Does he like me? Please answer.?

My best guy friend is madly in love with my best friends, and he plans on asking her to homecoming and everything. But yesterday, he started acting weird. He randomly wrote "April <3's [his name]" on my notes. When we came out of math cl, we were sarcastically bickering as we typically do. He always jokes about how "fat" I am because I'm really thin. He suddenly goes "well maybe you lost five pounds and I've started to like you." But I didn't really take it seriously. Then later on in the day I needed to borrow his phone, and when I took it he said, as if to make sure I knew before I saw it and made my own umptions, "There's a heart by your name." I was like "huh?" And then he randomly just grabbed me in this really tight hug. We have a history of people thinking we're dating, then when we say we're not and never will, they always say, "You will." A while ago he told me that he has deep feelings of love and affection for me but they "aren't ual or romantic," just in a friends way. I have deep feelings of affection for him but I don't know if they translate romantically. Anyway. People always think he likes me by the way he acts around me, like he always grabs my and punches me when he walks by, and just goes out of his way to be obnoxious to me. And in cl, he seems to use every excuse to put his hand in contact with mine. And when I look cute, he always tells me how cute I am. But all this time he's been claiming to be in love with my best friend (who doesn't like him back anyway). What should I think?