My First Crush- Should I Keep It A Secret!?!?!?!?

Okay yes I know, it’s only my first crush. I have thought other boys were cute, funny e.t.c but this is the first time I have a fully flegged CRUSH. I am in year 7, and have a close group of nine friends who I met at the start of the year. Now, I suddenly realised I like this one boy in my class. At first I didn’t really understand my weird feelings, but a couple of my friends were saying things like oh, so do you like anyone (they just happened to be quite close with his best friend btw) I said no, and asked them back, and they ended up talkng about how I would obviously be the first they would tell and how much they trust me and everything. I felt really guilty and it just pured out of me that obviously tey were the same for me. I felt GUILTYYY. Now I realise I really like this boy, and I would love to talk about it with someone, but now I can’t tell my friends about it because they will hate me for promising them I liked nobody!

The other problem with this is, I knew two of the girls from primary school, but the rest I’ve just met. I love them to bits and everything but they are really close to eachother and I’m sure when I start talking to one of them more than all the rest and investigation will start. Also I was never the type to like boys (as you can possibly tell) and earlier I really enphisised the fact that I like no-one and probably won’t for ages. A lot of my firends are close with his friends as I said and I don’t want to risk it… Help!!?!?!? Should I tell a friend? What if one of them likes this person too, then my crush is CRUSHED, because I would never let it come between our friendship! HELP ME! (BTW not comfortable with discussing stuff like this with family or anything so if I want some advice/ a shoulder to cry on/ someone to talk to, I think they are my only hope!)