What would you think about this? +BQs!!!?

So my bestie is a guy and I've asked questions about him a lot. But people have been thinking that we are dating and were not. We don't like each other like that. He gets paranoid all the time too. So last week he said "if anyone read our messages they would think we were dating. So let's take a break because I don't want people to think that but I'm not tired of you." He always says were "quite close" and he doesn't normally let people get real close to him like that. So we didn't talk or see each other for four days. Then when we start talking again he was really happy. Well yesterday I told him that I was an awesome mood and he said "me too but its even better because of you." Then we saw each other last night at the meeting (what we call church) and he did a sly "text me" gesture as I was walking out so I did when I got home and he told me that he enjoys talking to me which in almost a year of being friends he's never said. And they seem like normal things to most people but he doesn't do that normally. So today i asked why we have to keep distancing ourselves from each other and he said "I just don't want things to develop." And Idk why he would say that because he knows where I stand and I know where he stands. Or I thought so and the next message he completely ignored the whole "were open with each other" part and changed the subject.

Normal besties don't talk like that do they? And does it sound weird to you? What would you think if your bestie of a different gender said that to you?

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Thanks! Good day!