without sounding like too much of a sweetheart id suggest

tell her that you really like her as genuinely as you possibly can.

allow her to buy you lunch, but stick by your guns when it comes to paying the bill when you feel like it's your turn, or better still, tell her its because you just want to and its not a macho thing. then follow that with a hug and leave it there and say no more of it.

just be happy for the time your together. your 17, so likleyhood is you'll have lots of relatonships before your 21. Kyle has a point, although a pessimistic one. it will all be over one day, one way or the other, shit will happen, that's a certanty. just be glad that's it's happening to you.

ive got a girl calling over now to sleep with me, she's a friend of my flatmates.im not going to have a relationship with her but i do have a connection with her that were makng the most of. so everything doesnt have to be complicated.

be yourself, be chilled out and accepting, listen to her, and think before you speak.

as far as the boyfriend thing goes, she'll probably stopranting about that anyway eventually. but next time she talkes about him make an effort to take her mind off it and change the subject at the same time by doing something spontanious and/or endearing.

anyway the oracle must go and have a shower so enough basking in my reflected wisdom for one day, go out there and live it up.

pills.