How should you take it when a guy says it's not the right time for a relationship?

cuddlyqueen
Long story short... a guy and I have been best friends for two years now. We are really close, always together, and always hugging & holding eachother. Everyone just assume we are together but we are in the friends zone. I have really strong feelings for him... at the beginning I saw him as a close friend, but the past 6 months, my feelings for him has grown so strong that I have endless sleepless nights over him. From my perspective, I am 80% sure that he has feelings for me, but even though he tells me how important I am to him, and he's always hugging & holding me (we haven't kissed), he hasn't done anything to get us out of the friends zone. Last night, I had a house party at my house and he was sober and I was a little drunk and my friends ask him when we are gonna make it official. And then he said to them that "It's not the right time"... basically that he has stuff in his life to take care of and blah blah blah... and he also added ''she knows it's not the right time''. Like what do you make from that? How am I supposed to read it? I feel like most people always feel like they should wait for the right time and that is their plan mostly, but when you REALLY REALLY like someone, you'd through caution out to the wind because you really want the person... but it could also be that he's being careful not to damage our AMAZING friendship. How should I take this up? I'm sooo confused. I badly want him. (I'm 24 by the way, and he's 22)
How should you take it when a guy says it's not the right time for a relationship?
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