Now before you go off saying I'm a monster and stuff like that, hear me out.

There's this girl I met on the bus about a month ago (right when I broke up with my then GF), and she got to talking to me randomly and we ended up kissing on that same bus ride.

Well, I used to see her every now and again and drown my sorrows by getting intimate with her. Now she thinks I'm her boyfriend and I don't want anything to do with her, but she's a pretty unstable person. I've heard from a guy I met through her that she seemingly falls for every guy she meets. She has very low self-esteem and I'm afraid she might hurt herself if I'm too straight up with her. (She also just turned 16, way younger than me)

The worst part is that I should feel bad about this whole situation, but I don't. I really couldn't care less about her except for the fact that she might cause herself pain because of me.

Any advice about how to let her down gently...
and am I a bad person for not feeling any emotions for her and just using her?

This forum seems to have opened up a box of relationship/life questions for me
I'm glad it did, I'm learning.

"I'm really sorry, but I'm on the rebound. You can't expect anything of this relationship. I'm just not in the right headspace to be with someone right now."

Feel free to take the blame on yourself if you decide that she isn't strong enough to handle the truth.

As long as you're honest with her now that you realize things, I don't think you've done anything wrong.

The longer you lead her on, the harder it will be for her. So you need to tell her ASAP. And I mean NOW.

Something to the effect of "look, you're a great person, I enjoy hanging out with you but in all honesty.. I think we should keep it to only friends between us" should do the trick. Don't be an asshole.

Yeah - be honest and end it now. It's not your problem if she takes it badly.

Your not, like, 30 or something are you?

tell her you're gay.

uh stole the words right outta my head,
seriously thats the easiest way of letting a girl go,

mabye try to be a bit more convincing by ass fucking your best friend?

Not even close to 30, I'm about to enter my 20's

anyway as tempting as going with the whole gay thing sounds, I'm going to follow the advice of the first three posters and tell her the truth. From what I'm seeing it's the best way to go about doing this

this is why guys should never mess around with younger girls, exculding some of course, younger girls tend to be needy and have difficulty with relationships in which guys have no serious intentions. i know if i was in her shoes when i was 16 it would have broken me. its funny that 2 or 3 years can make such a difference in how people act/respond to things

I spose you could tell her it's not a good idea that you two see each other as your sexual needs are quite perverted, and you don't want to expose her to those type of things at such a young age.

She'll either understand, and back off, or you've found yourself a girl that'll think she has to do some kinky and perverted things to stay with you. What you do is then up to you.

Win win, I rekon.

No.

Level with her.