Does this Pisces guy like me?

Hi, I'm a Taurus woman with a Sag moon and Leo rising. And my love interest is a Pisces sun and Taurus moon.

I really don't know if he likes me, so maybe you guys can help me out?

He always defends me when someone's being mean to me or if he thinks that I'm hurt, because I'm pretty shy and don't talk a lot in class. But he also gets mad at me sometimes and tries to tell me what's right and what's not. Sometimes I feel like he thinks he's the boss of me.

I really like him and stare at him often but he never stares back at me. Except this one time when I was on the other side of the classroom and he thought I wasn't watching. He was laying back and watching me while he smiled. I think he was daydreaming. And after he did that, he told his friends that he thought I was cute.

I did that once to him too but i thought he wasn't watching but he did and he got kinda mad and said: "What are you looking at?!" But after that he was just acting all normal. Maybe he was just kidding idk.

He also told me he loved me twice but that was after I shared some candy with him lol.

Sometimes when I joke around and say that I don't know him for fun, he seems to get hurt a little until he realizes it was a joke. And I'm not really sure, but I think that he avoids me sometimes because once he needed a sheet of paper and he asked everyone except me, so he asked his friend to ask me for a sheet of paper for him. And when we do school projects we had to change of partner and the teacher put me and him together and when he heard that he kinda stressed out and told his friend to replace him because he doesn't wanna work with me. He thought i didn't hear it, but I did.

Sometimes he also acts really silly around me and says meaningless things or we "play fight."

This guy really confuses me and i dont know what to do. Do you think he only defends me because I'm pretty shy? Or does he have true feelings for me? Or are we just friends?

Do you know his venus by any chance?

All the Pisces men I know closely had a Venus in Aries

If he has Venus in Aries I would say no he is not interested but anything else then I don't know.

That whole avoiding you is not something a Pisces (w/ Venus in Aries of course) would do if they were interested. That buddy group switch thing is a very bad sign going off my very long history with them.