Could really use some advice on this situation!!!, Dont know what to think about his actions or my sudden feelings! Options

[Marrisa3636]

I graduated this past May..but At the beginning of the year, everything was normal between me and one of my teachers, but as the year went on, I realized that he started doing strange things, like telling other kids(as a joke), that they should not talk to me, even make eye contact with me..or one time he said in class one day, that he loved me and that I will always have a special place in his heart. He would make these little remarks like, once I saw him in the hallway and it was crowded and he came out of one of the classes and told these kids, hey you guys need get to class and clear the hallways, because there is a beautiful girl in the hallway. He saw me before graduation, he told me I looked beautiful, and said that this year has been a year he won't forget, because he feels that he has become a better person, teacher, everything because I opened his eyes to giving people an opportunity to succeed.The year was full of moments like that. Now, I am starting to question how I feel about him, It's like he slowly seduced me all year? I just don't know if these 'feelings' between us are real?

I am gonna be 19 and he is gonna be 25. I have talked to some friends and some family.. and most just tell me I just took what he said wrong, and I should forget it..but everytime I get convinced, yeah..it probobly didn't mean anything..or he didnt mean what he said like that, something else happens..and it makes me think otherwise.

As for me, in all honesty, I do like him, as we did spend a lot of time together last year, but I just can imagine what other people would say, and Its sort of like, my heart tells me one thing, but the reality of the way people think makes me feel like I have to think otherwise. I don't want either of us to get a bad reputation, and I know that people could think things happened before Graduation. I mean, he told me at the end of the year, that he did like me, and hoped that any guy that dates me, realizes how lucky he really is. I really dont know if these feelings are 'real' or if my mind is just playing tricks on me.

I caught up with my teacher recently.. and it was at school and when he saw me, he told me, 'hey..before you leave, you have to check out my office..you haven't been up there yet.' So, He went to class and I went up to see what he was talking about, and he had this pic. of us that I gave him at the end of the year, framed. The picture kinda shocked me...I was like...huh? I mean, I gave any teacher that I had taken a photo with at the end of the year, a copy of the pic. and some of them tacked it on the wall, or just have it like leaning on something in their office, or some just took it home, but I was surprised that he framed it...I was like..wow..really was not expecting that. Should I just take that as a compliment, that he doesn't want the pic getting messed up, or take that as something...weird??? Its like the only two things he has up too..like he doesnt have any other things up in his office yet. Part of me says, wow, thats nice of him, and then the other part is like...alittle strange???

What do you guys think?!?

[Marrisa3636]

The thing that really gets me, is that at the start of the year, we didnt really get along, I mean I had a hard time at the start of the year and we bumped heads about everything! So everyone always was hearing me complain about his class, or that I had to fight for every point, or whatever it was that was bothering me that day. But then as the year went on, I guess you can say I grew up alittle..I mean, i was always a mature person..but I really learned so much about myself... and I started to change the way I was approaching his class, and he made tons of changes too..and it was like we both kind of grew on eachother. We sort of made each other change, and lucky for both of us, they were mostly changes for the better..and I like to think we are better people because of some of the stuff that we went through. I dont know if any of that makes sense. I mean, I am not that blind..and like I know there are feelings there but, its like a part of me..likes him alot, but I dont know if its the "like" everyone thinks it is.

Only my close friends really knew about any of the remarks he would make. And I mean...some of my friends pick on me already, and there is nothing even going on between us. The whole year, they would always be making remarks about how funny it would be if we ended up together... and what was even stranger, was I even had some other 'Faculty' members that would tell me, " oh, well...lucky for you he likes you, cause he does he likes you', or ' ohh you know he loves you', stuff like that. It was kind of like...everyone saw "something", except for me...