Been/Am there Renegade. It's a headache alright. Same thing happened between me and my best friend at one point (well, it was before we became best friends). I liked her, She liked me and we were both too worried or shy to say anything. Two years later we actually found out we both liked each other and laughed about it. I don't see her much these days but we decided to stay friends and stay on the "safe" track. But I am in the same situation now, a very good friend of mine and I have began to hit it off and it's exactly the same for me, all I can say is if she's as good as my friend then you're a lucky guy.
All I can say is you might have a chance, When ever i'm in this situation I get paranoid which makes me doubtfull when really there's more chance than I think. And from the ammount of threads you post like this questioning advice and such I can guess you can't have too bad a personality, sometimes nice guys don't finish Last so there's hope for us yet
. I'd say go with Nodachi's advice, it's what I'd do/am doing.
And whatever you choose to do Good Luck with it, it always helps to have some nearby. And as everybody's been saying, if it doesn't work out there will be another chance with another, you won't find the right girl the first time around unless you're dam lucky! (hence the luck
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