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*First off, I don't want to make this a huge wall of text so if there's any questions you guys need to ask in order to form better advice don't hesitate to ask for more details.*

I know quite a few people are going to come in here and straight out say "Get those feelings off your chest and let him know how you feel. He might feel the same way!"

It's not quite as simple as that unfortunately,

We ([20F] and [20M]) spent most of our childhood years as really great friends, most weekends and school holidays were spent the whole day climbing trees because his parents didn't have a TV. Everything went pear shaped in our friendship when we moved into our teen years. I think he became attracted to me, I'm not 100% sure as I am pretty oblivious when it comes to love and sexual attraction so sometimes I over-anaylaze to compensate or miss things completely.

If there were other people around, friends, parents, siblings, he would try to avoid me and couldn't look at me for more than 2 seconds. I was hurt by this and let him know, he promised to not do it again but as soon as someone else was in the room with us he couldn't be near me.

Fast forward 6-7 years and we see each other occasionally in the street and he always says "hi" first but we do not talk outside of that. I was over him and didn't feel any attraction anymore, until a few weeks ago at the local beach where he gave me an unusally long hug. I thought that I was completely over him but now a barrage of feelings have come back full boar and I can't stop thinking about him.

The question is, what should I say? should I say anything? Maybe he never liked me at all and this is all in my head?

If not, what are some steps to get over this so that I don't spoil our barely existent friendship?
<bot>: I have a newly developed crush on an old childhood freind, do I say how I feel or just ignore it until it goes away?