Just had some questions to ask

"I... Hum, I just had some questions to ask you." you said.
"Really ? Why me though ? Ok, I guess... Now I'm really curious what this is about, you sound a bit mysterious..."

You didn't really want to lie to her, and, at the same time, you did want to keep your powers a secret from everyone.
You'll just start asking then. First, something that will ease the process :
"Flo, would you rather have to answer me with the truth everytime I ask you a question and not be bothered by that fact, or always have to tell the truth to everyone ?"
She looked at you for a second, and answered "Hmm, I rarely lie anyway, but I guess it'd be better if it had to be just one person. So, first option." As soon as she was finished giving her answer, her inquisitive look returned, as if you never asked the question. Cool, that part worked too, you thought.

"Flo, do you have someone in your life, a boyfriend, maybe ?" That was the most important question. If she had, you would have to take care of that. "No, not right now. I never did, actually..." She looked down. "Did you ever have a crush on someone ?" you asked. Without getting her eyes up, she answered "Hmm, not really, no. Not anything strong anyway, I did find some guys cute here and there but that's it." You gulped down. The first part of her answer disappointed you a bit, as you were still wondering if she ever thought that way about you, but the second part got your hopes back up.
"Was I ever one of those guys ?" She looked at you, blushed and looked away "Y... Yes... At some points, I thought you did or say things that I found cool. That was back in the time... Though today..." She blushed really hard... "Those questions, you're hitting on me. And you look so handsome... I might have some feelings growing right now..." She was clearly embarrassed now, blushing hard, avoiding your eyes, squirming a little.

God damned... How can she be so innocent ? It's like she's a cliché of the pure maiden... A part of you wants to preserve that, and a part of you wants to defile that, take it for yourself, and keep it as a treasure. Maybe a bit of both.
Most importantly, she did say that she found you cute back in the days... Even if you never had gotten those powers you could very well have visited her today, talked for a bit, taken her to the movies or something... You're pretty sure it would have worked... Without the powers, you would never have had the courage, but the fact that it would probably have worked made you feel a mix of emotions... Anger, fear, surprise... How much of a poison can a lack of confidence be to one's life ? You can clearly see both paths from where you are now : the life you could have had if you had the self confidence to go and tell her, and the life you're realistic enough to know that you were going to live : alone, fantisizing about her everyday. You swore to yourself to always think twice about things, to double check if you weren't bailing out of a situation out of fear.

Back to reality, at least what reality was now. It still seemed a bit unreal, to be fair. She understood that you were hitting on her, well, it was ultra obvious, but still she did seem flustered about it and not upset or angered or disgusted, or anything.
time to be blunt, then, now or never.

"Flo, I... I have to tell you that..." She looked up at you, and now, it was you who avoided her eyes "I love you." You let a few seconds pass and resume "I always found you really cute and hot and never really had the courage to tell you... Then, I went to college, and thought I'd move on, but... See how it worked ? So, here I am, today..."
Okay, you put that pretty well, did not look too much like a stalker. Maybe a bit ****, though...
She looked at you, digesting the information.
She was always extremely frank and down to earth two things you'd consider tremendous qualities but actually had cost her a lot of friendships, she always had one or two close friends who understood her and that was it. And so, you weren't surprised one bit with the pragmatical answer. "Look. I've been asked out by a lot of guys, and I always turned them down, because... Well it's just because I'm picky, let's be honest. They were all the same type : jocks or playboy wannabes with nothing in the head. And I know you, you're actually smart, also, y... you... got really handsome..." she blushed again "so, I don't know if I can respond to your love immediately, but I'm willing to try out and see if anything grows out of it."

You look at her, you want to hug her so badly right know, squeeze her in your arms, but you're still hesitant, you don't want to rush her. She wants to start something with you. You kind of understand her, now, you've always been pretty good at figuring people out, actually. She'd fall in love with you in no time. She probably already started to fall, in fact.

You were snapped back out of your thoughts by her voice "But still, that was really out of the blue ! You just came, asked me a bunch of bold questions and told me that, geez... You're lucky that I'm not a normie girl who would have freaked out... You'll have to make it up to me somehow" And with that, she pulled out the Tang, super cutely.
Okay... Now, your thoughts about her went more to the naughty side...
"Can we... Sorry to ask you that but... Can we go inside ? I'm burning up, out there..." it was really more about what you had in mind for the following, than the heat, you were immune to sunstrokes, now, anyway.

"Well, yeah, come on in" she went to the door, opened it and went inside, you followed her.
It was a really bright house, window bay in the lounge, no doors between said lounge and the kitchen which had huge windows too, and the white curtains diffused the light even more... She went in the kitchen, you heard the fridge open and close, she came back with two cans of mint ice tea. "Do you want one ?" "Yes, definitely, thank you" You followed her in the dining room, she sat at the table and you sat diagonally to her.

She really is a bit careless, letting me in like that... What if I was actually a creep, about to do terrible things to her ?