He doesn’t even acknowledge my existence?

Anonymous
There’s a guy in one of my college classes. He speaks his opinion. I admire it a lot and he’s very outspoken about certain injustice issues.
We sit in a giant circle in class and he sits kind of like diagonal from me. His feet always face me and the professor sits next to him so he’s kinda facing towards him too. every time he raises his hand and starts speaking he’ll start talking with his hands and glance at the professor and then make dead eye contact with me while talking. Some times for seconds at a time and I have to look away. The eye contact is so strong though it’s hard not to smile when he’s looking at me while talking. I have seen him scan the room while talking and look at the circle but he constantly makes eye contact with me while talking which obviously means he doesn’t find me hard to look at lol. I was kinda playing around with another guy in the class because we were working in partners and the teacher asked us what we were doing and the guy just said we were just figuring something out and I saw the guy I’m interested in look over at us and stare at me.
I’ve been told pretty lol which I know doesn’t automatically make him interested.
I decided to speak out on some injustice topics and we kind of had a discussion going on and he agreed with me and added on to what I was saying with some issues that happened to his friend. He kept glancing at the professor and back at me again but was beet red while he was talking but still spoke to me with no problem.
We also had a conversation about a movie and a short story we read and he explained it to me. After class I saw him go near the professor and he said loudly to him that this was one of his favorite classes and he just wanted to say it. One problem. He never talks to me before or after class! He only looks at me during class when he’s speaking.
I’m cute and smart lol why won’t he take initiative?
He doesn’t even acknowledge my existence?
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