He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

I was stuck talking to Hippolytus this afternoon.

A bit of background... I met Hippolytus either early last year or the end of the year before. Being friends with Metis he came and sat and talked to us while we waited- about his neutering of all things. I'd never paid attention to him nor did he never really crossed my time until about nine or ten months ago. Metis informed me one evening that she had been lucky enough to have had a conversation with him when I wasn't around, about how he fancied me. Flattered and amused I noted it in my journal and quickly forgot about it. I wasn't interested in him, and beside that he's been with Lamiai for 8 years and they have four children.
That was until a few months ago when it started getting serious. While Metis was on her way home Hippolytus pulled over, covertly because Lamiai would not have been happy to know that they were friends, and told her that he really, really, really liked me. LIKED ME! I was flattered, but more amused than anything.
It isn't that I thought/think myself better than Hippolytus that we found entertaining, its more that he's just so not my type and how obvious he was once we actually started paying attention. Everyone would tease me about it but no one said anything to him. This went on for months. Until today...)

I had thought after yesterday that he was no longer interested in me- he seemed not to be looking at me as much as he used to. Before every time I turned in his direction he was ogling me (me!). Alas, I spoke to him this afternoon.
The most memorable moments of the conversations were these...

-Hippolytus was talking about how he had gone driving down the coast a few times. I sarcastically- and stupidly- said "next time you go, you know where I live." He responded with "you don't know how many times I've thought about it." Then he stopped himself quickly and tried to come up with something that sounded less like it actually was. A 'because, you know, once you said... that you'd never been down there' response to cover a slip.
-I reiterated how we had almost been neighbours. He had said that he wouldn't have minded that.
-We were discussing Lamiai, because I wanted to keep bringing the conversation back to that (the way that I did with Atlas last year, after I discovered that he had a missus so that I could remind myself (and him a little) that there was someone else to consider.) Of course he wasn't painting a pretty picture of his relationship with her (they had a brief fling, she got pregnant and they stayed together because of that and the subsequent children). At one point he was discussing how things weren't working and I know he was just about to say that he had to sort things out, as in leave her, but he caught himself. (Once again I wish that I had a voice recorder).
.When Metis finally turned up we discussed possibly hitting the town tomorrow and she made a point of saying that if Hippolytus wanted to come out, if he was allowed to, that we would be at NAME WITHHELD.

Do I want to go? Do I really want him to turn up? Yes. I do. Did I flirt a little today? Yes, I did. Will I do anything if I have the chance... I hope not.