Just to add more context (don’t know how to edit post)
He also said to me that we do get along and he doesn’t see a reason as to why we can’t be friends and it can work, he just wants to have more matey banter & chat and stop with the conversations about the friendship & having to re-assure me constantly. I did ask him to hang out and he hasn’t acknowledged or replied to it and the week before he did say he didn’t want to hang out with me that week so dunno if I should let the dust settle I just want to know we are genuinely good mates & we’ll be much better pals once we get past this. I haven’t spoken to him about what happened last week as didn’t want to continue that type of conversation.