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redcaimen 
I prefer Ineffables advice to Ed's and EL72's. She clearly likes you. Make it easy on yourself and her and keep the "date" simple. Since you already know she sees you in a positive light opposite sexwise (trust me, she does) just take the opportunity to enjoy being out together. Asking her out solves her problem, which was does he like me. As Monty Python pointed out in the movie The Meaning of Life, there is no need to go stampeding toward the clitoris. Heres a wacky idea, why not get to know each other. There is no need to try ripping her bra off on the first date.
Seconded. Whether somewhere down the road you have sex with her is, in some sense, irrelevant. If you're both ready, and it happens, great. If not, I'd hardly make that the benchmark for success at the age of sixteen as you're starting down the road of dating. It puts way too much pressure on you and her.
As others have said, she clearly likes you. I'd respond to that in kind. Suggest that you have lunch together, go for ice cream, get together and study, or whatever. Anything that allows you to spend some time together and makes clear that you enjoy her company.
Frankly, I think the best thing that could come of this for you -- whatever else does or doesn't happen -- is just for you to get more comfortable accepting that girls are going to be interested in you, and that it's ok for you to express interest in them directly (instead of burying it beneath umpteen layers of "just being a friend").
The next step (or the first step, if you can muster the courage) would be to ask her out on what's clearly a date. If that happens, you
must have the courage to kiss her.
Even in the unlikely event (given what you've described) that she turns out not to be interested in you, I think it still would be valuable for you to hit the ball back across the net and find out that being turned down isn't the end of the world.
Bottom line: If you sense that a girl you like might be interested in you, your first reaction should be to make it clear to her in a direct but casual way that you're also interested (rather than running to post about it here and ask us how to respond

).