Someone help me with this guy?

Before I get started, I'm American and he's finnish.

Okay, so there is this guy I know that I really like. We've been talking over Facebook in a group chat with our other friend. Well this other friend brought up a really hot Lithuanian guy she had met and we were both going crazy. We left him out of the conversation and he said he was going to sleep with a sad face. Me and my friend private messaged each other and decided we needed to apologize. So I did, and he said it was okay and that I didn't need to apologize because he was bullied for 3 years and they never apologized. I feel really bad but I can't understand why he was mad if he doesn't like either of us in that way. What do you think?