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So I really like this guy, and he found out I liked him at the start of the year in around Febraury and so did basically all his other school friends. He used to speak to me quite a bit till my friends and I annoyed him too much and then we stopped talking. Like a month after, he started talking to me again but now, we don't talk anymore. I messaged him a while ago and he told me not to message him AND also asked me why I was messaging him. One of his best mates texted me a message off my crushes facebook saying "Hey x" and my crush told me it wasn't him and then the day after, that same friend of his told me that it was him who sent the message and that my crush doesn't really want to talk to me and if I keep on messaging him, it's gonna make him hate me. Then one of my guy friends who's are friends with my crush told me he talks a lot of shit about me (which I don't know is true) BUT my crush stares at me A LOT and if everyone knew my crush really DOESN'T like me, they wouldn't be teasing him and I like they do now. Especially cause they tease me IN FRONT of him? So are they hiding something from me? He doesn't talk to me that much unless he's with a friend, but like I said before, he stares at me a lot like when I'm kicking soccer balls with my friends. Lately he's started being around and talking to more girls in his class so is he trying to make me jealous? Also, when I approach him and his friends, he'll go silent all of a sudden. Is that cause he's shy or scared of his friends teasing him for liking me? I'm younger than him, so that might be why he's hiding the fact that he likes me. What should I do? Confront him? Flirt with other guys to see what he does? Thanks for your help.