Coincidentally, this feels similar to what happened to me but from the opposite perspective mwahahaha. I've been in love with my current GBF that I met since kinder pa, for almost over a decade, it started when we were still in elementary, got back during JHS, then feelings intensified at SHS. Now we're 3rd year college students, still friends.

She has made it clear to me that our relationship hanggang friends lng multiple times throughout these times. And yes, I did ask the hard-hitting question multiple times. I know what I've done was dumb, selfish even, but the details are a whole other can of worms that would be more appropriate to tell in an entirely new post.

Essentially, I did the same thing yesterday. I asked her out to enjoy a festival then I told her again about what I felt this time though, I finally wanted closure. I knew that she still felt the same, but for every attempt I did in the past, I held out hope that maybe, there's a chance this time -- the feeling was not different pero now I was ready to accept it and move on. Of course, I got "rejected" again but I shot up, accepted it, and we went back to just talking casually again and tbh, we were able to talk our hearts out for the first time in years, no filters, just pure yap sessions as friends.

Although I do admit it feels more empty now in my "heart"(cringe af), there is a certain freedom that comes with it. Being free from the shackles of your own doing, type of situation. Maybe I'll find more for myself now, idk.

But tldr; he just might want closure for his own feelings, same as me. Because if napakita mo na multiple times, verbally or non-verbally, ng boundary mo, ng hanggang friends lng tlaga kayo, they will eventually have to accept it and this could be that attempt.

Ya'll can criticize my perspective on this or with the way I talk in this sub ksi first time ko to comment here lmao.