When you really start to feel a strong connection with your best friend regardless of sexual orientation or gender. You feel like you always want to be with them. When you hangout, you want to be touchy-feely but it's not necessarily romantic. Just close. You get a bit jealous when they hangout with other people and you think about them all the time. It's like being in love with them without wanting to do them. Unless you do...then go you!

When you have deep emotions for your "best" friend and you really really want it to stop because you told them and he/she doesn't see you in that way but they continue to talk to you and flirt in a way because they know. You hurt when you see them with other people but continue to cheer them on because you love them and want nothing but the best for them. You have so many mixed emotions about the entire situation and it just keeps getting more and more complicated. Maybe you should just tell them to stop leading you on. Yeah, they're your best friend, but that doesn't give them the right to play with your emotions just because they like the attention. Or maybe you should stop being clingy and paranoid. They'll be others. Wanna be just friends? Well fine. Tell them you're just friends, if they don't like it, that's them. They need to get their priorities straight.

you really like him but you just tell him your are best so then he will keep talking to you

A person who you have been friends with for a very long time, and you love with all your heart. You pretend to be happy for them when they have a great relationship with a great person, you know it. You love them so much and you hope they are happy. You don't care about anything, as long as their happy. You will wait until they notice how you feel. You have to lie to them when they ask who they like, or if they like them. You drop hints, but they are oblivious to the fact that you like them. You will never tell him, but you can dream.

You have a crush on your Best friend hopefully they say yes if you say you like them