This was fun to read.

I'm a shy guy. Some might say painfully shy. I used to know this girl who was super friendly to everyone. I told myself that I needed to make some more friends, and I picked her as my "target" because she had such a gentle smile. I forced myself to interact with her beyond my usual monosyllabic responses and shrugs. One time, she stood right next me and asked her friend, "Why does he tease me when he's so polite to everyone else?" I liked to make her smile. :)

A few weeks later, she started being really shy around me. I didn't know why she changed, but I was worried I had done something wrong, so I backed off. At one point, I had something that I wanted to say to her, but I couldn't get the words out, so I just kinda looked at her and smiled, as if to say, "I'm know what you're up to." (even though I didn't know) She froze up and looked right back at me. As she held her gaze on me, she calmly said to her friend, "He's looking at me."

All that being said, I can't imagine that she liked me the way you've described liking the guy you like. She was soooo much cooler than me. It felt like I was standing at the back of a line of people who wanted to be her friend, and that line stretched out the door and around the block. Nonetheless, it's fun to think about some of things she did (the forgiving smiles; the affectionate glances) and to think that maybe she misses me a little bit.