Help ! I lke my best friend !?

Okay so he's going through some really hard times..He used to lke me but then he stopped & started lking this girl named Elle okay shes a total she lkes FIVE guys and she flirts way to mch.He went through alot of rough things with her and then i was lke wht if theres a girl who really lkes yhu and belives in yhu she'll be there for yhu and blah blah i was about to tell him i lke him but i didnt .. In the fear of things being to akward. Then he says wht if i know who it is but i dnt want to seem stupid? and then he also says i lked this girl for a while and i never realised how important she was untill now i asked him all the girls except me though and he didnt say it was my friends say its me but today he tld me he lkes someone.. He wudnt tell me who...Wht do i do? Is it me? how do i find out? Shud i tell him i lke him.. Wht if it gets to akward..