Why is he playing games with my mind?

Okay so I am very confused and I would like a guys view on this. Okay so I met this guy last week through my friend. Wednesday to be precise. He was flirting with me but also kind of flirting with my friend. The next day I went to his house with my friend. We did karaoke and danced while drinking some wine…we weren’t even buzzed but my friend was. We danced and he put his arm around me and everything. I left the room and he told my friend he liked me. My friend left the room and he kissed me. We ended up having a long talk about relationships and we were on the same page. He also said he was unsure about the fact that I have a daughter but then he changed his mind about it. We made out the rest of the night. The next day he called me and said he wasn’t sure about last night and he wanted to hangout as friends for now. The day after that we hung out. He brought me into his computer room and he said he didn’t want to say yes or no he just wanted to hangout. We watched Diary of a Mad Black Women and it started a long conversation. He said there was a spark there a couple nights ago but he wasn’t feeling it then. He was saying that love is a battlefield and he didn’t want to hurt me he wanted to make sure that if I focused on myself and I don’t dwell on relationships and guys. He also said something about whether I end up with him or someone else. There was a lot more to it but I don’t remember all of it.He was cuddling me the entire time he said this. I asked him if he liked me that way like boyfriend girlfriend and he was like uhhh ummm ehhh nah and then 30 seconds later he kissed me and was like um yeah that wasn’t supposed to happen. Then he continued but he said he wanted to take things slow. He brought me home and he’s been walking me to the door since the first time I should add in. He gave me a kiss goodnight which he wouldn’t have done if he had changed his mind. The next day we went bowling. He was hugging me most of the time. I was gonna kiss him on the cheek but he said he didn’t want to kiss me or anything. I said so you don’t like me like that. He said its not that I don’t like you its that I just wanna be friends. When we were talking the first day we had both said that he thought it was best to take things slow and treat the relationship as if it could be it that way everything was memorable. Anyways so We hung out last night and he hugged me a couple times but that was really it. He did check me out though a couple times. And he has this way of looking into my eyes like it means something. He said I was the closest person to him right now.We hung out once again and he kissed me and it started to go further but we stopped and he admitted to liking me again. He said he is not sure what he wants. He said there are a couple other girls he likes. One of those girls was over his house before that and I was there and he was barely noticing her like he was me. I am always the first one he calls abut anything. I am very confused at this point on whether he will ask me out or not and how I go about convincing him that he should give it a shot.What do you men think about this?