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"My friend Rosemary Brennan at Smitten received a query from a reader waiting on a crush&amp;#x27;s text response. Looking for some for some boy analysis she kindly passed it over to me for this week&amp;amp;#8217;s edition of &amp;amp;#8220;Single John Responds.&amp;amp;#8221; I am at the precipice of either major flirtation or let down...Last night in...class, I decided to be rather ballsy and write my phone number on the cutest guy&amp;#x27;s essay (which I was correcting). I passed it back to him and booked it out of the class to avoid his reaction. He texted me that evening with general small talk about the class. We exchanged a few harmless messages, and he stopped responding. I have no idea what to do next because I am really into him. I don&amp;#x27;t want to be the one to initiate texting next, and after watching He&amp;#x27;s Just Not That Into You a few too many times, I feel like the ball is in his court. Should I go for it, and just say something? If so... how do you bridge the gap between &amp;quot;class talk&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;small talk&amp;quot; -melanie I have some good new and bad news, Melanie: doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t sound like he&amp;amp;#8217;s into it, but you&amp;amp;#8217;re my new hero. I love the romantic note&amp;amp;#8212;whether it&amp;amp;#8217;s a simple &amp;amp;#8220;I Just wanted to say hi,&amp;amp;#8221; scribbled on a piece of scrap paper, or you&amp;amp;#8217;re very cute technique of including your number on his paper, I&amp;amp;#8217;m a fan and I wish more people engaged in the practice. When I was in college, I distinctly remember writing a slightly less forward version of your note on a piece of note paper, asking the young lady in my Bible as Literature class, &amp;amp;#8220;Do you like tea?&amp;amp;#8221; Indeed she did. And we had tea. And more. It didn&amp;amp;#8217;t work out past a few dates, but it was hugely exciting. If she had been the one to pass me the note I may have lost my mind. So huge props. It&amp;amp;#8217;s unfortunate you&amp;amp;#8217;re in a situation where the &amp;amp;#8220;class talk&amp;amp;#8221; and &amp;amp;#8220;small talk&amp;amp;#8221; needs to be bridged at all. One of my flirting/dating rules is to avoid talking about people&amp;amp;#8217;s jobs. Some of the best talking-to-women advice I ever received was &amp;amp;#8220;Don&amp;amp;#8217;t ask them what they do&amp;amp;#8212;ask them what their passion is.&amp;amp;#8221; Giving a guy your number is hard enough, but you had the balls to take the initiative, write it down and pass it on to him. Who knows why he didn&amp;amp;#8217;t react more positively (the fact that he texted is positive&amp;amp;#8212;and while I&amp;amp;#8217;d have to see the entire interaction over text to be sure&amp;amp;#8212;the fact that he wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t enthusiastic enough to keep the conversation going is not great news). Maybe he has a girlfriend. Maybe he has an issue with your student/corrector roles. Maybe he&amp;amp;#8217;s getting over someone. Maybe he&amp;amp;#8217;s not into it. You won&amp;amp;#8217;t know until you do, and speculating about it is a waste of time. As for what to do next, I think &amp;amp;#8220;I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to initiate texting&amp;amp;#8221; is silly because you already initiating the interaction. It sounds like if there&amp;amp;#8217;s a misstep here it is that you made a move away from your professional relationship&amp;amp;#8212;giving him your number&amp;amp;#8212;and then retreated back into it by discussing the class. There&amp;amp;#8217;s another &amp;amp;#8220;maybe&amp;amp;#8221; here though: Maybe he&amp;amp;#8217;s confused by your follow-up. As far as I&amp;amp;#8217;m concerned, not knowing is the worst. If you&amp;amp;#8217;re dying to know what&amp;amp;#8217;s up, and you think you can take him saying &amp;amp;#8220;no,&amp;amp;#8221; then I would take the extra step toward the fire and just ask him out. Normally I&amp;amp;#8217;d say do it in person, but because this interaction began through writing, why not send him a text that can only be read one way&amp;amp;#8212;no hedging. If, on the other hand, you think his saying &amp;amp;#8220;no&amp;amp;#8221; might flatten you, or send you into a tailspin, then maybe just keep wearing cute outfits to class, not looking him in the eye, and marking his papers with consistent B minuses, and the note, &amp;amp;#8220;Needs more effort!&amp;amp;#8221; Maybe you have some better ideas? Should she keep flirting? What&amp;amp;#8217;s the next text you would send? Is it game over? Have a dating question you want my advice on? Send it here! Should Rihanna be Cautious With Her New Beau? 10 Things Guys Just Don&amp;#x27;t Get About Fashion Vote on the SAG Awards Best Dressed More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! 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