Jarlin Aww Jarlin. I think that his question about whether you will meet up with him and his mates are like "do you past the mates test". ;)
I remember one time whereby I was asked by a guy I was seeing to see his friends too, and obviously I thought that we were going for a romantic one to one date until I saw the whole group. My draw dropped. Lol...
Er... and then this is where I saw his friends, and everyone was superawkard, INCLUDING the girls who likes him, likes him. I was or almost fell off m bandwagon. :)
I think if you like him, then maybe say something like "not ready to meet the friends yet, but hoping for more meets up with you as one to one". Maybe he will understand then ?