friendship or more?!?!

ok so.. let me give some background information. I met this guy at an extracurricular programme and found out we go to the same school without even knowing, and that we were even in the same study session (ik that sounds weird but we had just joined a new school where theres like 1000 students and the study session also has like 100 ppl alone). anyways we saw each other a few times around the school and ended up swapping socials and finding out we have a lot in common so we kinda formed a friendship from that. now heres the reasons I'm confused:
After one of the study sessions we left together and went to the cafeteria to get lunch. it was just us two and we ended up talking for the whole hour (no awkwardness or anything) and by the time I had to go to my next lesson it turned out he was finished for the day and was actually planning on leaving before lunch. after i asked why he didnt wanna go home he just said it was because we started talking.
after this we had some conversations over instagram dms, normally late at night after school. but ngl i thought we were just friends.
then he started reposting videos about his talking stage giving mixed signals, and idk if those were about me or not but i digress.
now we had mock week, and we take similar subjects so we were talking alot over this period, but by the end he apologised to me for leaving me on delivered alot bc he was stressed about mocks, which seemed weird to me because thats not normally something you do with friends. since then he has replied to all my messages pretty much instantly, but we havent been speaking much.
Last week after this session he approached me at the end of a study session so we ended up having another conversation, but our school is so busy that he just vanished and we havent spoken since.
Another thing is we always make eye contact when we see each other around but he seems kind of shy.
i know this seems super insignificant but I do kinda wanna know lol
Any thoughts are appreciated whether theyre good or bad lmaooo

ok so quick update - we haven't really spoken at all since my last post on here. he likes my instagram stories but that is literally it, he swiped up to one and left me on seen after i replied so its pretty clear hes not interested lmaooo
its lowkey just annoying how he keeps circling back every couple weeks like every time i try cut him off it backfires :/
advice is appreciated gang 🤞

ok so quick update - we haven't really spoken at all since my last post on here. he likes my instagram stories but that is literally it, he swiped up to one and left me on seen after i replied so its pretty clear hes not interested lmaooo
its lowkey just annoying how he keeps circling back every couple weeks like every time i try cut him off it backfires :/
advice is appreciated gang 🤞

aw damnnnn unlucky
i hope things change for u soon

its just super weird lol because he replies after like 24 hours but tries to keep the convo going (?!) got me confused. but whenever i see him around its just awkward eye contact and we dont speak so ima try initiating no contact