[Lioshika]

I guess I should start kind of from the beginning. I had been dating a guy, Zac, for about a month. We get along great. We both read (similar genres), music tastes are close, how we view things in general match. I had thought everything was fine. I went to ask him where we stood, relationship wise. He was like "Oh. I like you, but I'm thinking just friends." Yet he sat there with his fly undone and my head in his lap (nothing explicit happened that night).
I asked if we could talk about it since I was hurt by this fact. His reason was "I do like you, but I'm unsure I could love you that way." Once I was home and my mind calmed, I texted him and said to not count me out yet and he had said okay. I wonder if I should even bother trying to be with him. I do like him a lot and I know a few friends tell me it's too early for him to worry about love but how would I even go about asking him to give it a chance. A month isn't very long. Or am I just full of false hope and doomed to fail?