Why does he avoid touching me and won't look me in the eyes?

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there's a guy in my class who I thought liked me because I had caught him staring at me (but he'd quickly look away each time), his friend nudging him when I walked in the room and he's smiled at me.
Now he's stopped staring at me cold turkey but his friends still stare at me. I tried being friendly to him and his friend once but he ignored the whole conversation and just weirdly laughed quite hard when I complimented his friend.
And when I asked to borrow his pen, he gave it to me without looking at me and when I held it to him to return it, he stared at my hand for a while before trying to take it out of mine without touching me.

I don't know why he's acting that way but he makes me feel like i'm a parasite. Is this his way of saying he's not interested?
Why does he avoid touching me and won't look me in the eyes?
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