Hi Richard,
At your age, it is easy to mix up love with infatuation. What is infatuation? See the description below from Wikipedia.
Infatuation is the state of being completely carried away by unreasoning passion or love; addictive love. Infatuation usually occurs at the beginning of relationship when sexual attraction is central. It is characterized by urgency, intensity, sexual desire, and anxiety, in which there is an extreme absorption in another. It is traditionally associated with youth.
However, infatuation doesn't always revolve around sex. It may also be defined as an extreme want to simply be around someone. Infatuation could also be a crush, the urgent want to develop a relationship with someone.
Infatuation obliges the person to concentrate on the "object of their affection"; therefore, this makes the infatuated person continually think of their "crush." This is seen as all-consuming, which is therefore easily interpreted as love, bringing the afflicted person to proclaim statements such as: "I love..." when they are (generally) romantically infatuated. This inability to identify between infatuation and love brings about the commonly-used phrase: "Love is blind" as the person involved finds it difficult to concentrate on other matters or see fault with the person(s) they admire.
Richard, while love is patient, infatuation brings the feelings of jealousy and distrust, sometimes, even violence into the relationship. Infatuation might lead you to do things you will regret. Think seriously before you take a jump into it.
With love, Patrick