When I say best friend, I do not exaggerate. Me and her are extremely open with and eachother and tell eachother everything. We also hang out alot (saying "i love you" is a very common phrase with us). We have that kind of realtionship where, for example, this year we went to winter formal together when we both had no dates, and I took her out for valentines day when neither of us had a valentine. We did date for a short period of time in our first year of knowing eachother, but that was too young for it to really be anything of meaning. We quicky went back to being best friends and have been ever sense.

The problem really comes down to the fact that I would have no problem dating her right now, but shes got something going on in her head that I don't understand at all.

Whenever we start to hang out alot, the feelings/urge of dating come back. I've told her a few times over the duration of our friendship how i feel about it, and her response is usually that shes not interested. But then she is quick to point out that we will "probably end up dating later in high school".

Things like "You need a car. We wouldnt have to rely on our parents. and we would be able to see eachother whenever we want" and "You would make a great bf if you didn't have braces. XX had braces and it was a total turn off when i kissed him".

Then I usually go ahead and push the thoughts out of my head and get over her. But I'm getting tired of having to do that. She is always doing things like seeing houses on the street and saying "You're going to get that for us when we get married". We talk and laugh about how many kids we are going to have and what our jobs are going to be and all these things.

Things like that. Is it totally understandable for her to want to wait? Some people I've talked to say that she shouldn't want any of that and it shouldn't matter how old we are and what not, but others think that she might have a good point. I personally can agree on something like the car thing (I hate having to rely on my parents in a relationship. It is the most unromantic and annoying thing ever).

Advice?