How do you end something with someone when there’s feelings involved?

Okay so like I fell for this senior while I was a junior. I was looking for a relationship when I hit him up, but he had just gotten out of one. He told me that that wasn’t something he was looking for, I’ll have you know that I’m not a virgin and that I’ve been in the game before you know? And well it turned into a more friends with benefits kind of thing, but he didn’t want to go public and I understood cause people talk a lot of shit in my school, so I agreed. But the thing is that he brought feelings into it, of course I liked him but he would talk so sweet to me and act as if we were together, even had the audacity of getting jealous and give me a ducking treatment for letting him know I was going out with one of my bff. I talked to him a week before my period and told him about how I was feeling on how it didn’t make sense because of the ways he would talk to me and he said to just let things flow and like I saw it you know, I wanted to let things flow because I like this guy but it’s been almost 2 months now and like I don’t know, I really feel like ending this. I like him so much and I he know he likes me too but my friends tell me that I deserve to not be a secret, and that i should end it soon since he is leaving to college so that i could move on faster but idk /;