Is this cancer guy interested??

I'm a pisces female head over heels for this cancer guy. There's not a thing I dislike about him! It all started at the beginning of October when we were kind of friends but didn't really know each other. I've known I liked him since September (a love at first sight encounter, if you believe it) I decided to make my move bc I knew cancer guys usually don't. Best thing I've honestly done. So it was a Monday, a very dreadful one for me.. I went up to him in my schools' band room (we're both in band) and said I was sad, half expecting him not to care or hear me but he turns towards me and asks why? I explain, with teary eyes that my mom's breast cancer came back. He just has the saddest look on his face and gives me a great hug. This made me tear up even more bc the guy I like was HUGGING me. Then I explain how bad it is and he says no don't cry, it'll make me cry seeing how sad you are, then he hugs me again. I say how worried I am of how bad it CAN possibly get and he asks for a real hug- this time was different. I actually wrapped my arms around him this time because I was too nervous before, so he squeezes tighter and says everything will be ok. When he said that, his whole body rumbled in sadness. I just about cried because I've never FELT that much emotion before. The week goes on and (I'm not sure if it's out of pity or he likes me but..) I told him as I was passing him in the hallway before band that I needed to talk to him and he sounded worried then later after practice I was fighting with my friend over unimportant things and he hated seeing me all worked up so he gently stopped me and I licked my lips unknowingly cuz they were dry and I was nervous so yeah. Then he said he knows something bad is up cuz I licked my lips and the way I looked then he said he knew cuz he's so intuitive, then he asked what was really wrong and what I wanted to talk about earlier but percussion goes through different doors than woodwinds so I said I'd talk to him in the band room. I told him about more family issues (a divorce) but no hug. (He related with his family though) at that Friday football game, he made several attempts to talk to me which was so cute! So Saturday came and was honestly the best day of my life. We were both at a friends bday party at a haunted house and corn maze. The whole time in line we flirted, long story short we hugged two or three times, then I was actually scared when I saw a guy sneak in the back and scooted closer to him. He puts his a

He puts his arm around me and rubs my back and says it'll be okay (oh the memories make me smile!) so to wrap it up, he has his arm around me most of the time, in narrow spaces both hands go on my waist, him caressing my sides too🙂 so then I realize I'm just huddling with myself while his arm is around me so I put mine around him and he pulls me closer. (Best part ever right here!!) I gently lay my head on his shoulder as we walk and he lays his head on my head! Once we're all ready to do the corn maze after that enchanting experience, I'm just standing waiting for the others, and he comes up and puts his folded arms on my shoulders and rests his chin on my head, smiling at the guy next to us because THAT guy smiled. It was all just too cute. So Monday comes and things fall apart. Usually in the morning I talk to him with his friends (m/f) and he avoided me. Same thing the next day. Then Wednesday long story short he says we'd be better as friends.. He said it sweetly (as one could possibly shatter a world) but I still had trouble accepting reality and was just.. No big deal..? Right? I cried that night. With everything else going on in my family, and then that? I lost it. The next day I didn't talk to him or to his friends. Oh how I missed him though.. So the next day I DID talk to him. And more and more with the weeks. He finally got his iPod back and could text. I've texted him (always first) but he always does respond. So I invite him and a few of those friends I talk to in the morning to a bonfire. Turned out he couldn't go and it was just awkward. I texted him after, half expecting no reply bc I'm a clingy fish lol. But he did and I said it wasn't the same without you! After talking about what happened and stuff, it got into a deep conversation. Idk how but it starts off as this girl talked behind your back at my bonfire and I glared at her, blah blah, he appreciated that, we ranted about her, then something about sleep and then how he can't cuz stress, I ask why, he explains (I won't say cuz it's personal). Then he talks about how he sneaks off to his friends house (a girl which made me.. A bit mad..) while his parents are asleep (none of his family knows but I do.. I felt humbled actually) but he talks about how he goes to parties and stuff (I thought cancerians were anti-partiers?) but yeah..that's where I got confused. So I didn't want to end the conversation there so I mentioned how I was happy I got 50 likes on an Instagram drawing and how's i

Instagram drawing and how's it's basically the best thing that's happened with everything else going on recently. He asks what's wrong and says he'll tell me what's bothering him if I say (little did he know, I was gonna tell him regardless) so I spill, he sympathized, he spilled and I felt like my problems were nothing compared to what he's been through.. That's how deep it got. Yet another bad thing happened recently (shocker right?) I told him about how my old neighbor with cancer has to put her old dog down soon. Of course he felt bad. But later in the conversation I just said haha as one of those I don't know what to talk about anymore words, but then for the first time, he initiates the conversation! A few days pass and comes to yesterday actually. I wanted to talk and sent a funny pic and he sent one word answers. He usually doesn't or just elaborates, but it was as if he was mad, idk. I asked if he was alright, said he was fine, and that was that. Crabs are SO CONFUSING. please help, is he interested?? Sorry it was so long!

To wrap it up but the story is getting longer and longer. Regardless, it's a cute story...there's more yea?

just be his friend first let it flow.

So you guys are bonding over doom n gloom? Interesting.

Oh I'm just seeing the rest,internet..sigh..He's just being nice but you never know. You can ask what he likes and about the kind of girl he could fall for, you'd get a general idea.

Honestly, it doesn't sound like he likes you, just thinks of you as a friend.

This is just the beginning.. .