u/Legal_Luck_6410

So, the story is a bit long, but I'll try to summarize.
I'm 17 years old and I've liked him since I was 15. Last October I told him my feelings, intending to open up and try to get over it since my friends always said he didn't like me and that we weren't compatible. And he really did say he didn't see me as anything more than a good friend, but nothing changed between us.
In January of this year, he said he liked me, and we talked for a week, but everything was very confusing in my head because he was talking to a girl in December and at the beginning of the following month he liked me, anyway, everything was also happening very fast and I was having some problems at home, there were other things bothering me and I said that at the moment I just wanted to be friends with him.
Anyway, throughout this year, we had some moments and it's clear that there's tension between us, he kept sending me hints about being a couple and then we started talking again.
I'm a very shy girl and I've never talked to or liked other boys, only him. So I have a lot of difficulty starting conversations with him because I feel like I'm getting in the way, and also showing what I feel, but I always try my best. However, he doesn't seem to care much about responding to me or talking to me during class.
He said he loves me and we've been talking for a week. It was very difficult for me to say the same, which was very fast. I felt like Rory Gilmore (I'm so mad at myself). He told me that he's never felt this connection that he feels with me.
He's been with several girls and has more female friends than male friends, and I feel kind of insecure about that because I like him, but our conversations don't flow so naturally. I don't know if this is normal at the beginning, but it seems like he doesn't really like me, but rather the idea of ​​me.
The day before yesterday I misread one of his messages and replied completely out of context, and instead of correcting him, he just sent a sticker with this emoji 😐.
I forgot to mention that last week the girl from December replied to one of his stories saying "I want to eat you." He didn't say that to me, I heard him saying it to my classmate.