What could be taking her so long?

let me tell you a story about a boy and a girl. i, being the girl, have told this boy that i like him, and he said, i think we should be just friends. so we were, then a couple years pasted and told him again, and again he said i just want to be friends. i waited another year and told him again, he said the same thing, only this time i didnt let up. i told him every couple days always asked to hang out and whatever, we talked a lot, a lot, we talked until we couldnt anymore, we literally knew everything there was to know about each other and still he only wanted to be friends, but then i just said to hell with that, i took him, i held his hand and i kissed him. we've been together for 8 years now. found out he liked me the whole time and was afraid that it would ruin the friendship. and that is something really scary. she could just be afraid, but dont let up, and you can wait forever, because if you dont then you didnt really like her in the first place