Is he interested in me or planning something big?

Whoever is reading my question, I must warn you that this is pretty long. Here it goes.

I absolutely don’t know what to do. I am so desperately lonely because I have never ever been in a relationship. I think the only guy I want to be with is my best friend. However, I am a little concern about our situation. He lives in Iowa while I am stuck in Ohio. We’ve known each other for almost five years. We’ve known what makes us mad and know what makes us happy. He is like my other clone because he and I like almost everything. For instance, we love cars, anime, video games, action movies, all types of music except for country and polka, and many more. I’ve started to have deeper feeling for him sometime in January. I don’t know if he felt the same around that time because his ex girlfriend sure had a problem about us being friends. One minute he mentions my name and next thing I knew, I get a nasty message from myspace. She wanted him to stop being my friend and he dumped her because of that. Later that time, we told one another about our fantasies (he brought it up). I told him one of them and he told me his. I be damned if he and I have the same thing, but I didn’t tell him that because I think it would be too weird. Then, we’ve recently told each other that we have deeper feelings for one another. I think it was too deep because I can feel him trying to say “I love you”… I know I really wanted to say it, but that would be to damn weird. Anyways, He told me that he’s been looking for a girl like me, but doesn’t want “to ruin something that is already perfect and stable”. I told him that no matter what happens, I will always be his friend. Well, I think that kind of change. I don’t know if he is playing games with me or what. He is always telling me that different women are throwing themselves at him. It’s always “some girl gave me her number, but I don’t know if I should call lol” and that seems to be an everyday thing. He was interested with 3 other women and talked about writing one of them a love letter because he “thought that was the love of his life”. However, that didn’t happen. He gave up trying to write a three page latter. Now, he is not interested in anybody, but really wants me to visit him sometime in 08 and suggest that I should live in Iowa. I would love too, but my mother is certainly not going to let me go because she over protective, even though I am about to turn 20. I will visit him probably during spring or summer. Anyways, what should I really do? Do you think he is bringing up women so I can lose interested in him? Think he might have something planned out in 08? Please give me your thoughts. Thank you very much :-D