I'm incredibly in love with one of my best friends and he doesn't like me back. I've been extremely obvious, kind of on purpose, so he almost definitely knows. It's kinda weird though because we sorta dated before (it was in middle school and we didn't actually like each other, we just confused our platonic feelings for romantic ones). Yesterday I had been leaning close to him, and one of our friends said "you two are so gay" (he's a trans man and I'm nonbinary). He brought up how we're exes to prove how nothing like that would ever happen again, and it was a more subtle hint. Then today he said something along the lines of "I don't want to date any of my friends, not again." That was a much less subtle hint. I had to laugh along with him and agree, but it hurt really bad. I don't know what to do. I guess all I can do is love him from afar, because I'd rather have him as a friend than as nothing.