He’s in love with me but doesn’t want to date me yet?

I’m so confused on where me and this guy stand I use to date him in high school but I broke up with him because I was going though depression and my parents divorce I was going through the worse time in my life and I told him I didn’t wanna bring him into my life with all this baggage and no confidence, 5 years later I meet him again on mutual friends group chat on Instagram and we immediately clicked, we hung out a couple of times he said while we where apart he went through trauma with being with this girl who cheated on him, and he said he’s trying to heal from this, he told me he’s in love with me and he has never stopped thinking about me since we have history together, but he kissed me yesterday and I don’t know what are we? , I want to be with him again so I finally got the courage to ask him what are we? what do you see in this? He said he’s scared and he wants to take time with me I understood this but I felt kinda sad is this bad that I felt kinda sad? I love him still and it seems he still loves me, dose he not wanna be with me?