>>11380942Read the last few lines of that photo you cited.
>FLIRTINGAnswer your question? Yes, confessing feelings for a friend is creepy and weird, because it I plies that the whole time you've been together, you've been misrepresenting yourself, and that the real you is a craven little manipulator.
Years of sitting quietly and hoping? Wretched. Never do that again. You are so firmly rooted in being a buddy that I doubt she will see you as a lover in any case, but if you want to try, FLIRT. Tease her. Make innuendo jokes. Be a bit sexual.
What you fear is rejection, and her not wanting to be around you anymore because she is uncomfortable. Here's what you are going to have to do: flirt, and see if she flirts back. You aren't going to get a clear cut answer unless you come out and tell her, and that will scare her off. You will have to do some signal reading.
This picture is what I suspect you of doing. I can only hope that these feelings you have are a recent development and haven't been present for all of these years you have known her.