Hey guys,
As much as I wanna keep this brief, it’ll probably a novel before I get done with this, so I’ll go ahead and apologize in advance, but basically, I’m looking for advice for my situation.
Let me start off by saying that I’m a 17, soon to be 18-year old senior in high school. The past few weeks I’ve been slowly starting to like this girl I go to school with. She’s in the same study hall as I am as well as rides the same bus, and has sat behind me or diagonally behind me for quite a while now. One of the problems here, though, is that she’s only a freshman, probably 14/15 years old. Another problem? We’re basically strangers.
Now I think this girl is absolutely beautiful. From what I’ve seen, she’s pretty quiet, smart, and mature, and I’ve heard her talking with a junior high kid on my bus about going to church, religion, etc, so I’m assuming she’s pretty close to sharing the same beliefs. I started realizing a few weeks ago that maybe I was starting to like her from a distance, but after a while it got to the point where I felt like I was full on crushing on her.
The problems I mentioned earlier, though, seem to be obstacles stopping me from doing anything. For whatever reason, the age gap doesn’t bother me, though to just about anyone else it would seem weird for someone my age to be dating a freshman. An even worse problem is that I don’t think we’ve ever said a word to each other. I have no chances to talk to her at school, and on the bus she usually sits with friends that talk to her, and I don’t have much of a chance there either. Locking eyes with her for a couple of seconds a few times is about the only interaction we’ve had with each other.
A huge part of my brain is screaming at me to do something here. Because of my religious beliefs, I’ve always been really picky about girls I’ve liked, and she’s been probably only the second or third girl I’ve liked while I’ve been in high school. Since I’m so picky, I’d kind of feel like an idiot if I let this chance slip through my fingers. I’d love to ask her out, but the fact that I don’t know her hardly at all plus the fact that she’s a few years younger is stopping me. I know it all sounds confusing and contradictory, but could someone give me some advice? I’d take anything at this point.
