Yet another "does he like me" question... but hey, you'll get some points out of the deal?

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This is a bit long, but you really need it to understand the sitch.

So I've known this guy since we were freshmen in high school (when we first met, I picked on him a lot, and he thought I liked him), and we joked around a lot with a group of people in LA class sophomore year. Junior year, we discovered we were both stuck on the local university campus for the same 2 hours a week and we had coffee and chatted during that time for the whole semester. The group of people from LA in sophomore year has the running joke that this guy and I would make a good couple, and they constantly tease us about it. He always brushed it off and so did I. We'd always joke that there'd be a murder before a wedding. It wasn't until we started hanging out that it stopped being really awkward because of all the jokes.

In May, he said in this really offhand way, "we're kind of perfect for each other, huh?" And I said "yeah, pretty much." And he immediately changed the subject. We had always kept it as friends, and we are good together as friends. It was pretty much understood that we don't like each other romantically- he accused me of liking him... and I said "you know I don't like you that way, right?" and that was after he was adamant about not liking me.

So, fast forward to senior year going the whole summer without really talking face to face. We had chatted online- nothing too serious- kept it light.

I asked him to go to homecoming as friends because it's our senior year and he's never been to a dance. He has a neurotic mom who won't let him do anything (with any friends, not just me), so he didn't go, even though it was a whole group of people. On the night of the dance I facebook'd him: "my dress is preeeety and you're not here... :'(" He said, "sigh... i guess i'll just have to cry myself to sleep tonight, oh well." and I said "will you come to the next dance? you need to go to at least one high school dance your senior year!" and then he said nothing and never mentioned it.

Now, I've got this other guy who's really into me (I'm not so into him.... long story), and I was talking about how this other guy wants me to marry him, and he got a bit weird. He was working on a business project, and he joked "well, (my name), if you started a successful company, I might have to marry you." He knows I'm really good at business.

We then went for a walk around the lake near school during our off period (he didn't want to go initially, but I convinced him). We chatted about me getting married young, he was like "but I thought you don't believe in marriage" (he believes marriage is for life, regardless of religion).

Near the end of the walk, I told him what my married name would be with this other guy and he was like "that's terrible. What about (my 1st name) (my last name) (his last name)" and I said, "actually it'd be (my first name) (my middle name) (his last name), I wouldn't keep my name." Then I said "it'd be cute. Our initials would be JDD and KDD if we got married," and he laughed.

So, is he just being friendly, because it's been 3 years of just being friendly, or does he like me romantically? I think we're excellent together as friends, but I don't know if that would translate to a good romantic relationship. What you y'all think?

Thanks for reading this far. :-) points!