Please help me! i dont know what to do!!! best answer gets 10 points.?

ok so this is going to be long. but i would really appriciate it if you read it and hepled me out.ok so theres this guy named joey. we were such good friends. i mean REALLY good friends. we talked A LOT, he gave me his cell phone number FIRST, i went to his out (only outside) and talked for a long time, we text, we slow danced, we always waved, and he always bugged me, ect. and all my friends are like omg ashley he likes u!! OMG OMG im like u guys i dont care he is a year older..so i dont know if he likes me. well joeys not really a "popular" guy in his cl he dont got much friends, im not saying thats bad. and so one day i was with my friends and i DID want to go out wiht him and hes like umm i dont really want a gf , i dont think im ready, i totaly undersood that. so we didnt even look at eachother for about 5 months. but we texted ALL THE TIME. and when we text we text for hours, and i can tell that he enjoys it and i enjoy it. well anyways..he was "working" and his friend took his phone and texted me and is like hey so who do u like? and im like idk and hes like is it me? and im like idk and hes like well i like u and im like ooo kool and then hes like so will u go out with me and im like r u kidding or r u serious? and then joeys like o srry that was mike, and i got SO mad and im like well tell mike hes stupid, and im like y did mike have ur phone, and joeys like i was in the bathroom...and then i though u were in teh bathroom for 3 hours??!?!!?!(we were talkin for about 3 hours) well my friends think( and so do i) that he was there there whole time he was texing me. but we text like everyother day and stuff and he "bumps" me in the hall and stuff but i dont look at him because its awkward, and if i smile i DONT want to make a fool of myself. so what you've heard do u think he likes me?? and do you have any tips? cause i have NO idea what to do. P.S. im in 8th grade and he's in 9th grade but it mostly started last year