[Mallika]

Thank you so much Sarah and Hollie for your advice.

After seeing your replies this morning, I reached out to a mutual friend who was really close to my best friend (let's call him V). This mutual friend told me that he had a similar experience with V, whereby V stopped talking him and avoided him. So he had a similar experience as me.

This definitely makes me think that what the both of you mentioned about people feeling like "moving on" might have been the case with V.

I'm happy I got some closure on this matter. At least now I know that he has seriously been avoiding people for some reason right now. If V were to ever reach out to me again, my door will be open for him.