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Probably waiting for you to get of legal age (16 at least) so he won't be as restricted as to dating you and such.

Because you were only in the 9th grade. I know a high school senior- she looks on the freshmen and sophomores as children. That's a huge maturity gap at that age.

He's probably really shy and couldn't work up the guts to tell you.

You need to ask him that because only he knows.