A few months back I met this person (22f) at work (she is in no way my underling, completely separate areas) and we hit it off pretty much day 1. Tagging on facebook, speaking daily over WA, even during office parties we actively tried looking for each other, stuff like that.

This, of course, developed into me getting a HUGE crush on this girl. We went out to eat a few times, nothing really happened (my insecurities got in the way of me trying to ask her on an actual date) but I could feel a real chemistry I had not really felt towards anyone in a while. One day talking about plans for the weekend, she casually mentioned she was going on a date; which resulted in me asking her the next day if she wanted to go out to dinner sometime in what, in my head, made it very clear my intentions were romantic. She said yes, but I honestly thought it was a forced "yes" nothing would actually happen, as she said her schedule was rather busy for the next few weeks. I tried accepting this and tried to move on.

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A few weeks back, we went out to eat for her bday, and, to my surprise/dismay, she brought up the dinner we "hadn't had yet". That, of course, was weird for me, as every now and then she mentions "this guy I've been seeing". The conversation kept flowing really well after that, and we've gone to eat a few times again, every time with the conversations going from a lot of silly inside jokes to deep subjects to family history, etc.

Now, my issue is I am a pretty obvious person when I have a crush. While I'm not overly obsessive, I do tend to have details that pretty much scream "I'm interested" (yes, that's a defense mechanism to avoid having to properly express feelings, working on that), and I'm pretty conviced at this point she knows I'm interested in being more than friends, which makes her brining up a dinner that, again, I'm pretty sure there's no way to read as anything other than a date, confusing, to say the least.

There is an actual date for the dinner (next Monday) and I know I have to come clean to get this pressure of my chest; however, I would like to know beforehand, is it worth it to get my hopes right?

TL;DR: Confused about mixed signals, would like to know how to proceed.