<human>: During the summer, one of my best friends and I confessed our feelings to each other. We couldn't actually start the relationship because she went out of the country for the summer to visit family. She gets back in August and she tells me that she wants to wait a little while to start the relationship, she tells me that she still feels the same way she did, but that she had a very tumultuous summer and that she just needed some time to sort things out. This past weekend I see her in person again for the first time (we don't go to the same school, but we do the same co-curricular) and we start talking, she tells me what happened over the summer, and I can now understand why she needed some time to sort things out, and I can tell that she really is still interested. So here's my issue reddit, I want to ask her out on a date when I see her again next weekend, and so here I am asking for advice.

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<bot>: My best friend and I confessed to each other, we don't see each other at all over the summer, she comes back needs time off, and now I want to ask her out on a *first* date