I need you to sort out all my problem!

Ok, I will make this quick as this is the internet and you probably have other things to do like eating chips or watching pornography. I have known this female for 3 years, we have been friends this whole time (but not like besties - we don't go on holidays together and our periods haven't synced yet). We have always been a bit of a 'MAYBE'. I am male, and have also been spending time in my gap year going around places on our earth. I have now returned from earth and female has returned into my life. We meet at the local beverage establishment every week, and now I realise the feelings in the past (i.e. picturing her as my wife and drafting some wedding vows) have returned. I get an unusual fizzy feeling. When I leave for the night, I go home and try to sleep, but the fizzing feeling continues. When I wake up the fizzing feeling is still there and at some point in the night her pixelated face has become my desktop background. When I'm standing on the bus or in the supermarket waiting for milk, the fizzing feeling intensifies and refuses to stop. And now it is a lovely Sunday afternoon when I should be out practicing my flower-arranging and yet I am stuck inside my shed asking random people on the internet what I should do with my life. As I am friends with the female I would like to just have a really awkward 'LOVE ME?' conversation with her, but then I heard about this thing - it's called 'dating'? and you have to go through several months of antagonizing, forced conversation and lots of french food before achieving the same result. And I don't even like french food - so please, can I just say stuff, she says no, and move on? She almost definitely isn't clinically insane and on the face of it it has been said that I am a 'nice guy'. I don't want to freak her out rushing things, but then that would mean I would lose the deposit on the wedding ring. Please help!

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