So there's this girl and i'm feeling some confusion now?

There's this girl i have known for quite a while now, when we met i definetly felt attraction but she was dating i have always felt some attraction to her but out of respect i left it and we have become good friends. Almost two months ago she broke up with him and we have been hanging out a lot since then and i feel the attraction again. Im positive it's mutual but there is apprehension between us both because of our friendship, i have the feeling that we both feel similarly but because of our friendship we think differently of how each other are feeling? haha hope you all understand what im trying to say. Tonight we hung out and we got o n the topic of relationship's and she got talking about what she likes in a guy and all of those things and vice versa for myself. She even went to the point to say she really likes a guy to initiate in touching etc. and i felt it was an obvious hint, but because of our history im so unsure. And i do like this girl im just so unsure and i have never felt like this before... It always seemed so obvious with other girls. We have kissed a couple times and we have held each other but it never really went past that and it was only for a short period of time, and we never really spoke of it after. I feel like i should just stop being a pussy and just come out with it but it's one of the most difficult things i have tried to do for some reason. I'm hoping some of you guys have some opinion or something to say that may help.