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Sorry, this is going to be a big post. You can just skip to the last paragraph.

What's your thoughts on dating friends? I made a new friend a few weeks ago and she is amazing. She's nice, outgoing, funny, cute, actually cares about what I have to say, also loves Kandinsky (best abstract painter EVER!), has a phobia of balloons popping just like I do...etc. A few weeks into school, I noticed her for the first time after she felt my hair (she wanted to see how soft it was). I got these overwhelming butterflies in my stomach. My first thoughts were, "She's really cute." So anyways, we became friends after weeks of me awkwardly greeting her.

I'm really relaxed around her now. She came over to my house last weekend and we played Monopoly, built part of a gingerbread kit, watched an episode of The Walking Dead, and she stayed for supper and watched the Avengers movie (then we google imaged paintings by abstract artists I like). She started coming to my school the last couple months of grade 10 because she was being harassed at her previous school. I asked her on Facebook about her "Interested in men and women" thing. She told me she's bi, but prefers girls, and said she feels as though she's not attracted to them whatsoever. When she came out to a couple of friends at her old school, it turned out they were homophobes. Then the rumors started... So anyway, she has a boyfriend. I don't think she's ever dated a girl before (nor have I).

So anyways (that was pointlessly long), if I ended up having feelings for her and vice versa, would it be a bad idea to date? I have never dated before, kissed, etc, so I don't know very much. Like, I see her as a friend, but I know I could easily see her as more. I haven't felt this open with someone for a long time. If we did date, then broke up, could things go back to the way they were before? By dating, I mean hanging out, taking her to a fancy restaurant, kissing...but that's it. No sex or anything. So anyways, what's your thoughts?