It's a happy eek, and it's not all flowers and violins romance.
She's part of a group of friends and one boy and her have always got on particularly well. Last week he saved her a "Coke" bottle with her name on and then admitted to his friend he's got another one he's keeping :)
He texted her today asking if she wants to go to the cinema a week on Friday after school to see World War Z (it was filmed locally, that's the main reason!), some others "might" be coming.
She's very flattered, knows that she's in for a fair bit of teasing about it. I'd never really thought about an age for doing his, she's in a very small school (there are only about 40 people in her year). I've met him, and his parents, at school events, it's an unusual arrangement as its a 3-18 school and so they've known each other since p2. They're boh now in s1 (=y7) but as the system works differently up here, she's 13.4, he's around the same.
Would you be happy with this? They've gone to cinema/bowling etc in mixed groups before, but this would be the first time on their own.