Hi everyone! I appreciate that these posts can be annoying but I am genuinely unsure whether I have a chance with this guy. So basically, I have been good friends with this guy in my college course for a few months. He is gorgeous, smart, confident and we get on extremely well. We are in the same friend group, and although he's very attractive I never really saw him as more than a friend. That is, until recently. I don't know what changed, I just know that I really fancy him all of a sudden. I would be considered very attractive, an 8-9, and he has told me several times drunk that he thought I was good-looking. We are both tactile people and are comfortable touching each other in a non-romantic way, but I am noticing it more recently. Perhaps only because I want to though. We have recently been in situations where it was just the two of us and have ended up hand-holding casually. He always looks me right in the eye when we are talking. I only really noticed this recently when I made a really big effort to return it (I am terrible at eye contact). I know that he would like a girlfriend because he recently went on a date (not something to worry about, he told me he wasn't that into her romantically). I appreciate that it is probably difficult to know whether he likes me owing to the fact that you don't know either of us, but maybe you could give me some advice on how to encourage any advances he might be making?