you can't be friends with the opposite sex

i feel sick to my stomach. i feel like i've done something wrong, very wrong, and i've done absolutely NOTHING.

in a nutshell, i have been associating with someone of the opposite sex. and associating isn't a metaphor for something else, i have literally just been talking and not just that, it's been strictly work related.

oh what a mess i've made.

this guy, let's call him 4, knows a lot about the job i'm going into. I will sort of be working with him when i begin, but not in the same building. since he knows everything, i thought it would make sense for me to ask him about the job and the ins and outs. (no pun intended)

4 is great... but 4 reminds me of someone else, not an ex boyfriend, not my brother (eww), but instead he reminds me of myself. I look at him and think he would get along fantastically with my friends and he makes me cry with laughter. i've said a gazillion times before to 4 and people we work with; '4 is a female version of me'

now i think he likes me. well, not so much think, i'm quite certain. he just invited me, which is what has sparked this post, to his best friend's birthday. it just made me think of when A and i had been together for a while and he announced to me that he had decided that he was ready to 'present' me to his friends at his christmas parties and birthdays. hehe, i still can't think of him saying that without giggling, i love when people whose second language is english speak so properly.

i could be reading waaaaay too much into it. but i don't think i am, i think i'm correct.