Scared of dating?

[ZzeWatermelon]

There's this guy that I will probably be dating soon, if everything goes "as planned" (considering in my case it never does 90% of the time, everything is spontaneous). For the record, I just turned 17 and he just turned 18. Small age gap, but it's there.

The thing is that I am terrified of a relationship for so many reasons. First of all, he has dated girls in the past (made out, had sex...) and I haven't even kissed a boy yet. I don't wanna appear unexperienced considering I'm 17. The other thing is that he's from the same high school as I'm from, and he's pretty popular (he's not a douche though) so whenever there's a new couple, all infos circulate fast and I'm inexperienced again and scared of letting people see I am, if I was to hold him or kiss him in public....
Also he's not really good looking. I don't find him that. I don't even like him that much, I find him cool and funny and that's it. There's romantic interest but small... not love or something.

I don't know, my friends tell me to go for it try. I haven't kissed and it's not like I don't want to but it frightens the CRAP outta me. And it's not like I don't wanna lose my V card but he intimidates me.
Another point is that we're in the middle of the month of march, he's leaving for college in september... is there a point to date?

I URGENTLY need advice!

[Elysium]

If you're not attracted to him, if you don't like him, if the fear is outweighing your investment, and if you're literally intimidated by him, it doesn't sound like a good idea. It sounds like you're doing it for the sake of doing it, which is not a good reason to do much of anything, especially date.

[Croconaw]

It sounds like you only want to date him just to get that experience. I advise you to wait until you find someone you actually develop feelings for. Put yourself in his shoes. You wouldn't want a guy you like to feel this way about you. It's not okay to date someone if you don't have feelings for someone. Playing games with people hurts. I understand it's hard to be inexperienced, but I would wait for the right person. That way, your first kiss would be so much better. Your first time experience would be so much more memorable.

[ZzeWatermelon]

We're actually going out already

[Just JT]

And how's that going for you guys?

[ZzeWatermelon]

I hate it

[RJH98]

Well, that should be a good indicator to tell you that you're not right for eachother, don't you think? I understand feeling the pressure of getting rid of that "unexperienced" label, but at this point you're just using him and I don't think that is fair towards him...