<human>: Can you give me the gist of the text in a nutshell?

To give you a little background, I play in an orchestra in North Carolina and I'm 16 and am a guy. I play the Cello and so does this girl that sits next to me. I really like her a lot. She's not one of those girls that is in a huge group of other extremely popular girls that are impossible to talk to. The problem is, since we sit next to each other (you cannot change where you sit in an orchestra) I'm afraid that I will make the rest of her time in the orchestra as well as mine, really awkward if I ask her out and it's a no. How should I go about getting some sort of answer? I'm also afraid that she might get asked out by someone else if I wait until the end of the year. 

I have no clue what to do in this situation. Please help me.
<bot>: Girl that I like has to sit next to me for the rest of the year. Don't want to make me asking her out awkward for the rest of the year.