<human>: To be clear: I don't think I'm friendzoned. We were friends from the start of college, and I spent the first two years of college slogging through a relationship with someone else. As a result we kind of just got programmed to act more like brother and sister or something. We're really tight, make each other laugh, turn to each other when we're upset, complain about who we go on dates with, and so on. I honestly thought of her just as a friend and thought nothing could ever happen - until just recently her best girl friend said she thought that she had liked me for a long time.

I guess I'm just struggling to figure out how to turn things romantic without it being horrifyingly awkward. She's a very independent, confident person, and I think she's worked to bury her feelings of liking me in that way. Plus I think she's imagining how awkward it would be with our friend groups, most of whom probably have a similar conception of us as good buddies who they'd never dream of beginning to date. 

It's been killing me since that one friend mentioned it, and I think I've realized she's who I should have been with all along. I think I'd trained myself not to think of it too. How do I get this going?!

Can you provide a brief overview of the text?
<bot>: Trying to ask out my best buddy, who for a variety of reasons has been programmed to think of herself as my best friend and nothing more.