And I'm sitting at home, doing nothing except for surfing the web. Is this what my life's gonna be like? If i'm like this at 16, what am I gonna be like in my twenties?

DWGT, I know how you feel - I'll tell you a wee story now...

It's June this year, and I'm going to the graduation for our school. It's not my graduation - the year above's - but we're invited, so I'm kitted out in kilt and the like. We're up dancing, and this girl that I've liked for ages (still liked, and must have liked for about a year at the time) starts dancing with me. Quite out of the blue, you could say...

Anyway, the night goes on, and it's the last dance, and it's a slow one - the only one of the night (can't remember the name of it...). I pluck up the courage and go up to her and ask her to dance, and she says yes...So we're dancing, and so towards the end of the song, I do something that I wished I'd done for ages.

"Er, I've liked you for a long time, and, er, I was wondering if we could, er, go out together some time?"

She doesn't hear me, so she takes me to the side. Even more embarrassed, I ask her again. With her bashful smile which she seems to do, when her cheeks go a wee bit red and she smiles nervously, she says "I don't know." The poor girl doesn't want to hurt me by saying no, but she might as well have laughed in my face. I knew she didn't want to go out with me...When we leave, she comes up to me and gives me a hug, asking if I'm ok...I say yes, but it's obvious I'm not.

I still like her to this day. It's like I'm there, and I don't know if she thinks I still like her like mad, but nothing's ever gonna happen. Ever. Thing is, she never seems to show any interest in having a relationship (or even a wee kiss) with the boys...So why not me? She's not gay, but I'm hardly pot-ugly (that's the one conclusion I draw, although with the amount of girlfriends I have I doubt it quite regularly).

It'll happen DWGT. "These Things Take Time". Whatever's gonna happen, will happen. What's for you will not go past you. If this is gonna happen, it will. If not, then the right person will come along sooner or later. I'm sure if I were near you (and a couple of years older mind), I'd be round you like a rash...Which is actually quite sick of me to say that, but you sound like a lovely young lady :-)