids, he immediately says 'Yeah, you' but when I asked him what he meant by that he brushed me off and started talking about something else. The conversation continues on and we talk about dating and he jokes around about sites where people hook up and he teases me about random things. After that night we don't again for the next week or so. This past weekend he sees me on facebook and requests for me to talk to him on skype.

 

As soon as we do he starts talking about how he's done with women and that their all indecisive. I ask him about the last woman he told me about and he says he isnt talking to her anymore. We continue a 3 hour conversation about games and dating in between. Some way into the conversation I mention messages I'm getting from guys on dating sites and how lame they are, he doesn't comment and brushes me off and mentions again how women are so indecisive and don't know what they want. I ask him what he thinks of me and he pauses for a long time, kind of laughs, and asks me what do I mean by that. I simply tell him I'm curious to know what he thinks of me. After another pause he says 'i'm a nice person'. I laugh and jokely tell him how simply that question was and he was making a big deal out of it. So he pauses again and tells me he wants to know what I know what I think of him. I tell him that i think he is a nice guy who makes me laugh and I like to talk to. He doesn't say anything and after a few minutes of silence he changes the subject. We end the conversation on a pleasant note and don't talk again for about 2 days.

 

He messages me tonight and we start off our conversation with him telling me he's talking to the same woman as before. He mentions how she wants him to come see her but he tells me that could take a year (both her and me live in the states and he doesn't) and that she can't visit him due to her kids. I don't say much else on the topic and he changes the subject, although he'll mention small things here and there about how she wants him near and stuff. After a certain point, I feel kind of snubbed by him bringing up this girl to me that he told me two days ago he wasn't even talking to anymore. So I begin telling him about this guy who likes me and keeps sweet talking me in order to make me blush and such. Well as soon as I say that he scoffs and again mentions how indecisive women are. I try and tell him that it's not that it's just although this guy is nice he's not my type. He doesn't say anything and a little later tells me he is going to bed for tonight and that he will talk to me later.

 

I know his pattern by now and I know he won't talk to me again for a couple of days which I'm okay with. I do have feelings for him but I need to know whether or not he's interested. He always mentions other women but somehow I always feel its to make me jealous. Like he always mentions the fact his ex is begging for him to take her back. And if he wants to be friends with me, I'm fine with that. I guess I'm asking here is what is my next step? I mean I thought by me asking him what he thought about me it would be a clear open door for him to tell me he was interested but instead he gave me the worlds most vague answer and tried to turn the tables on me by having me answer my own question about him. I don't know, maybe I'm reading too much into his actions and words. It just feels like he might be interested in me one day and not the next. Should I bother making a move and possibly ruining a friendship? Should I try to take flirtation up a notch and see if he responds?