Hello redditors, I'm a friend of the girl that interests me, we met the first time 3y ago. After spending all the 2017 togheter, where we had meet up every week as university collegue, now I understood that I truly like her. I I went out with her last week to be sure that I can really build something with her because we have common interests and now i wanna try to ask her a date. The problem is that i already tried, but she brought with her other people, so probably she don't understand that i wanna hang out with her alone or maybe she don't want to hang out alone with me. She's also very busy with the exams and canceled an appointment for next week with me (so I'm wondering if she feel something for me or not). I will meet her after tomorrow for sure and what I wanna do is just to ask her to hang out alone for dinner because i feel something for her. I'm afraid because she can say no and mess up our friendship as conseguence. What would you do in my shoes?