<human>: Give me the gist of the text in a nutshell

(First time on this sub so I am not sure what to expect)

I am not really experienced in asking girls out. I just have never really been that interested in too many girls besides maybe a few. But for my HS career, there has been this one girl that I always teased, as a friend, and she would always joke around back. (Side note, this girl is in my "friend group") Than, this summer, she was in a group that I toured overseas with as a musical ambassador. We spent a lot of time together, and on the plan ride back, she wouldn't stop physically touching me and then fell asleep across my lap. Fast forward to now, about a month later, we haven't really talked too much since than. But I can't stop thinking about her. I want to ask her out, but I feel like like it may make things awkward in my group of friends, even though I'm fairly confident that she likes me as well. To get to the point, I ramble on a lot trying to explain everything, should i ask a close ututal friend of both of ours to see what she thinks, or just ask the girl I like directly if she will go out with me?
<bot>: Should I ask a close mutual friend of my crush and I if it would be awkward if we dated, as I don't want to ruin our friend group? Or just go for it.