<human>: Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?

To start out, I will try to explain the situation the best I can.

Before this year, I had very few friends. Sure, I had "school friends" or whatever you would call them, but no one I hung out with on the weekends or could have a thought-provoking conversation with. As a result, I felt very... alone. The end of my sophomore year was pretty rough in this respect.

However, a little bit before the start of my junior year, I started to sort of break out of my social shell. I found an awesome small group of friends (four including myself) and my life has drastically improved over the past 8 months or so.

But here's where I'm encountering another issue. As stated in the title, I developed a pretty hardcore crush on this one girl (we can call her M) after a few weeks of getting to know her a little more. This has now lasted about 7 months, and has only gotten stronger. The reason I don't ask her out or anything is simply because I don't want to ruin the groove i've got going on right now. I think that she likes me back ( you never know though), but if we break up, I'm afraid that i'll lose this awesome group of friends that I only just found. What should I do?

In addition to this problem, M is leaving for college soon, but I still have another year left of high school. So what should I do in regards to that? I am just so confused right now. Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
<bot>: I got friends after a long period of being a loner, but shortly after found myself crushing on one of them, and I don't want to ruin everything by making a move. What should I do?