I dont know what to do with this girl
A little long context:
I am a not a ver sociable person, but i have some friends, one of them included me into one of his groups, Long story short the group of friends had a fight and divided into two groups, one of them was made up by a guy, one of my best friends and his best friend who also is the girl i fell in love with (all of this happened last year or a year and some months ago).
Our little group started to meet and got some New People to join it. After some time i got to know this girl i mentioned and started to like her, her personality is very similar to mine, she is beautiful and always laugh to my jokes and i feel she is the best girl i've ever known.
The thing is that even though i've known her for some time, i Barely know her apart from some things like what career is she going to study, that she loves animals like i do which is alot, the fact that she also is not the best at being sociable and some other things.
She Just sees me as a friend, we dont actively talk to each other unless we talk through the group chat or me inviting her to meet with some friends.
So i wanted some advice on how to make her like me like something more than a friend, i really need this to work because if i fail and she does not like me i will lose all my friends including my best friend.
I know is a Long and tricky text but i actually am desperate