Just Adding Lemon to the Wound, Help? Options

[teishya]

A continuation of my last thread. Huzzah. not. Anyway, to recap, my best friend, Jim, has confessed to me a second time last week after we hung out. I don't like him back, but I consider him my best friend and we're close, but I just don't feel like things would work out. I told him this, and he says that he hates creating this 'gap' between us again.Anyway, he was having some trouble with other friends, but he said that he'd handle it.

Well, he went off to Mexico for the week, and when he comes back, he declares that he's going on an AIM Fast (not going on AIM) starting tomorrow. He says that he needs time away from everyone, thinking that this is the best way to get away and that he feels like an 'outcast' and so 'distant' from everyone, but who doesn't? I think that it's completely stupid for him to think this way, but I didn't say anything since he seemed so depressed already. And he ends the AIM conversation saying:

Jim: i guess this realization really hit me
: when it came to the person i used to trust so much more than anyone i've ever trusted before in my life
: and now i don't even wanna talk to her
: yet here i am pondering as to what she thinks of me

I'd post our past conversations, but it'd take too long to edit the convos. I'm just so confused on what to do. I don't want to lose him as a friend, and I'm just not sure what to say. I just checked his away message and he seems happy and my friends said that he seemed okay today too. I've avoided him all day online but I'm not sure if I should take any action too soon...help?

Heh...long post and lame title, lol. my badd