I am falling for my best friend but can't think of how to tell her
About a year and a half ago I found myself in alot of trouble with the law and my family. I lost everyones trust, including my family, and lost the trust of my girlfriend at the time. I fell into depression pretty badly at the time and didnt want to build a new relationship at the time, I felt unworthy in a sense after loosing respect in my family's eyes.
I met a girl at school during those few months that really made me happy, genuinely happy, I forgot about all of my problems and troubles when she was around and we just seemed to have fun. Because of how I felt at the time I didnt want to go into another relationship because I realized I would have much time to spen away from home for a few months. I stayed friends with her and we ended up spending most of our free time together talking about whatever, it didnt matter because whatever the topic was it was always fun.
Anyways, a year later at this point in time we are best friends, she tells me about everything including who she does and doesn't like, what she has and hasn't done, and I am the same way with her, we still spend most of our time together and always try to include each other in our plans. But as of the last month or so I've had a change of feelings and am starting to fall for my best friend, the thing is this: I don't want to tell her about how I am feeling because I don't want things to be awkward between us, if things got awkward, Id feel incredibly alone, and I don't want her to think the wrong things either by keeping my feelings about her, from her.
Is this normal? and what should I do before I make myself look like an idiot to the person whom i feel comfortable enough to do things that I would feel like an idiot doing in public :S