Straight Men, I Need Your Opinion

I mean, as far as I know, there is only one straight man who reads this, but onward...

That non-hypothetical message I wrote to Hot Brazliian Guy will probably get bumped off the first page with this post, but read it anyway if you haven't already. Or read it afresh so you still have it in your head.

So there was never any response to that thing over a month ago. And Hot Brazilian Guy has a tendency to disappear from work, for reasons unbeknownst to me, like family drama, or other jobs, or slackeriness, or whatever. Maybe two days ago, I suddenly saw him in receiving. "Whaaaaaat?" was basically the only thing I said to him as I dashed by. He called out a greeting in return, but I was on my way places...and nervous that he was back all of a sudden.

Today, I was working in the fridge and he opened the door, calling "All right, where's Holly?"

Being the only one in the fridge, I called, "Yo!"

He walked up to me, saying, "So, I was on facebook..." and I immediately looked away, possibly making an embarrassed face but resigned to hear whatever was coming next, which I was pretty sure I wasn't going to like. I proceeded to awkwardly arrage yogurts throughout all of the following. "...and I'm only on there sometimes...I don't always check my messages, but I was looking for something that my boy sent me, and I saw your message. So, I'm really really flattered...and, like, a billion years later...I mean, it's so late by now that I had to say something in person" (this part's a little hazy as it was hard to hear from all the blood rushing past my ears) "I'm super flattered..." (here he held out his arms for a hug and pecked me on the cheek) "so, I'm really flattered...and drinks are on me." Here I looked at him, totally thrown, as 'I'm really flattered' bespeaks rejection in my book, whereas agreeing to drinks is...I guess open to interpretation? As he backed out of the fridge: "come by Macri (the bar in Williamsburg where he works) sometime, okay?"

.....WHAT DOES THIS MEAN???????????!

It sounds to me like "I'm flattered, but no thank you, but let's still be cool buddies 'cause I'm still gonna be really nice to you." But not even the thickest of stupid, stupid boys would possibly say that without expicitly saying "I've got other things going on" or "I just think you're chill and we should be friends" or something...riiiiiiiiiiight?

Except that this is also the person who asked me on two different occasions if I had a boyfriend, and who said we should do yoga together but then never made that happen.

If you're rejecting someone, albeit kindly, you would wait til some other time to extend an open invitation to something, no?

On the other hand, if you're accepting someone's profession of crushiness, would you say "I'm really flattered" eight hundred times?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhh. Rgh.

What the hell, guys. Will everybody just tell me what the hell?