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Is he scared of the age difference?

First of all, I don't even know if this guy likes me, but I always get the feeling he does. Pretty much since I first met him I just felt something.. Also when we first met he was telling me I looked really familiar and I'm like hm.. I don't think you look familiar? Then he was asking me some questions about myself, we found out we live in the same town and such..

Roughly a month ago my friends and I all went out downtown to a bar and he showed up there. We told him we'd be going and invited him, but he played it off like he wouldn't be there, plus he had to take off work to go. So long story short, he was talking to me for about two hours.. like half the time we were there. I don't even remember what we were talking about lol just life I guess.. he was drunk for sure, but still knew what was going on. He told me something like, "I know we don't talk too often (we don't see each other that often, maybe a few times a week?), but I really enjoy talking to you a lot more than [other friends of mine..]"

I was standing with him watching some girls getting up to dance on the bar, and then he tries to convince me to go up there and is pushing me but I told him I'm not doing it, so then he stopped. Then he tells me how much he respects me.. and then he tilts his head at me and says "I like you.. I really like you.." I'm like oh? I'm pretty sure I just nodded in agreement to this (stupid move..) since I wasn't sure what he meant by it.. like friends? Something more?

So nothing really significant happened between us that night other than him telling me he likes me.. yeah we touched a bit I guess but not too much because of some of our friends being around, and they would be like um what?! And at one point he asked me how old I was. He was like, "are you 19?" and I told him 18.. so it seemed like he was expecting me to be older.. I turn 19 soon, and he's 27. We have like an 8.5 year age difference. I know it's quite the gap, but we have a lot in common and I really like him.. :/

So if he does like me, I don't think he wants to put any moves on me if our friends are around, and he probably thinks that I wouldn't like him because of our age difference. And I also don't think I've really given him any clear signs I like him.. so confused. And I don't really know what to do next. I feel like I should wait and confess my feelings later, but I also don't want to lose my chance with him.
Is he scared of the age difference?
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