How to see if this guy likes me

Basically I was stood with a group of friends when a guy who I know through mutual friends and go to college with (although it's very large) came over to chat with us one of my friends made a joke that I'm not a hugger so he said its because I've never had a good hug so messing around he threw his backpack to the floor and came over and gave me this long tight hug. Then we all went to our lessons and after my lesson I was stood on the quad with a friend and he came over and asked for my number so I gave it to him and he said "I'll pop you a text" and a friend of his came over to tell him they were leaving and said to me "he'll text you later" though he wasn't there when the guy asked for my number. Then the guy texted me it's Marcus (his name) and we had a short convo like hey how are you then briefly about exams before it ended (I sent the last text but it didn't necessarily need a reply) then at college on Friday I didn't really see him just once walking quite a long way ahead and we haven't texted since (everything happened thurs it's now sat) and I wasn't sure if I should text him? All my friends I would ask are friends with him and I don't want it to be weird. We don't really know each other we first met in year 8 at a friends house then didn't speak until year 10 when we hung as a group a few times (we went to different secondary schools) now this last year at college we see each other occasionally but it's normally a group thing as he fairly close with friends of mine and twice he has come and had a quick chat when it's just been me. So basically I wanted to know should I text him or should I wait I don't really have anything to say to start the convo as we only see each other at college and don't share any subjects or classes so all I came up with was hey how are you? :) but that seems boring? By the way we are both 17 thanks for any advice I'm completely hopeless with guys!

If this guy really liked you, he'd be in your face constantly. By your post, he's not shy because he hugged you for the hell of it. Shy people are more reserved than that. If you felt good and had a confidence about him, you wouldn't worry about being boring or weird, you'd just do it without hesitating because you'd know how he would react. You don't need anything in common to start a conversation with this guy (or with anyone for the matter) you just need to go ahead and do it to find out for sure and stop the doubt of where you stand with him.