My Best Friend and Love

Tonight my best friend said he doesn't deserve me and kept saying how he just messes up in life and how he doesn't want to hurt me so he won't keep our relationship. I've told him everything that I feel. How I love him and how he changed my life for the better. We've been best friends for a year now. He helped me out of my depression in the end of Junior year when we started dance lessons together. Now we have been inseparable. We aren't dating but we had gone through all the motions a couple would. I love him. And for once in my life, I know exactly what I want. And that's him. Lately we have been intimate. We also gave each other our virginity. But when I asked him what we were yesterday, he shut off from me. He said that being with me was paradise but when I asked him that reality had hit him. He was afraid to screw it up and hurt me. So he's pushing me away. It hurts because he's the one I love the most in this world. I'm happiest with him. I'm terrified to lose him. I can't handle it without him by my side. Do you ladies think there's anything that I can say to him? I've told him everything. I can't lose him over this. He's worth fighting for. He has a hard time accepting the fact that I love him because he can't imagine anyone feeling that way. He's dated twice before and I haven't at all. I just want to know if there's anything I can do to convince him it's okay. Anyways, thanks for reading this. You're a trooper if you read all the way through.