We've known each other since high school. I dated my friend years ago but we decided we were better off as friends. We didn't want to ruin the frienship so we went back to being best friends. Last year out of no where he started acting really weird and making excuses that he was sick/busy with school until I eventually thought he was upset with me so I kept apologizing. He never really told me what was wrong but said it wasn't me, I still felt bad so I kept checking in occasionally to see if he was okay but he would be very dismissive and distant. At the end of last year he finally told me the truth that he was in a relationship and we couldn't hang out anymore but I could reach out
whenever I wanted.
Since then I would send funny tik toks, ask how he was doing etc but most of the time I would occasionally get Ï hope all is well" or "lmao" then he would disappear again. We randomly saw each other once back in March and talked for an hour, a week later I tried to reach out but never got a reply. So we went into no contact for around 6 months. Then in October we ran into each other again, talked for a little then saw him a week later with his girlfriend, they both staired at me and he didn't really say anything. Not long after that incident I saw him posting graduating pictures and I got so happy to see him finally graduating I decided to call and this is how the conversation went.
Me: "Hi"
Him: "Hi"
Me: "What are you doing"
Him: "Nothing much"
Me: "How's work?
Him: "Who is this? I'm not sure who I'm speaking to because I lost all my contacts"
Me: "You don't even know who this is"
He said hold on – I'm assuming he tried to search my number on Whatsapp to see if he had any saved chats but nothing.
He then told me he'll call me back then hung up
He then hung up and added back my number, I'm assuming he went to whatsapp and then saw my profile picture. He tried to call twice but I didn't answer then texted that he lost all his contacts and he's really sorry, tried to call again and gave the same story when I finally answered. I told him I really called to congratulate him but since he didn't know who it is I'll go. I told him he forgot about his friends and he said no.
I then hung up and he followed up with 2 texts "I feel really bad" "Once again I''m so sorry". He still has my number added. This happened last week and I haven’t replied yet. What should I do? Should I try to have a conversation with him over call/ person?
TLDR my best friend intentionally deleted my number from my phone but played it off as he “lost his contacts”, I felt embarrassed and sad, not sure what to do