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You cannot control how he feels when you tell him you just want a casual platonic friendship. His feelings and behaviors belong to him.
I would tell him that you don't want to go steady with him or anyone right now and you do like him as a friend but you aren't ready to go beyond that at your young age.
Do you have mutual friends so you could go out as a group until he accepts this?
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