i’ve never been in a situation like this so i need some help 😭

hey y’all! this is probably a much straight forward answer than i’m thinking but this is the deal:

List of people involved so it doesn’t get too confusing (names have been changed obviously):

• me
• emily (close friend of mine)
• shawn (guy i like)
• leigh (shawn’s best friend)

so basically for the last couple weeks of august/first couple weeks of september, shawn and i were talking A LOT but all of a sudden he kinda stopped. he stared at me A LOT in class, he friends stare at me a lot, etc even after he stopped talking to me as much. turns out he was indeed into me (not sure if he still is interested in me even a little bit bc the staring has gotten much worse) but now he’s into emily, but emily is NOT into him whatsoever. she’s actually into leigh and leigh is into her but leigh won’t do anything with emily because she doesn’t wanna betray shawn. so long story short it’s a mess lol. i’m assuming shawn knows i like him at this point but im also not gonna tell him and look like an idiot. shawn legit went from liking my instagram stories and swiping up on them, liking my posts, etc. to basically radio silence and ignoring me in person but again the staring got worse. i even overheard him say my name while talking to his friend but i wasn’t able to hear what he said about me. my thing is if he’s interested in my friend and isn’t interested in me anymore, then why is he staring and talking about me??? idk ive just never been in a situation like this lol.

i am still into him, but also if i make a move now or even after he gets over my friend (she told me he rejected him and that “he’ll move on soon”) do i really want to (possibly) be the one he settles for just because he couldn’t get what he wanted?? idk this is giving like bad hbo teen drama lmao