<human>: Can you succinctly summarize the text in 1-3 sentences?

I'm a female 21 years old and never really been in a relationship with a man due to my religious beliefs. I never really had male friends until recently when I turned 20 at collage. 

I think I might have feelings for my first male friend. I have many male friends now and most of my friends are males (they are attractive and I had physical attraction to one or two of them nothing more).

I was immediately attracted to my first male friend when I met him, but never really thought of it because it didn't matter to me. Even thought, I am attracted to him, there are things that put me off and confused me even more. 

Once I got to know him and connect with him, I started to get theses weird feelings for him. I have always struggled with sharing and I have struggled with trust issues. With him all I can think about is sharing my feelings with him and talking to him about my life even silly things like seeing a book in a store and wanting to tell him about it. 

I started to avoid him and cut my time with him short because I started to notice people were making comments about my feelings towards him and hinting that I liked him. I used to feel comfortable talking to him, but now I feel bad because I only hangout with him when there are other people around and I don't share as much as I used to (I think he noticed too). 

I really like him, but I don't really know if I do like him or it's just because we connect and we are very similar. He is very awkward and it can be very frustrating sometimes, but I can relate to him and I just really enjoy his company. 

I don't like that people are noticing my feelings before I even know. I don't' know what to do, should I stop hanging out with him, or just try to reinforce the idea of friendship to him more (it kinda sucks because I don't want to be his bro just because I can't be with him). So confused
<bot>: I think I might like my first male friend and I don't know what to do because of religious differences. Confused about feelings and next step. What should I do?