Tell you what... that's a weird 17 year old if he's chasing after a 14 year old... there is a HUGE maturity gap in those three years... somethings really wrong if he can't find a girl with his own maturity level. That's not saying anything bad about your granddaughter... the difference is developmental and normal... and he's playing on the much younger girls ego to be getting the attention of the older boy... I'd don't think I need to elaborate more on the nuances of why... and what might be going on now if not in the very near future. And he's dangerously close to being an adult legally while she won't even be 16 yet.
http://moraloutrage.net/state-laws/n...-consent-laws/
I see a future with him in a jail cell with a bruiser named Bubba with homosexual tendencies.
Check the link above... it will be statutory rape the day he turns 18... the age of consent in NY is 17.
Of course more has to happen than just talking... and that will be when she sneaks away... without chaperoning.
Boys that age have one thing that occupies their mind... that wreaks terror in the minds of the parents of a girl that age.