im in love with my best friend.. problem?? Options

[PINAYSTER]

ok. i've known this dude since 8th grade..
im a junior right now..
he's been my best guy friend ever since!
of course puberty kicks in and i suddenly happen to have feelings for him..
at first i thought it was nothing and i was just happy that he was always near me

i wanted to make sure to keep me from being confused..
hahaha.. i would do stupid tests and everything..
like little flirts and stuff.. and everytime i do it, he would smile and my heart would just stop.yeah yeahh.. i do like him.
haha.. yup. im stupid!

i've been holding my secret love from him for a long time already..
we see each other every school day.. we eat and drink the samething (freeload!)
how else should i stop from loving him??
i get sad whenever he's absent or when he doesn't pass by me during passing time..
im a sucker for him.
we're best friends and i dont wanna ruin my friendship with him.. i mean.. we're really close and everything!!

then... before christmas break.. i've decided that i'll tell him (finally!)
but.. it didn't turn out so good.
it turned out.. that he has always like me as a friend.. and never more..

he has never like me
and he will never will <-- that's what he said.

of course i regret ever telling him..
he ignored me for a week.
i've cried of course during those days..
but then.. we started talking again..
like it never happened..

i really thought he liked me back. i really felt like fool.
he kindness and everything fooled me.
he told me things no guy would tell me.
it hurts just thinking about it.
but my heart tells me not to give up. should i?

[*icecreamisyummy*]

I had somethign similar happen to me a year ago, except my friend did like me back but we told each other about it at the wrong time, when we got into our first fight over a guy....as in we were on vacation and i was suppsoe to meet up with a friend and i never told him about my other friend and he figured there was something there and well it turned into this big prob. well we gave each other some time. i mean we still talked to each other inschool and what not, we still ate lunch together. and we are the closest of friends. we help each other out with relationship problems and girl probs and guy probs etc. i still have a thing for him. and i know he knows but we just go along with it. so when we told each other we liked each other we had no idea that it was gonna just make our relationship a lot better....it was jsut a matter of time. i hope this somewhat helped