I met this person in a college class and we got along at first. I switched majors so was in my third year and he was a freshman. Eventually I could tell he was much more involved in having a friendship than I was. He is very sweet and complimentary on the surface but if you talk to him long enough he just makes you feel like shit about all your opinions/ acts better than everyone. 

He always invites me to go places and out of the 20+ times he has invited me places I think I have said yes twice. 

I am not good at situations like this but he makes me really paranoid and anxious. I hate getting messages from him, leave him on read when I can etc.

I also feel like he definitely tries to be closer to me as a bragging right of being friends with an older student because I was talking to some of our other class mates and they said he always talks about me. 

Which is weird because we seriously are not that close. It just makes me uncomfortable. 

Anytime something is going wrong, I automatically think it’s his fault. To the point that someone let me know that there was someone catfishing as me on Tinder and I thought it was him trying to become me or ruin my relationship.

The issue is I know we will continue to have classes together and have shared peers. I don’t know how to tell him I don’t want to be friends. I feel like everyone will hate me because he seems very likeable on the surface. 

Please help, I have no clue what to do.