Sorry, English is not my first language. I'm from Catalonia, so when I use certain words like "scouts" is more of an approximation.

She (F20) and I (N19) have been friend since 2-3 years, but this last one we have created such an incredible bond that I fallen in love.

We know each other since we were 13 and we meet each other in a scouts summercamp, we live in a small village of ~8000 people. I always liked her, since the first day, but I always told myself that she was older ad. that I didn't have any opportunity with her.

Time passed and she got a boyfriend, a nice boy a couple years older than me that was also in the scouts, with who was friendly with me. Their relationship lasted until summer 2023, when she broke with her. Think there was some mutual cheating in there, but a friendly break up.

After this Is when I started to develop the feelings for her, and our friendship grew quickly.

After a long year of she debating, she met a guy (M27). And soon after they started an open relationship.

Now, mainly we met on the scouts, where we both are instructors. Last year we had the same group of age and we found ourselfs hanging a lot to prepare everything.

In the summer, I was already very in to her, we both went hiking with some of the scouts before the proper summercamp. There we were inseparable, but one night she told me about the situation she was with the other guy. I felt bad, for myself, in that moment. But she is such an amazing person, a beautiful, fantastic, charming and funny person that I can't get my head off her.

I'm single, and recently I've known she probably is about to broke with that dude or she already have, but I haven't dared to ask her. In some of the village fests we have coincide there have been some tension (like good) but I don't know how to proceed, I don't know if giving her some space or telling her about what I feel. I don't want to frighten her, but I love that woman so much, and we have such a fantastic relationship I would marry her. I fear she doesn't like me in a romantic way, and that telling anything would throw our relationship.

Thanks everyone who has read all of this crap, feel free to ask anything :) I just wanted to share it with someone.

TLTR; I've liked a girl since I was 13, we have always been friends, but in the last year we have ground very very close and now I think she is free and I've felt some genuine unresolved tension, but I don't know how to proceed.