<human>: Hello fellow redditors, 
so I've been studying with this girl from my school for the last 5+ years, and we just entered our last year of school. Being in the same school, grade and class for so many years, we've had many joint experiences but we never really got to talk.

I never really thought of that girl as a potential dating partner up until a few months ago, sure she was always beautiful but I just never really thought of us as a couple.

To be honest we're kind of the same, usually very quiet unless in a well known and loved company, we both don't like a lot of bullshit and whining and keep thinking positive and optimistically (or so I believe from what I've been able to learn about this girl during all this time).
Though I still encounter several problems in the situation:

1. I never had a girlfriend, probably not too shocking, even I'm not shocked by that fact even though I'll be 18 in 3 months or so.

2. She never had a boyfriend either, not at least one that I got to know of through facebook or anything, also I noticed at school that she doesn't get approached by any guys so...

3. I feel it might be a bit weird to hit on her "out of the blue" after all this time we've known each other for but never really got to talk.

4. I don't really know how to approach her, getting the first conversation going is probably the hardest part because after that things should just flow but it's still sorta difficult, I can offer to give her a ride to school or something but then I need to hope we don't end up in an awkward silence for the entire ride...

I hope you could give me tips on how I can approach this girl and hopefully start a relationship with.

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<bot>: Been studying with this girl for many years, never got to talk to her, started liking her a while ago and need tips on how to get a relationship started.