<human>: Can you condense the text into a few key points?

I'm a University student and my course started this September. I met this girl who's a fellow student and these last two months we started talking more frequently about many things, and she even helped me get through a tough time.

Recently I began to notice a series of "signals" that could mean something: she sat beside me when her usual seat was taken during one lecture, she wanted to hug me after she found out it was my birthday one day...

Then during the Xmas break I decided to gift her a videogame since we talked about it and she was interested, and she replied with a sweet email saying she was very happy and that she was going to miss me these weeks.

Now, I do like this girl and I'd like to ask her if she's interested in something more than a friendship before I get "friend-zoned", but at the same time I don't want to ruin everything!

I was thinking of starting by asking her to study together for our first exam, but any suggestion would be helpful.
Thanks.
<bot>: I have a slight feeling that she cares about me but I'm not sure if she means only as a friend or something more, and I'd love to find out without ruining everything.