Why is he so shy around me? Do you think that he may like me?

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So I like this guy who is very confident. He has many female friends. He mostly gets along with the female gender and is very bubbly and friendly with them. However, with me, he seems to be very reserved and nervous.
Sometimes, he'll approach me and start a conversation or ask me a question when my back is turned, but when I turn to look at him in the eyes, he turns a bit red and looks down at the floor or at something else and he seems to have more of a hard time answering me. He becomes more quiet and his voice is deeper.
Sometimes, I start a conversation. When this happens, when he answers, he starts stuttering and becoming kind of shy and nervous. He looks down a lot.
He is not like this with other girls. With other girls, he could be super friendly and talk to them normally and joke with them.
Sometimes, I catch him staring at me and sometimes he looks me very deeply in the eyes. Other times, I catch him staring at me but he quickly turns away when he sees me looking back at him. I usually catch him staring at me from 6 to 10 times each time that I see him.
He's very protective of me. If he sees that someone is arguing with me or fighting with me, he gets really mad and raises his voice at them. He argues with them as if it is him who is having the fight.
His friends also tease him sometimes around me, a few told me that he likes me, they also nudge and push him around me sometimes...
He's very shy around me though, however he's very protective of me. If he sees that someone is arguing with me or fighting with me, he gets really mad and raises his voice at them. He argues with them as if it is him who is having the fight. He defends me.
His body language is very open around me, he moves his feet so that they're pointing at me. He stretches his legs out towards me. He never crosses his legs around me. If we're sitting next to each other, he turns his whole body to face me. He leans in when I talk.
Do you think that he likes me? Why is he so shy around me?
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Why is he so shy around me? Do you think that he may like me?
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