problemmms

So I have gotten myself in some sort of mess. I have to find out how to break things off with the guy i am talking to right now while keeping our friendship in tact. I also have a new guy friend that I am very scared that I might get to attached after a while but I really like talking to him. They say that guys and girls cant be friends because it usually ends up that one falls for the other or some other catastrophy that ends the friendship. So you can understand my relunctance to start friendship with the opposite gender. on top of all this im still interested in this guy that i was talking to a couple of months back. He didnt want a girlfriend at the time and now..idk. but he doesn really talk that much so I have to initiate most conversation which I can do but I never know what he is thinking and I dont want to annoy him so...greatttt stuff right.