Some of ya have quite the stories. My tale isn't the most fun or dramatic, but still a tale non the less.
The closest to dating I've been in was back in elementary. Became friends with her when I was in first grade and she was in kindergarten , and been friends since. Although sometime in the middle of elementary, we both liked eachother, EVERYBODY knew it >.> (Her little brother and his friends were obnoxious about it) But at around middle school things started to change, what happened was she grew up faster than me (Fun fact, biologically, women grow up faster than men, or in other words, start puberty before men) So she's growing up, I'm still... Well me XD So our interest started to become different. So we took a loooooooong break from eachother (As in just sorta quit hanging out for a while) and 3 or so years ago we met up and were like "What the hell? Why did we quit? XD" So we got to talking, relived our quite hilarious childhood but then from that point we realized something (Or at least I did) our futures don't co-exist, our interest are completely different, we're just too different in all the right places to actually be together. And so we decided "Yeeeaaahhhh, let's just stay friends XP" (There was this stupid time where this song got me pumped and I thought "Alright, lets ask her out ^^" It was stupid of me, but happened regardless. She tried doing that thing to reject me easy so like 3 paragraphs later (She's an oddly fast typer) I was like "Guuurrrlll, I am the ONE guy in the world you don't have to explain yourself to XD I was being stupid XP"
I'm the kinda guy that likes to be friends first for a while, then become besties, and from besties, see if it gets further. If it doesn't, cool! We're still besties ^^ If it does, cool! You're mine now >:D And if something happens to where we break up, then no biggie, we'll still be besties ^^ (I like to think that I can't be broken up with on bad terms, and I'll try mah hardest not to be)
Now I have had my crushes and people I've basically rejected. And a few of those crushes are friends even to this day... But they're kinda taken >.< One of them is SUPER nice though not exactly sure how compatible we are (And we're not besties, we didn't hang out outside of class) and the other one... Well that's a story for another day XD (As in never, it's not bad/juvenile, but is a little chaotic to put into words, and I kinda wanna be vague just in case one of them somehow stops by o.o)
Now granted I'm not trying to find "The one" the first time, but i'm not the kinda person to treat dating like a game so i'm gonna try to make my first date "The one" the best I can. (Weather that elementary school "Dating" was actual dating or not is super debatable XD Personally, I'm not sure if I consider dating at that age "Actual" dating. If you do consider that dating, then I guess I'll try to make my second date "The one", but you get me point :D