Just Friends?

Through the time that I've been here at school I've learned a few things.
       1. College is pretty dang hard, and just because a class is one credit doesn't mean they're going to make it easy for you to get that credit.
       2. Finding friends is harder to do than you'd think.
       3. When you do make some good friends, that's when it really gets complicated.
Throughout my life I've found myself hanging out with guys more than girls. There are a lot of reasons for this, some I'm aware and some I'm sure are subconscious reasons that I don't understand. But the ones I'm aware of make perfect sense to me.
               Guys can take a punch, I'm a slightly physical person, you annoy me I'll hit you, and most girls just can't take that, especially since I really know how to punch :D. But my main reason is that guys don't tend to judge nearly as much as a lot of girls do. And what with my constant paranoia issues about judgement hanging out with guys has just been easier. A few times in the past people assumed that because I was hanging out and having fun with a guy I must like him, but putting them right was really quite simple.
            At an LDS college however it's completely different. Last year there were a couple guys that I hung out with quite a bit. They were pretty fun, we didn't do much but when we did hang out it was awesome, they'd make fun of me, I'd hit them, they'd hit me back. I loved it. It was my second semester of school and I was really starting to miss all of my guy friends from back home with whom I had a very similar relationship. It seemed so simple in my mind. We were friends, we hung out, teased each other, and would beat each other up if that sounded fun. However to my roommates it was something completely different.
        According to them I was "Flirting" this was beyond me, I've never fully understood the whole concept of flirting, it's completely beyond my weak grasp of logic, and so trying to understand how me being myself around guys constituted as flirting baffled me. After a semester of fighting with one roommate in particular over this disagreement in views I was able to convince her, after a huge blowout one Sunday afternoon, that I saw them as nothing other than friends.
        I had hoped I'd never have to face this dilemma again in my life, but it's started once again, with the same roommate, who now lives in a different apartment. I have a new guy friend who I can just goof around with and have fun. But to her once again it's flirting, and so last night she asked what was going on with me and this guy. I told her nothing, he's Just a Friend, but in her mind I worry that translates to I like him, but I don't want you to know.
         So here I am crossing my fingers and hoping that my old roommate won't complicate another one of my friendships. Because while I've warmed up to the idea of going on dates, the idea of dating still scares the heck out of me.