Does this amazing guy like me?

ok, here's a long story.i've been in love with this amazing, beautiful, crazily too perfect boy.(this is how I see him, not so sure about other people).for about the past 2 years.i've tried to stop likeing him, but it's not happening, at all. last year, he told me he liked me, but liked another girl more. he went out with her and got his heart broke, shattered.i hate that girl and wish i could tell her how awful and stupid she is, also how much she lost.and if only i could tell him he should have picked me, maybe that's what he is thinking? now, the next year of school (after a long summer together with friends at our country club)he flirts with me, stares at me, and holds my eye contact a lot. plus, he makes me laugh and is very protective over me(in a definite boyfriend type way, caring if i'm crying or sad and willing to go oiut of his way to "handle" whoever made me cry or hurt me.Does he like me?