Yea, I don't get it either. I can be talking and laughing with a person, and still believe that they think I'm the biggest scumbag on earth, or a '*****', or an idiot, or all of the above. But maybe they really have the same fears and are just better at covering it up. At least that's what I tell myself. He also might just like the way you look and not really want to get involved.

If you want to go deeper, as I tend to do, I think he see's himself as the alpha, and maybe his friend is even lying to you about him being in a relationship. If any of that is the case, I say screw him for lack of a better term. I'm beginning to question what I meant by that. I fear that I think like a girl- separate issue. Find someone with more compassion, we are more than just bags of flesh.