Search Results: no clue how he feels

Okay so, there was this guy in my class iv known for 3 years or so, I started to crush on him and a few months later he started to mirror me, wait to walk from the car park with me and generally chat more.
Then he started to message me and we would chat for a while and he would keep conversation going. He would open the messaging by asking some question about class then chat about other stuff for a while (sometimes a couple hours, sometimes throughout the whole day). If I said I had to go do something, say study, he would message later and ask how study went. We messaged about travel plans, career plans etc. And I realized we actually have loads more than I thought in common. In the messages he used a lot of emoticons too. In the messages he seemed genuinely interested in talking with me and i felt like we got to be good friends, but it did feel like there was a connection there too.

Anyway then i saw him in person and we didn't talk at all since we were going for an exam, after that it felt like things changed but he still messaged a bit but seemed a more distant?

Then he asked me to come out drinking with him and two of our other college friends so I went. And one of the girls said he messages her a lot too and he was basically like normal with me, nothing to suggest anything at all.

So basically now i am wonder if it was all in my head since i liked him. Or if he might be the type that keeps a few girls interested (though i really dont think he is the type to string anyone along). Or if i just didn't give him a clear idea that i liked him back, are boys really as dense with this stuff as people say they are?

I have no clue when it comes to guys so any help woudl be so appreciated!!!

I like this guy in my grade. It all used to be great, it even seemed like he felt the same way. A few months after he found out that I liked him, we stopped talking. Why? I have no clue. A few months later after we stopped talking, I was told that he likes another girl. She also liked him back, and when I found out that she liked him, he stopped looking at me so often. After finding out she was over him, he started looking at me very often

A couple of days ago, my friend told me that he said he doesn't like it when I wear the same clothes as him (we don't have the same clothes, I wore the same jumper as him once on a free dress day by accident cause it was wear your favourite sports team's colours and we wore the same jumper cause we go for the same team but the jumper I had on was a friend's) and I went off at him over messages cause I was upset. Then, I realised he didn't actually say that he didn't like it, he just made a joke about it with one of his friends so I said sorry and said it was a misunderstanding and his reply was "All good you can wear what you like. Have a good holiday"

Yesterday was the first time seeing him after all that, and I thought it'd be extremely awkward, but it wasn't. We kinda talked but there was a point where he was with my friend and this girl two grades below us and I heard the girl say my name and his name and I turned around and saw him doing the finger gun at his head thing. I think they were talking about me liking him? Anyway, throughout the night, it seemed like he was trying to be next to me. He walked over to his friend and I and his friend left and called him over after he left but he didn't go to his friend, he just stayed next to me. And other times I'd just be standing somewhere and he'd walk over and stand near/next to me. He also looks at me A LOOOOOT! But I'm pretty sure he still likes the other girl. Does he like me as well or what?