Please help! Any advice helps❤️

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So I fell in love with this guy, and we have been talking on and off for the last 3 years. I haven't dated anyone other than him, or thought I ever loved someone other than him. He's a family friend so my mom and his dad talk, she saw them in April and he asked about me. Him and I started texting(he told me he loves me and still thinks about me)but nothing happened. We finally started actually talking a couple weeks ago. I told him I wanted to go slow, he said he did too. We've hung out a few times(it's difficult because he lives 20-25 minutes away) and he told me he loved me. We FaceTimed every night and it felt really nice to talk to him again. When we talked about dating we kept saying we are going slow, nothing's wrong with that. We started talking more sexually than going slow would.
I have no idea what we are and I am scared of getting played. My friends say that he's just a fuckboy and wants sex. I really don't want to believe them and I want to see the best in him... should I take a chance of getting fucked over? or should I keep talking to him to see where it goes..?