It's either he is shy or is afraid that he will we judged negatively by his friends if he does a first step to get closer to you. Still it seems that it's the guy that has a problem, not wanting to be offending, cause especially with this "hiding behind a tree situation" is very weird. What's more if you don't talk in real life then it means that you don't have much in common, so basically what's the point wasting time and energy on people that don't deserve it. About his friends it's very probable that they were discussing you, but because in reality you don't know 100% if they really judged you negatively or not you should just ignore them.
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You may just need to ask him directly.
There's not enough context here to truly know why this is happening
You must be a little high maintenance and I bet the guys think you are very cooperative person.
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No idea; have a conversation with him about it
Omg leave him
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