Being that a guy isn’t used to getting looked at by a girl, he is taken by surprise when it happens.
When he caught you looking at him, it stopped him in his tracks.
Taken aback, he was compelled to look back at you too.
In a scenario like this, it isn’t a given that he is attracted to you.
He was surprised, and you mustn’t misconstrue it as a definitive sign that he is attracted to you.
A guy is giving you a definitive sign that he has a romantic interest in you when you stop looking at him, but he continues to look at you.
When you have since stopped looking in his direction, and yet, he keeps looking at you from time to time, he isn’t reacting from surprise any longer.
An attraction towards you is causing him to react.
He is past the initial shock of catching you looking at him.
The reason why he continues to look at you is due to a strong desire that he catches your eye again.
He wants to discover whether you were previously looking at him out of romantic interest, or whether you locked eyes with him by accident.
He is looking for answers.
This aside, there are circumstances where a guy is looking at you, but not because he saw you looking at him.
He was already looking your way before you saw him, staring at you from across the room, or from where he was situated.
This is when you got a sense that someone was looking at you, and moved your line of vision to where you suspected the gaze was coming from.
You weren’t subtle in how you directed your line of vision towards him, and once he realized that you were beginning to look his way, he quickly looked away so that you wouldn’t catch him looking at you.
In a scenario like this, he was already looking at you before you ever laid eyes on him.
He used subtlety in how he went about it, which led you to believe that you were the one who looked at him first.
All of this being said, as a rule of thumb, when a guy keeps looking at you after you stop looking at him, or returns his gaze every so often, he is attracted to you.
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