How do I know what he really feels!?

Okay ironicly the guy I talked about in my last question about what you would do if the guy you liked came up to you and kissed you on the cheek, that was all just play. But the other day he came up to me hugged me and either said I know baby or I love you baby I couldnt understand which, and then just walked away! Me and shey when to the bathroom and I was giggleing like crazy but I still don’t know how he found out! But mackenzie came in and said she went up to talk to him to ask him what all that was about he wasn’t there and this chick said it didn’t mean anything it was just a dare! But my friends think that if he really didn’t like me he wouldn’t have done it in the first place. Now when we are waiting to go to play practice me and my friends, and his friends and him all go to sundeas (restraunt). Almost every day when I’m sitting with shy they come over and sit by us, like at the same table. We talk and everything we all talk about the same stuff. The other day my semi-friend went up to him and asked him if he liked me, he said no and his friend was like, yes you do you were wishing she was with you in bed just last night! Of course he was joking so he pushed him and said, shut up liar!. But I always catch him looking at me and gah I’m so confused! Okay and for the most recent update, we had a school dance, he went but he mostly just sat in the bleechers with his friends, but the last slow song of the night he danced with this girl. She danced with like three other guys that night and everyone said he probly was just dancing with her as a friend. What do you think?! Do you think he likes me or what?! I need help so bad thanks