The Worst Mistake of MY life, Can I have advice? Options

[x3Death.By.Knife...]

Well, I need HELP!

In now in 8th grade.. but What i'm now telling you.. took place when I was in 6th grade. You see this guy that I liked starting talking to one of my friends on AIM. And she told me about the things they would talk about. So, one day I was online and he IMed me. [I assumed that my friend had given him my screen name] And we started to talk, and I found out that he liked me.. and I like him too. It was like a dream come true. Untill one day he asked me to be his girl friend. That's when I panicked. I told him that I'd think about it, and thats when I made the biggest mistake of my life. I told him NO.

You see, I am the youngest in my family.. I have two older brothers. And at that time neither of them had EVER gone on a date. So I told him no, because I thought that my parents would tell me that I was TOO YOUNG to go out. Now I'm starting to like him again.


Now, I'm in my last year of middle school, and I know that high school next year I'll meet cute guys, new guys. And What if I might want to go out with them. I want your advice. Should I go behind my parents backs and go out with a guy that I meet... Or should i tell them. But if I tell them, HOW? I feel so scared to tell them, cause my father seems so strict. He's going to have to meet the guy and make sure hes not someone my dad doesn't want me going out with. He hasn't said this, but I KNOW it will happen

Any advice? Please?

-Christina

[inthemudhole]

Well...
I doubt that it'll be the worst mistake of your life. You're only going into the eighth grade....you'll meet a lot of other people as you get older, and relationships (boyfriend/girlfriend ones, anyway) shouldn't be your main priority right now anyway.

However, if you want to talk with him about it, I suggest you do it in-person. Basically just tell him what you told us just now.

As for telling your parents about it or sneaking around....the noble thing to do would be to speak with your parents about it, but that doesn't always get you where you want, so I guess if you want to risk it, you could sneak around. That's bad advice for me to give though.

[x3Death.By.Knife...]

Well...
I doubt that it'll be the worst mistake of your life. You're only going into the eighth grade....you'll meet a lot of other people as you get older, and relationships (boyfriend/girlfriend ones, anyway) shouldn't be your main priority right now anyway.

However, if you want to talk with him about it, I suggest you do it in-person. Basically just tell him what you told us just now.

As for telling your parents about it or sneaking around....the noble thing to do would be to speak with your parents about it, but that doesn't always get you where you want, so I guess if you want to risk it, you could sneak around. That's bad advice for me to give though.

haha.. not to me is it bad advice to give.

And you are right that its not the worst mistake of my life. I just feel that I had this GOLDEN opportunity. That a guy that I liked ACTUALLY liked me back, and then I turned it down. So maybe its not really the worst mistake of my life.. but I just feel like I regreted it especially since I like him now.