<human>: One of my closest friend, let's call him Steve, told me yesterday that he has feelings for me. He's made it quite clear it's not a small crush, he told me he's never felt this way about anyone and is "hung up" on me (he's been acting strange recently and struggling to focus on finals. He told me it was because of a guy, which obviously later turned out to be me). 

I wasn't too shocked when I found out, he hadn't be too subtle with his feelings (messaging he on facebook all the time, like all the time about everything, and always making excuses to touch me such as patting my head, hugging and resting his head on my shoulder). I didn't like these actions but I just told myself I was being crazy and making a big deal of friendly actions. 

When I found out, I first told him that I wasn't gay and that there was zero chance of anything happening between us ever. Before he told me he said he was terrified to tell this guy (me) because he didn't want to lose his best friend and was worried it would damage their (our) friendship. After I found out I said "this doesn't change anything, we're still friends" and I meant it.

The problem is, it does change things. Steve told me yesterday and today when we saw each other I was just really uncomfortable around him. I want to pretend like nothing has happened but it just feels awkward, I know he's thinking about me in a way that I don't think about him.

I'm torn because I feel horrible about being uncomfortable around him, but I do plain and simple. He's a great friend and it'd be near impossible to cut him out of my life (we run two college societies and a newspaper together) but I can't pretend things haven't changed, as much as I want to.

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<bot>: – One of my closest friends, who is gay, revealed he has major feelings for me and I'm now uncomfortable around him.