So a past oneitis has been seeking my attention recently and wanting to get back in touch. She never knew i liked her as I had always been busy pursing other more attainable goals. Point is, she is back and wanting to meet up.

Now i know better than to think this is my chance to finally win her over, and in truth I would kind of like to just get it out there so I don't have it internalised anymore. So my idea was this. When we start talking about the past, tell her that I had liked her at some time (to clarify say we are talking about a past event or something and I say something like " I can't believe how different things feel now than they did then" and she when she asks what I mean tell her that I had a big crush on her then) but realised it would never work.

I'm thinking this would either 1) be something fun to discuss and eventually get this idea of me and her out of my head by going through all the reasons why it would never work or 2) have a 1 in a million chance at planting the idea which would then put me out of the friend zone. Any input at all would be nice, through preferably with an explanation.