When you are annoying, your behavior is unorthodox.

It is different from what your crush is used to.

He expects you to fawn over him like you have done in the past.

He is used to it when you are showing vigorous signs of interest in him.

This is when you are looking in his direction, waiting to see if he looks back at you.

Furthermore, you are talking to mutual friends about your crush, asking them whether your crush has talked to them about you.

You are dressing sexy and putting on extra makeup to see if that gets his attention.

On some days, you are continually walking by him, scheming to get him to see you and acknowledge you.

These is all typical behavior exhibited when someone has a crush on someone else.

He is used to this behavior.

When it happens, he likes it.

Even though he hasn’t acknowledged you as much as you would want in these moments.

Yes, he has purposely ignored those moments at times to see whether it affects you so intimately that you work that much harder to get his attention.

When this happens, his ego surges.

He knows that in ignoring you in a number of these moments, you wonder why he is.

You wonder why he seemed to notice you last week, but is suddenly not noticing you this week.

Your crush loves the effect this has on you by putting you in a panic.

This is when he hears from mutual friends that you are worried that he doesn’t like you, given that he isn’t reacting to all the signs of interest that you have been sending in his direction.

All of this keeps him in an enviable position of being able to acknowledge you when he pleases, and not acknowledge you when he pleases.

This keeps your crush in full control of your emotions and thoughts.

This in turn gives him a bigger ego boost.

Obviously, this wishy-washy behavior from a guy frustrates just about any girl that has a crush on him.

What happens next is no surprise.

You stop showing the obvious signs of interest that you once did.

By contrast, you become annoying.

You aren’t looking in his direction anymore.

Rather than staying quiet like you once did whenever he is in the vicinity, you get loud.

You speak up as though you don’t care that he is there, and talk to everyone in the vicinity but him.

When you so happen to be walking down a hall or sidewalk, and he so happens to be walking towards you, you are pulling out your smartphone and acting as though you are talking to a phantom guy on the other end, completely ignoring him as you walk passed each other.

All of this annoying behavior gets your crush’s attention because it is unorthodox.

He isn’t used to this behavior from someone he knows has a crush on him.

You aren’t doing what you once were, and he doesn’t know what to think.

He gets worried that he has lost your interest, and thereby, lost control of the situation.

With this realization, he panics and does what he can to get your attention.

The longer you keep being annoying by taking away the attention that you were once giving him, the more desperate he becomes to get your attention back.

All of a sudden, he is talking to mutual friends about you, endeavoring to get information from them about whether you have talked to them about him.

He is doing everything in his power to make eye contact with you whenever he spots you in his vicinity.

Once he observes that you keep avoiding eye contact with him, he decides that he will make more of an effort to get physically closer to you whenever he sees you.

In these moments, he is walking towards you, and going as far as attempting to say hello or nod at you as he is about to walk by.

At this point, the shoe is on the other foot.

Thanks to your annoying behavior, he is the one who is now desperate to get your attention.