Okay so here goes, there is this guy that I have known for a few months that I have worked with, and we sort of just started talking these past few weeks or so, and I really like him. He is SOOOO nice and SUCH a great listener. He is cute, but that wasn’t the first thing that attracted me to him; the first thing that attracted me to him was him nice personality through guest interactions. We work at the same place, and we have been snap chatting a lot, and last night we just went out on a work group friend thing, and he drove me and another guy and it was super fun. We went to this haunted house thing and I don’t like scary things at all and within the first five minutes I was so scared I was legit ready to leave because people were coming up and grabbing onto us and being super scary. But this guy was with me and he was sort of trying to like protect me I guess? These actors/actresses would chase after you and I kept hiding behind this guy let’s call him “F” and next thing you know when people were coming after me I was hiding behind F and pulling him in front of me. This haunted house involves sort of a ride thing through the woods and i was super scared and he offered for me to hold his hand he wasn’t joking, I was scared shitless. He legit held my hand while these actors would hop up on the wagon and go through the aisles touching and scaring the people. We must have held hands for literally over and hour. It wasn’t anything more than that. It was just sort of sweet and innocent. Then he messaged me saying we should hangout sometime and honestly I could really see something happening with this guy but how do I tell my parents? I am 16 and he is 18. I have never dated a guy or anything before, but obviously I have liked other guys but I haven’t actually thought it was going to maybe go somewhere like a date or something until F, because I know F actually likes me. But I am afraid of commitment to to someone so what should I do? When he asks if I want to hangout again or go out what should I say? What do I tell my parents? Is the age gap that bad? I am turning 17 in about 6 months...

Thank you and no judgment would be appreciated.