Is my crush leading me on?

my crush knows I like him and he told me he wanted to be friends, but now when we talk he seems really flirty like he be like poke :) or like (Hugs you) and is he leading me on
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then after he's flirty he gets cold and doesn't talk to me for a couple of days then he talks to me again and he's really confusing me
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+1 y
and when I told him I liked him he said it was hard because he might have feelings for someone else but he liked me
Is my crush leading me on?
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