idk the game

am i overreacting?

I recently had my first real one-on-one hangout with a guy I’ve known for 2 months (we met through work). beside from this hang out we been hanging out with our friends (a dating couple) like every week. watching movies and eating out. it’s fun but now im over thinking. what’s is going on between us. my friends knew i liked him and i kinda wanted to hangout with him to get to know him more but other people around kinda made it hard cuz i could talk as i would of liked

so what happened is i asked to him to hang out, he said yes he seemed really excited. asking me what i wanted to do. and basically i could plan the whole thing. he is like very respectful and a gentleman when talking to me. so we hung out yesterday, he picked me up, opened my car door and every door we walked through for the whole night , paid for mini golf, food, drinks, and offered to get me anything. i was like let me pay you back etc he is like no i want to it’s on me. like if u want anything you can get it it’s all on me. and reassured me he wanted to. He told me to play whatever music I liked because he wanted to know what I’m into and get to know me more as a person. We talked for hours with zero awkwardness. and i really expected it to be embarrassing and awkward. but omg it was the most natural thing in the world. and after the movie we just drove around talking more

He texted me afterward saying he had a really good time and wants to hang out again. He also mentioned his mom might start asking about me if she finds out we’re hanging out, which felt kind of significant? he talked future tense saying we should do this etc. he seems like he sees me in his life for some time(?) but all my friends that knew are like this is a date.. you just don’t know it and saying it’s a hang out to keep it low. but he says he enjoys my company and really likes being around me…we started to talk abt how we first met and he thought i didn’t like him..and we talked abt family. but buying everything is crazy especially for something that isnt a date.

again , it felt like he genuinely likes me and is interested in building something.

But someone told me he’s probably just “going with the flow” and “if something happens, it happens.” Now I’m spiraling.

Is “going with the flow” normal early on? Or does that usually mean someone isn’t that serious? and won’t take actions. he won’t tell his friend that he likes me…and i guess this friend told him that i like him so…that’s not really what i wanted. but he still is okay with hanging out one-one

Based on his actions, would you interpret this as romantic interest or just being nice?

I don’t want to force/ rush anything, but I also don’t want to be naive. like is he connection based ? he is also a very traditional guy, so i think he would ask to hang out next and etc