So I like this guy in my class at college and he likes me back. He isn't really anything like the type of guy that I would normally like but he's just so funny and sweet that I can't help but like him. The problem is I'm a really really shy person around most people.. and even more so around him. I can't help it. I just get all quiet and I can't look him in the eye for more than a second. I don't know how to get over it. My shyness is something that doesn't go away, ever. I have friends I've known for years and I'm still pretty shy around them. I really want to be able to talk to him and be myself around him. I don't want him to like me for something that's not really me if that makes sense.

Also I've never been in a relationship before or anything close to one and I've never liked a guy that's actually liked me back like this so it's all so weird and surreal to me. I'm scared to get too into it in case it all goes wrong. I'm meant to be going out with him for the first time on valentines with 2 of his friends and their girlfriends as like a triple date and he wants to buy me gifts and everything.

I'm just so scared and worried and I'm just angry at myself for not being able to talk but I don't know what to do.. What am I meant to do if I don't stop being shy around him? He says it doesn't bother him but that's for now.. and even if it doesn't bother him it bothers me a lot. I don't want to be stuck like this. It makes me hate myself so much. How do really really shy people even manage to get into relationships?