When I was in high school, there was a girl that I had a huge crush on, and she had a huge crush on me, and everyone in the whole school knew it. But we were both extremely shy and never managed to talk to each other. We did hold hands once, and she rested her head on my shoulder, but that's all we ever did.

I graduated from high school 10 years ago and haven't seen her in person since then, but I sent her a friend request on Facebook a couple years ago and she accepted it. We still haven't talked to each other, but every once in a while I see she's on chat and click on her name and sit there staring at the chat thing trying to figure out what to say.

A few days ago, I was sitting there staring at an empty chat window, and suddenly... "<name removed> is typing..."! My heart started racing as I anxiously waited to see what she would say... but then she signed off of chat without sending any message.

I really want to talk to this girl, but I have no idea what to say to her. I don't have any trouble at all talking to other girls, but when I try to talk to her it's like my brain just shuts down and I can't even think of a single word. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

you know what?just ask her out :p take her somewhere you both would enjoy and start from there. My girlfriend and me were classmates as well and we lost contact for over 15 years till I got her MSN and asked her out. I was pretty much brain dead when we were on our first date,I couldn't even remember most of the stuff I said on that date but I'm sure they were all pretty stupid xD. If you find yourself out of topic or don't know what to say you can always recall your high school memories right? and that's something both of you can talk about :p Good luck dude!