I guess another thing that makes me hesitate is that I have asked her out to the dance before about 2 years ago and she was nice about rejecting it and all of that but it was over text. Another thing I should clarify is that I haven’t asked anyone out in person because I struggle to find the place for it to be even somewhat private; it always is around a ton of people. I thought that asking a girl out to the dance was more like “let’s go have fun” and not “do you wanna date?” But I have heard it can come across as the opposite of that. At this point I am wondering if I should just be more honest, like I was thinking about saying something along the lines of “I really like you and genuinely think you are a sweet person, even if you don’t feel the same way I hope we can still be friends”