Ugh yeah, I'm perfectly happy with a prim and proper, platonic fawning for a while still. I mean, these *are* children, barely teens, not even in high school yet, to say nothing about being an adult!
My hope is that this will do another time skip soon, to end of high school or a bit later (age-wise) and it will turn into a brilliant coming-of-age story, with the developing romance in full swing.