Before I start, I'm only fourteen, and have no intentions of actually 'dating'. However, I still would want to know if the boy I like does like me, as I know the over-thinking and doubting has been killing me.

Okay, I have a difficult situation that I have been dealing with for over a year. Before you wonder why it's been so long- the guy I like is a year older than me. Last school year ( that just ended) he was a freshman, so we were in two different schools.

In seventh grade, my friend asked him how he felt about me. He said, "I don't know." Later, she told him I liked him. Once, before she had told him I liked him, he had picked something up for me and given me advice. Another time, I slammed down my backpack as if I were angry, and he asked, "You okay?"

After she told him, he:
-Smiled at me and said 'hi' to me when I was near him.
-Sat next to me alone during a movie near the end of the school year, although he moved to the front when our teacher changed the movie.

In my eighth grade year there was an event at out church that occurs every year. We were both there.
What I saw:
-I saw him staring directly at me three times, but when I was around friends- and one time it was because I was hula-hooping and eating off a plate at the same time. (So that could have been just out of interest.) The other two times, he was smiling.
-I scanned behind me to look for him among everyone else in the pews, and when I found him, he seemed to be looking in my direction.
That was all I saw. It gave me a bit of hope, but not much. However, two of my friends claimed to have seen him staring at me. One of my friends told me what she saw.
-Several times she had seen him staring at me. She claimed that he would stare for twenty seconds (I had my doubts there) and was always smiling.
-She said that if I looked his general direction, he would look away.
-She's convinced that his friends were laughing at him for staring.

It was extremely hard on me, not seeing him my whole eighth grade year. Starting late July, we'll be in marching band together. My friend really thinks he likes me, but I have a lot of doubt.

I don't consider myself 'pretty', but possibly decent. I am also very small for my age. I'm still a couple inches shy of five foot. He is extremely tall for his age- probably past six foot. I'm not sure whether that could affect anything, but maybe being on the short side is not in my favor. I am also considered 'shy'. I rarely talk to anyone but my friends, which I know is not in m favor.

I've wondered whether he likes me for a year. I can't seem to convince myself due to insecurities and the amount of proof. Is there a good chance that he likes me?