Was I giving the wrong idea to him?
Hello to everyone reading this and thank you for your time!
Ok so I'm almost 18 (Jan next year) and I met this guy "John" who's 27 whilst volunteering for a charity shop. I only see him once a week when I go and volunteer and we never really spoke to each other until about a month ago (we met in April this year).
I'm a very 'touchy' girl who doesn't mind being hugged etc and it's a well established fact in the shop. We have each other's number and text or facebook each other during the week.
But recently he's started to get overly touchy with me... like he'll now come up and hold me by the hips more often that ever - I don't mind being held by the hips, but it's more the frequency of it that makes me feel slightly uncomfortable and perhaps thinking along the wrong lines.... Was I giving him the wrong idea by allowing him to be 'touchy'? Or am I just getting slightly paranoid?
EDIT:
Oh and as a joke, me and John are an 'item' in the shop - everyone jokes about us and teases us but at the same time, we all know it's a joke. Should this have been my warning signal? I have established with everyone that our friendship can go beyond friends in the sense that I take him as an older brother - so it's a brother-sister relationship in my defence and everyone seemed fine with it.
Yet, last week he facebooks me questioning why we can't be 'friends' and not 'brother-sister' because being friends gives him hope (this was after I wrote 'my brother' at the end of the last message). I was able to make him back down on the questionning but was this another sign that he's beginning to fancy me? I know I don't like him beyond a friend/brother, but I'm getting more unsure about what he feels towards me.