Questions: Flirting

I know he doesn’t like me because he never tried talking to me or asking me out, and I’ve made it clear that I like him so if he liked me he would have asked me out by now (he isn’t shy at all). But I swear it’s like he keeps trying to get my attention. My friends tell me he’s looking or staring at me and he turns around to look at me a lot. It seems like he wants to keep eye contact because I will notice him looking at me and he won’t look away until I do. He also shows up where I’m at a lot of the time and he tries bringing attention to himself (by talking in front of me, being loud) and looking over at me as if to see if I’m looking at him. I’m annoyed because I want to like him but I just don’t see it going anywhere and I’m confused whether he even likes me. What do you think?

Obviously I’m not going to take his hand as in keep it for myself—need to get that out of the way before you witty ones come in and make a joke about it.

Anywho, here’s the situation. Next week my friends and I are going to watch the movie “Us” which is a rated R horror/ scary movie. I plan to somehow get talking to my crush right as we walk in the theatre, walk right behind him, and plop myself down right next to him.

I’m like 7/10 sure he likes me (they aren’t great odds but he’s a more shy guy so I take what I can get) and plan to like, over exaggerate how scared I am and like grab onto his hand or arm or whatever.

Should I do it? Any recommendations for when or how gradually/how sudden? Has anyone done this before & if you have, did it work for you? I’m just really trying to make the first move and maybe this would be sufficient.

Any sort of advice helps. Anon off because they always love to talk about matriarchy or whatever and it‘s annoying. Anyways, yea. Please do let me know if I should do this. We’re pretty close friends so I know he wouldn’t find it weird if I sat next to him but uhh yeah.