So I have a crush on my best friend of a few months (non-binary, 13), and I have no idea if they feel the same way about me. For a bit of context, a few days ago one of our mutual best friends had a party with us and some other mutual friends of ours, and we ended up playing spin the bottle. By the end of the game everyone had kissed everyone else, and people were also just kissing each other for fun, I guess. But as the night went on, my friend was very touchy with me specifically, and I reciprocated it.We were really close and I was in their lap/they were leaning on me pretty much all night. They were really possessive/protective of me too. We ended up kissing a lot over the night, and cuddled and slept together. (not in a sexual way lol) Then the next morning we played truth-or-dare and they made a ton of comments and stuff about doing the more sexual dares with me (all consensual, you could pass on anything you weren’t comfortable with) and other people started commenting on it too, as well. (they ended up giving me a hickey as part of a dare, and a lot of kissing and stuff, but nothing too bad) Except they rarely initiated kissing me, but did seem to really enjoy it, and got flustered and really happy when I played along with some of the dares. And then today in the locker room they were making jokes about how the hickey was getting color, and I said it didn’t really hurt much, so they said they’d bite harder next time. We kissed a few more times over the day. They’ve also made jokes about us dating before too. But then this afternoon I checked to make sure they were still comfortable with everything, and they said they didn’t really care if I kissed them or not. I played it off as normal, but now I’m very confused because before it seemed like they probably liked me, but now I’m not sure it wasn’t just a joke/platonic, and I don’t want to risk ruining my friendship with them/our mutual friends by asking until I know for almost certain that they do actually like me.
I thought it would be a good idea to get an outside opinion to get some advice about the situation.
Thanks for reading, sorry it’s so long.