Breakup(?) Can I save this?

Ok so I have the weirdest, most difficult situation I have ever seen. I'll give some background to hopefully make this clearer.

1 year ago (8th grade, I know I'm a bit young) I began a relationship with a guy I had crushed on for years and he on myself. Everything looked promising and the entire class agreed we were the cutest couple ever. It was great until we encountered some barriers. We both were very VERY shy and things that would normally go on between a couple were not. Hugging and holding hands were forced and mostly weird. Kissing was out of the question and after a month we settled into a awkward phase of little physical contact. We never saw one another outside of school and I did and do not have a phone or social networking account.

We were both determined to make this work so we made an agreement to stick to conversations and this cute little cuddle that we did when sitting next to one another ( basically we each intertwined one of our feet together) so it was good. Right? Wrong.
I became extremely ill one day and was pulled out of school and never returned with no warning to anyone, not even I knew about not returninguntil later. Our fragile relationship was destroyed by the complete isolation and nasty rumors flying around. And that was it

Skip to present day. I am doing much better and will go back to public high school next year. I had moved on from my past relationship until earlier today. I was. Searching for my brother in the high school and ran into many of my old friends. One of them ran off and came back dragging my "ex" with her (keep in mind we had never officially broken up and it had been a year since we had last spoken)
"So you guys never really broke up right? So does that mean you're still together?"
Floored by the sudden appearance of my ex and the question I nervously replied
"Well, uh, technically no."
I wish I could shove those words down my throat. After seeing the shocked look on my friends faces I quickly turned and fled without even looking at my ex. Suddenly I realized that I did wish we were still together but now I fear I have ruined it.

Can I save this? What can I say to my ex to hopefully repair and strengthen our out of touch relationship? If we do get back together would increasing our physical(non sexual) contact help?
Thanks for reading my long and rather unbelievable sob story.
Any help is greatly welcomed