okay again, like i said but it definitely should be reiterated
if you must date, don't do it as a freshman. freshman is your you year, your 'figuring out what the fuck is happening' year, and you do not need to factor in any relationships other than family and friends.
do not date anyone more than a grade above you and try to stick only one or two years above you if you must
i, as a sophomore this year, was fifteen. i developed a crush on a senior(who i did not know was a senior) who turned out to be eighteen(also didn't know that till after the crush started). we did end up dating after a weird couple of months(like half the school year) of him being fucking weird and then dating a fourteen year old freshman, which i should have seen as a red flag. especially because he ditched me as my homecoming date because i was only fifteen. he was full of shit and whatnot but
point is, i dated him, and i think we were about five/six months strong before i broke it off. around four months he started becoming kind of a piece of shit, guilt tripping and manipulating me, as well as lying to and stealing from my parents and then claiming he didn't remember stealing anything so
long story short, babes, learn to recognize clinical narcissists ahead of time