i'm crushing on an aries but does he like me back?

he came to know that i have a crush on him ..we chatted a few times (i used to start the convo; he only started it once after i told his friend that he wasn't initiating the chat 😄) ..in school he looks at me ..his friends tease him when i'm around ..he smiled at me once (that's because i'm so shy i hardly look at him directly)..then we had holidays so i didn't have any interaction and i thought of moving on ..now since school started again, his friends still tease him and he did turn around ..we don't chat with each other now because none of us will start but he's almost always online ..before him knowing that i have a crush on him he was hardly ever online !
Also, he doesn't seem to be the casanova that most aries are known for being ..his friend asked him whether he likes me and he said he was interested but he didn't want to jump in ..i'm so confused ..i get so nervous when he comes around and i've never spoken to him in person (oh dear!)..what do i make of this ?! is he interested or what ?! this doesn't seem to be going any further ..and i'm not the one to take the lead ..jeez, i don't even think he's the typical aries !!
Him- Star sign: aries; Moon: aries; Venus: taurus
Me- Star sign: taurus; Moon: pisces; Venus: aries

oops! correction! HIS MOON IS IN TAURUS not aries !!

Well for starters you aren't supposed to take the lead with an Aries male. He's the pursuer. He likes the challenge of winning you over, if you steal it from him then your no fun. He's pursuing you in his own way. Most likely he pays more attention to you then you realize, so he knows exactly when and how to approach you. My aries was not very direct at first, and he even admitted that he was very shy around me and he said no girl has ever made him as nervous as I do but it only made him like me more. I'm a flirty libra. All I need to know is the guy likes me and I will flirt my butt off, in my own way of course it really depends on the guy that will determine how I flirt. In my Aries case I could tell he was shy, so to get him to talk to me I made him laugh. I would constantly tease him and pick with him in a silly way to get him to open up. The more I made him laugh the more he started to joke back and want to be around me. I never did anything direct though, I left all that up to him. I also made it known that I had a life, with priorities. He loved that I was smart, independent, and always on the go and for once HE was the one that had to try to keep up. Lol. Hope this helps.