Help? Does he like me?

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1. He flirts with me, but is a flirty, friendly person by nature.
2. He openly flirts with other girls, but the one time I mentioned a pretty girl in a picture, his response was a passive "on the inside"
3. His friend have been suspiciously nice to me recently.
4. He is super confident in a large group, but gets noticeably nervous when it's just him and me.
5. He never makes and effort to text me, but does reply to my occasional Facebook message.
6. He looks at me when he makes a joke to see if I laugh.
7. He has given me a one armed, sideways hug on a few occasions. He initiated all of them but one.
8. He's never asked me out or hinted that we should go on a date.
9. He kissed me once as part of a deal, but it was on the lips, and that was never specified in the deal.
10. He obviously talks about me to people, because there is one guy in particular that has been asking my sister if I like my crush and seems to know everything that has happened between my crush and me....and I don't even know the dude.
11. He does hang out with the girl that he asked to homecoming and she obviously likes him.
12. I asked a friend of his if my crush already had a date to the Girls Ask Guys dance, and apparently my crush is "talking to a girl" but doesn't know who she is. I asked him to this dance, and he wasn't able to go, but seemed genuine in saying he would have if he could have.
13. My friend suggested he ask me out, and he seemed genuinely pleased, and according to my friend, his friends agreed that he should ask me out.
14. He ignores me when he's around friends, but is friendly when it's just us two.

Does he like me? Any advice would be helpful!

[Betty]

He likes you only as a friend...that's obvious.