Does he like me? Is there any hope?

I think you need to watch a certain episode of "How I met your mother"

It appears you are on the proverbial Hook!

I have no idea what proverbial hook means.

I wouldn't rush into anything yet, it is clear his feelings are completely messed up from a recent break up.

I'm not wanting to rush into anything, I know he's a mess. I'm just worried that he's leading me on, and doesn't feel the same about me and is just letting me down gently when he says he's not ready instead of telling me the truth that he doesn't really like me. Though to be fair that'd be a dickish thing to do I guess.

There's a simple way, ask him.

So I slept with this guy one night, on the night we were both sort of saying we liked eachother quite a lot- we knew eachtoher through association but hadn't really met before (he's the flatmate of my friend's boyfriend) but we spent the night talking and eventually got so drunk we started kissing and yeah, I went home with him and slept with him which was an error on both parts. We spent the entire next day talking and sometimes we kissed. When I left he walked me to the station and hugged me goodbye and we exchanged numbers etc- it wasn't like a proper one night stand.

We spent a long time texting and he was going to come round for dinner. The thing was he'd told me he'd recently broken up with his girlfriend of 2 years and he was a mess from it. Then eventually I called him to ask what he wanted from me, because I didn't want to be used. He said because he'd recently come out of a relationship and he'd been such a mess from it he didn't think it'd be fair on me to start anything just yet, and said he was tempted to say maybe in a month or so but didn't want to plant any seeds, which was fair enough.

The other night I invited him to a bar, we labelled it as friends, and we spent the entire night talking to eachother. Sometimes he'd come out with weird things, such as "imagine you were on a date... imagine you were in this situation" which I found it hard to interpret, and he bought me drinks and we were talking about quite personal things sometimes and sometimes he'd just make it sound like there was something more between us (for example, when talking about my ex boyfriend he went "my god you know how to pick them. I'm even starting to judge myself"). It was as though he was just making slips of the tongue. There was also a LOT of eye contact and the entire night he was just entirely focussed on me, and at one point he got distracted and looked over somewhere else and then instantly apologised and said it was rude. When he left, he was going to get off and change tubes at the tube station before mine, but decided to change tubes at my tube station because he "hates saying bye on trains" and then when we got off, he gave me a lingering hug and said he'd had a great time.

I sent him a text saying even though we went as friends, I couldn't help but think of it as something more and his reply was "I completely understand and I agree, but I think you must also think it would be a bad idea to try something at the moment".

Saying "at the moment" just makes me think that it's possible in the future. I know he was a complete mess from his break up (which was in early october, so not long ago) and he's still trying to get over that. It just affected him psychologically, he had to go home from university for a few days and became a little depressed. I'm going to keep in contact with him and try to remain friends (we text a LOT, sometimes it seems a little flirty) but I can't help but worry that he doesn't really like me, and he's only trying to let me down gently by saying he's not ready. We both agreed it was a mistake to sleep together.

Thoughts?

There was also a LOT of eye contact

I was wondering, what is the significance of eye contact? I do it all the time because I thought that's what is respectful, but I hope i'm not leading a lot of girls along. I don't get this social thing and i've never had a gf or kissed or had sex. .