Should I make a move?

Hello! I've never really had a relationship before and as a result I'm rather inexperienced with the whole "making a move" malarkey. I put this mostly down to being a bit of a nerd and being generally considered physically unattractive by most people. Anyway, I met a lovely attractive girl (a year younger than me) at my sixth form roughly a year ago, before I went to university. We gradually got to know each other better by walking to college together and I soon realised she was exceptionally bright, inteligent and above all kind. I inevitably devoloped a crush on her and I suggested meeting up in the Summer holidays. We met up a couple of times (just the two of us) as friends and she seemed to enjoy my company (she said she was glad that she could have a proper intellectual conversation with me). In September, I had to head off to uni (about 4 hours away) and I thought I would grow to accept that that was probably the end of it. However, I soon missed her company. Although we didn't really chat on Facebook that much during the semester (we both had lots of work to do and we never really chatted a lot online before), we were both keen to meet up again in the Christmas holidays. Sure enough, we met up again and I still felt the same way as I did before about her and she still found me interesting. Since going back to uni, I've felt increasingly lonely (possibly as a result of not much communication with the outside world, because of revision for my January exams) and I've thought about her more than ever. I've become increasingly paranoid that she will meet someone else really nice and start a relationship (my logic being someone else is bound to notice sooner or later what a wonderful, friendly person she is). I still don't know if she is interested in me, even if she does think I'm a nice guy, nor do I know whether or not she's met up with me just to be polite. I'm fairly certain she can tell that I fancy her, but ultimately I don't want to screw up my friendship with her by asking her out, if she doesn't reciprocate the feelings. Should I declare my feelings for her and perhaps risk my friendship or keep quiet and make the most of what I have? If I do declare my feelings, should I do so immediately or should I wait until we meet again at Easter? Sorry for the massive essay, but any advice would be much appreciated :)

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