A guy likes you if…
...he references inside jokes or uses a nickname for you.
“Hey slowpoke, remember the time you thought you could beat me at track practice, because I do hahaha”
...he sends long replies.
Interested: “the movie was good, i thought it was going to be dumb but it was actually pretty funny haha. You’d probably like it. There was this one part that reminded me of you, the main girl character was trying to take this test and the guy was cheating off her, so she wrote in all the wrong answers because her grade was so high it wouldn’t matter, but it made him fail the whole class. I was like yep casey would definitely do that lol”
Disinterested: “Yeah it was a pretty good movie”
...he asks personal questions.
Interested: “How long have you been into pole-vaulting? And like how did you start, it’s seems kind of random but it’s pretty cool too”
Disinterested: “Yeah it’s pretty cool that you pole-vault”
...he compliments you.
Interested: “Hey, congrats on the tennis win the other day, i saw you did really well. Maybe i couldn’t beat you if your team just won the championship lol”
Disinterested: “oh did you end up winning? Cool.”
...he initiates the conversation.
Interested: “What do you think about this English presentation needing to be 15 minutes long, because I am really not feeling up to it haha”
Disinterested: “Oh hey, what’s up? I’m doing ok”
...he says what you’d be doing if he was with you.
Interested: “If I was there there would definitely not be any brownie mix left to make brownies with, that i can tell you”
“Well i’m the most entertaining person on the planet, so if i was there there is no way you’d be this bored”
Disinterested: “That sounds boring, it sucks you have to sit through that”