Does this dude like me? Only guys preferable?

Theres this kid in my school hes very short and I love him a lot I asked him out in a dance he said I don't want to hurt you're feelings and the music blared loud so I could not hear the rest.Then five months later my friend asked him out for me he said maybe but I never told my friend to ask him out.two months later which is now he looks at me a lot from far away and sometimes he smiles at me.Then he stopped doing that.and he told his brother that I liked my friend which I hang out with a lot and his brother told my brother and he told me.Later that day I got a call from the dude I like let's call him Damien well Damien called me but then he hung up right after i said hello plus i never gave him my number and that whole day he tried getting close to me during recess he knows I love him but he never talks to me and people at my school consider him weird.but idc anyways yesterday I was sitting in a bench with one of my friends and he came with one of his friends and sat next to me he didn't talk to me but I he was looking at me and when I faced him he quickly looked somewhere else.Today I had to announce something to a cl and everyone was being loud and then he said shut up people to everyone so that I could give them the announcement.When I talk to him with my friends he dosent pay attention but when I talk to him alone he does.One of my friends told him again that I like him and he seemed incredibly happy.I also sent him candies on Christmas and he kept staring at me the whole day but did not say thank you or anything.I am soo confused does he like me or not I also heard he never has had a girlfriend.I am a girl in middle school.