I'm terrible at relationships and need advice

Hello everyone. I hadn't been online for a while and a lot has changed, some to better some to worse. I still hadn’t came out to my parents directly (they are so religious and I never was on good terms with them) however a lot of people know about my sexuality.

I seek help and advice on a situation with my friend, who i think might have feelings for me. I will try to give you as much information as possible but also try not to write a wall of text. Ok so there is this classmate of mine who at first didn’t really accept that i was gay, however i promised him that i would never-ever try anything on him because i think of him as friend. I'm no longer sure if he thinks that way too (i might just be fooling myself as i tend to do). For starters, on a 7 days field trip to Spain with whole school, he asked me if i wanted to hang out one night with him (somewhere where no one else is but not in his room). However that never happened because the first night that he got rather drunk he said some hurtful things about gays specifically (I really don't want to go in depth with it), however when the school year started he asked me what exactly did he say and apologized. Well, probably the most important thing he said there is that he believes in nature (Male and female should be together everything else is unnatural).

For now it doesn’t sound as if he is interested but things began changing when the school started. On the first day he asked me to sit with him during each subject (which we do) . He talks to me a lot and touches my things from pencil case (what did you think.. ). I noticed that sometimes he keeps his legs close to mine until i move it away. Before deciding to go on a field trip he asked me if i was going and only raised hand once he knew i would go. Recently he's been trying to go for a beer with me, however we both have a busy schedule so it’s hard to find a good day.

Well, a lot is happening between me and him but i really can't tell what and how should i react. Till now he hasn't had a girlfriend and I find it odd that he would be attracted to me and yet i feel so warm and happy next o him. I think that he might have feelings for me but can’t accept them. I don't want to force him to anything but I’m not sure how to move. I really would like to be with him though since he is everything I ever wanted.