Help me out!!!
I'm [19F]. There's a boy [19M] in my school.. He is in my friend group..and the group simply formed because one of my friends had a crush on him so my other friend (male) went up to him and asked for his instagram ID as an excuse for her asking for notes and that she was too shy to come up to him and ask for his ID personally. Anyways, she eventually got over him. We also have a gc of all of us and we all actively used to chat on that gc in the initial stages..mind y'all I still hadn't developed a crush on him. But after 3 months..I gradually started feeling something for him since I had to see him everyday at school..and I noticed that he now started randomly calling me by my nickname loudly in the hallway that everyone had kept for each other in the gc. I loved that feeling. But after a week or so we randomly started ignoring each other..even though I didn't understand why he was doing that..and I was too scared to make the first move. Fast forward to the day before yesterday...I went for a hangout with my best friend[19M] and posted a story on insta of the scenery..he replied to the story asking where the location was..and the conversation went on. I even told him how I literally almost met with an accident on the way there and he said things like "you should drive carefully 🥺🫶🏻" "dont do this from now on" etc etc...and it was 12 at midnight..and we talked for about 30-45 mins continuously. Then on, after that day..him and I entered the school at the same time and he was already upstairs..I followed him upstairs to my class floor. I was punching my attendance card there and he had already punched his card. When I reached the floor, he greeted me by calling that nickname again which he had stopped for a while. And then chatted a little about why I was so late and then we went to our classrooms. Also during that "ignoring each other" period..he used to ghost me on dms ...like replying after 7-8 hours or even 12-13 hours. But now he replies in almost 3-4 hours.
What do I understand by this? Is it only a one sided crush type shi or do I take that as a signal that he's interested too. I've never been so desperate in my entire life over a tiny crush. Help me😭🙏🏼