Does he like me? (10)

Okay so I'm in middle school and I kinda like this guy, we'll call him B. We've been friends since we were like, 3, and our parents are really good friends. Last year I had a crush on him, but my friend told him that I liked him. He said he didn't like me. Near the end of the year, we became friends again. A couple of months ago, I got a new crush and I really liked him. We'll call him L. Anyway, L had a "girlfriend" but it was a really big crush.
B likes another girl in our class (we'll call her C) and she likes him too. B and I are really good friends though. Anyway, B and I recently (like a few days ago) made up a joke between us. A couple of weeks ago, this kid in the grade below us asked him who he liked and he said me (not for real i don't think). So he told me this the other day and told me this kid, we'll call him T, was going to ask me if I liked B.
Complicated part. T sent L to ask me if I liked B. I told him yes and I don't know if L knows it's fake or not.
Anyway, so B and U were in the hallway and T was walking by. We were trying to make T think we liked each other, so B said, "Love ya bae."
For the last, say, week, we've been calling each other 'bae' in normal conversation. Like, I give him something, he says, "Thanks bae." Or I ask him a question like, "Hey bae, do you know..." This has been going on for about a week.
I think a bunch of girls in my class are jealous because they like him but I don't really care. He plays soccer and he's cute, a couple inches shorter than me with blonde hair and blue eyes. I mean, A LOT of girls like him.
The problem is, now that we're doing this, I realized I kinda like him again. I mean, this is one of the guys I've never lost feelings for.
I don't know if he just likes me as a friend or if he actually likes me.

PLEASE RESPOND I NEED HELP