Should I just nut up and ask her out already?

One of my good friends and I have been talking quite a bit more, and we have been seeing eachother outside of school a lot more (and intend to keep doing so). I’m only 16, so it’s not a really serious thing, but I really care about her on a different level than most of my friends. I feel like she might to, because she generally comes to me to tell me about her problems. I’ve been contemplating asking her out on a date for a while now, but I think I’ve been too scared to actually to do it. Another thing that complicates it is that she recently broke up with her long-time boyfriend, and I don’t even know if she’d be interested in going out again so soon. Well, what do you think? Should I just nut up and ask her out?