This is a first for him.

He has never sent you coffee while you were at work.

It was a warm surprise that raised the eyebrows of several of your co-workers.

It made you feel special to receive that kind of attention.

But it got you thinking.

Why would your best friend, who is a guy, surprise you with coffee while you were at work?

As a best friend, he has been a godsend, but what he just did is different.

It has triggered a lingering question in your mind about the possibility he likes you romantically.

Surely, your co-workers were instrumental in putting the idea in your mind as well.

The look on their faces as you accepted the coffee said it all.

Before drawing unwarranted conclusions over the coffee he just sent you, think back to what you have been telling him of late.

Have you been particularly stressed at work and complaining to him about it?

If you have been unusually stressed at work, sending coffee to your workplace was a gesture to make you feel better and be reassured that he empathizes with your plight.

A one-time occurrence of this isn’t a rock-solid indication he likes you romantically.

What happens moving forward is how you determine whether he likes you.

Assuming you are no longer complaining about work and have moved on to a happier place in your mind in the next few weeks, there should be no reason for him to send anything to your workplace to cheer you up in the foreseeable future.

During this time, if he chooses to send you something else at work, such as lunch, his motives are no longer about cheering you up.

After all, at this stage you are no longer complaining about work.

You have been in a much better place mentally for a few weeks.

Yet, he has chosen to send you lunch this time around out of nowhere.

This is an escalation.

He was encouraged by how positively you reacted to him sending you coffee a few weeks back.

He wants an encore.

Sending lunch to your workplace is a loud encore.

It goes much further than what a typical best friend would do.

Yes, there is a strong desire in him to have you react with the same positive energy as you did when he sent coffee to your workplace a few weeks prior.

That is a powerful rush that makes his day.

Nonetheless, there are ulterior motives for this escalation as well.

He is fully aware women are attracted to and gravitate towards men who demonstrate an ability to provide.

By initially sending you coffee and escalating to lunch a few weeks later, he wants to impress on you his ability to provide.

Being your best friend, he is worried about coming right out to tell you he likes you.

This scares him, as it challenges the dynamic of the friendship he has with you.

To be safe, he would much rather you read between the lines.

After he has sent you lunch a few more times, he is counting on you finally texting him with a message along the lines of “So, when are you taking me out to dinner?”