My friend is in the military and I've known him since the 7th grade. We had a falling out back then, which caused our friendship to end, but we became friends again after he apologized for what happened back in January. We had a really strong bond before our friendship ended in middle school and I also liked him at the time. But since we've rekindled our friendship, my feelings have grown and I don't know what to do. When he was in boot camp over the summer, I constantly wrote him letters so that he didn't feel alone while under all of that pressure to succeed. Now, he has a little bit more freedom (he has his cell phone now) and we talk almost daily because he has classes and works a lot, so he doesn't get much sleep. I just sent him a care package that he received on Monday and I was hoping that this would be "The hint of all hints" that I like him. I'm not sure if this worked 😂 because my friends always say "you're thinking like a girl, not a guy". I'm just afraid of telling him that I like him and causing it to ruin our friendship. Also, he told me something about how he's noticed that a lot of his fellow Marines try to date the female Marines, but he'd "never do that" for some reason. But on the other hand, I'm afraid of not telling him and thinking "what if?". It's just so hard to tell how he feels or if he has any clue that I like him because he hasn't made it evident if so. We even video called each other two weekends ago while he had free time because I was interviewing him for a presentation in my theology class. We ended up not even talking much about the actual assignment... we talked more about memories and spent the majority of the time laughing at each other's stories being that he's in the military and I'm in college. Anyway, here's a picture of the care package that he just received on Monday. Does it seem evident that I like him, or am I really just "thinking too much like a girl"?