Dear Ellie,

I really need help....well there is this guy that I really like (Joey) and supposidly he likes me to. (He is a sophmore and I'm a freshman but we have the same geometry class so thats how we know each other.) And well his friends were trying to get us to talk and everything so they gave me his number and him my number. So we kinda started talking like on myspace and texting, but we never really talked in person. We are both really shy when it comes to people we like so whenever we did talk in person the conversations were very short with a lot of awkward silence. But anyways I started hearing things like he didn't even like me and was just messing with me so I got mad and didn't want to talk to him. But then I got over it cuz all of his friends kept telling me that none of that was true and Joey really did like me. I thought he was mad at me though and I told him I was sorry that I got all mad and he told me that he was never mad at me. And so we started talking again and we went to the Valentines Dance together at our school. I finally thought that we were getting closer but then I felt like he was pulling away. We kinda stopped talking after that for a reason that I don't even know. Then i was gone for a whole week and then it was spring break...I tried texting once over spring break but he acted like a jerk for some reason so i stopped. Ever since then we haven't talked at all...but I still really like him. And this week I found out that Joey had heard that I was completely over him...so I kinda think that might be why he stopped talking to me but I never said anything like that!! And I was going to ask him about it but I got scared so I didn't because I don't even know if he still likes me. What should I do??

please help!!!

Love
heartbroken