It's really not fair to criticize his cluelessness. The kid is 14-15. He doesn't know anything about anything except that he has this beautiful girl brightening and bewildering his life. He's only been out of elementary school for two years. To give some perspective on all this, I was a true dense moron at that age, and all the way through my 18th year. I found out later that I had SIX girls interested in me during that time, three of them seriously, and that I had a real reputation for not understanding anything and slipping the net. This kid loves himself as much as most kids do at that age, and the idea that this goddess could reciprocate his feelings is like particle physics.