Everything points to success except for the age difference, what do I do?

A female age 30-35, anonymous writes:

Basically me and my best friend are very very close and we spend a lot of time with eachother and eachother's familes and friends. For about a year or so now i have known this guy who lives next door to her, we get on really really well and from day one he has always been very flirty with me and very forward about the way he feels about me. This sounds all good and well but unfortuently for me I am 17 at the end of this month and he is 16 in september, which i know is not that much of an age gap but at this age it comes off as more? Anyways for the first few months he was forward towards me i just kinda brushed it off and was just nice to him because i did not really think of it as much because he was younger and probably just hormonal etc. Then i did not talk to him or really see him for a while because yano life just got in the way, but last weekend my best friend had a get together at her house and a campout sort of thing, it was the first time i had seen him in ages and when i did i was actually really shocked coz he looked so much older then the last time i seen him and sounded older acted older. He was still very flirty though and spent most of the night talking to me, asking who i was intrested in, claiming he was waiting for the right girl when i asked about him. Since last weekend i have felt towards him more then i ever thought i would, i feel stupid and it can never happen at this age because it will just come across as wierd? It is more because we are both still at school well he is gonna be in yr11 and me in 6th form but i know for definate it would be seen as a bit wierd? Now i cant seem to get him out of my head and as stupid as all this sounds i still feel held back by the age difference. Hopefully in the future something could happen for us but i am just really confused and frustrated about what to do about how i am feeling. xxx

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