Is it normal to wish you were closer with someone of the same gender?

To start off, every year my family goes camping with my Dad's side of the family. Last summer, one of my cousins had two male friends who went the same week. Almost ever day while camping about 7 of us hang out (including cousin's friends. I started feeling really comfortable with one of my cousin's friends and started asking him for advice with many different things. I even started telling him stuff i wouldn't tell jus anyone. The week flew by and soon it was time to leave. I was to embarassed to ask him for his email or msn at the time cause I was 13 at the time and he was 15. I thought he might laugh at me. Now I will probobly never see him in my life again. Now almost a year later I sometimes have really weird episodes where i wish that person was back in my. He was the only person i ever talked to about personal things like that. I wanna know if this sounds weird and hopefully not gay; cause now i have no one to talk about private stuff. please help