<human>: Can you condense the text into three sentences or less?

For the past year, I've been hanging out with a couple people that I hadn't really spent time with before.  One friend, we'll call John, I knew at college but wasn't very close with.  The other, we'll call her Sarah, went to school with us, but I didn't know her at all.  John and Sarah knew each other at school.

Anyway, we've been spending time together for about a year.  John, Sarah, and I all live far away from home where we took jobs after college.  They both moved while in relationships, and kept the long distance thing going.  Recently, however, Sarah and her boyfriend split up.  I've really enjoyed getting to know her, and I really do like her.  I'm nervous about trying to ask her out because I don't know if she feels a similar way toward me, and I don't want to make things awkward in our friendship if she turns me down, or if it doesn't work out.

I don't know how to approach the situation and I know I'll kick myself if I don't take the opportunity.  Any advice on how to proceed?  Has anyone taken the chance and it all worked out great?  Has anyone taken the chance, been turned down, and dealt with the resulting awkwardness?
<bot>: I want to ask out a girl I've been friends with for a while but don't know how to do it without making it awkward.