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My guy friend who I've known for a few months has been baffling me. I'm not sure if he likes me.
This is a little long, I apologise. I shall summarise it in bullet points, please let me know of your opinions :)

1. He often says my name about, sometimes using my nickname and my last name in a sentence. For example, let's say my name is Katherine Aniston.
"Don't be stupid, Kat Aniston"
2. He maintains eye contact with me when having conversations, not intense.
3. He often says "Shut up Kat." in a joking manner, even when I'm not speaking sometimes and he will look at me with a smirk/smile on his face.
4. He once made a funny remark about me, and I gave him a long "death stare" during this he kept eye contact, and then winked, and maintained eye contact afterwards.
5. When I do something silly he will say "What have you done now Kat?" or "Oh my God! What have you done?"
6. He will often glance at me or in my general direction, sometimes even looking at me when I speak to someone else, (I can see from the corner of my eye).
7. Sometimes when I have a smile on my face, he will notice, and ask when I'm smiling about, no one else tends to ask as they do not notice.
8. Sometimes when I let out a small laugh, he will looks instantaneously in my direction, and then look away, this often happens a lot.
9. He ONCE, touched my face softly, not in a caressing fashion, but this was done on a night out with our group of friends, he also touched my upper back twice lightly.
10. He has a toy gun, at which at any given opportunity he likes to shoot me with it.
11. He had recently started mimicking what I said such as "where did I fork, that's what you sound like" in a joking manner
12. If he says anything that he believes has upset me when he meant it as a joke, he will apologise and make sure I know he was joking and didn't mean it.

He gives me more attention sober than drunk.. Not consistent behaviour?

There's a guy that I'm not sure if I'm into or not, and I can't tell if he's sending me signals he may be interested in me. We're in similar classes, and when groups of my friends and I are studying, he'll randomly offer to help me (even if I'm not doing work for that class/need any help), ask me to help, or ask me what we're covering in my class. Yesterday I went to a party, and he was there. We were all dressed up for Halloween, and when he walked up to talk to me, he quickly said something like "I probably asked you this already but what are you?" When I explained my costume, he said "I like it, you look good." He kept talking to me a bit, but then his friend called to him that he needed to come back to the game they were playing, and he left and touched my shoulder as he walked away. I was talking to one of my friends nearby a game of beer pong, and when the guy was playing, at the end he randomly called out to me and told me to take the last shot (even though I wasn't playing or drinking, and there were other people who would've been better). Just random interactions throughout the night seemed kind of different. At the end of the night when all of us were saying goodbye's, most of us in our group of friends hug each other bye, and he first awkwardly gave me a high five but then a few seconds later gave me a hug. He also made a joke about my costume, and when I asked what he meant, he quickly said something like "Oh I don't know never mind."

I feel like since I'm not even sure if I'm into him, my perspective isn't too skewed to where I'm reading all the little signs as positives, but I was just confused at some of his recent behavior, especially at the party.

So recently, I saw the guy that I'm crushing on. Well, he performed at a show, and of course I went to support him. He was so nervous and I made sure to tell him before he went that he had it and was going to do great, and he did. Afterwards, I went over and told him how good he did, and I gave him a quick hug and highfive. Well, it was so cute cause he did one of those 'highfive, lace fingers and hold your hand' deals for a minute. But he gave me two of the biggest hugs ever. Like, picked me up. And he just looked so happy and I was so happy for him. And after I got home, he messaged me and said I looked lovely and thanks for coming. My friend told me I should have given him a kiss on the cheek and I couldn't even do that. I chickened out. My friend from out of town said he likes me, but I don't know what to think. Would it be out of line to tell him I wanted to kiss him? Because just last night, he had a post on his tumblr, though I'm not sure who it was directed at, saying "think I missed an attempted kiss from a friend last night... blah"

I asked this a month ago:
In a camp, I met a guy who's my senior who took part in the planning of the camp (Let's just call this guy 'A'). His friends started shipping me and 'A' during the camp. 'A' is, to some extent, a friend. If I had a question, I would be fine with approaching him for help. It's easy for me to communicate with him. But everytime his friends are around, they tease him and me and he starts to laugh and smile. I joined a dance group for a competition, representing my specialized school against others (SoE vs FMS, both schools from the same polytechnic). He came to support, but I'm not sure if he came to support me, or to just cheer on our school (SoE). Thing is, very few people get to come along to support. (only 3-4 people from our course) He also starts conversations randomly before suddenly pretending I don't exist and playing with his friends. For example, earlier today, he wished me luck as I'm emceeing for an event later with one of his classmates. Last of all, my friend who claims to be very good at analyzing body language, says that everytime 'A' sees me, he tenses up; which apparently is a sign that he likes me? I don't know how to read all of this, and I'm afraid of overthinking and then reading into something that doesn't exist.
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A month later and I can safely say that I am friends with this guy. There's stuff I've shared with him that I don't share to most. Occasionally we meet on the way to school as we take the shuttle bus from the same interchange. A few days ago, we met in the shuttle bus and when he saw me, he had this really cute shy smile and then sat next to me. We were talking all the way to school even though he planned to sleep on the way to school. We don't talk a lot on text, even when I try to put effort into keeping the conversation going. This makes me a bit confused: if I was his crush, wouldn't he try to talk to me even on text? We both have a lot of common interests.