A lot of people can relate to that.
What my boyfriend did is he told his friends he liked me. I was reading in the corner of our classroom, and his friend was grabbing him by the shoulders and shoved him by me and told me he had something to say. With the rest of his group screaming from across the room, he asked me to be his gf and I was in complete shock, mostly just that someone willingly liked me lol. But now it's been a year and a half and we all gud. So basically what I'm saying is- tell your friends and they will know exactly what to do (hopefully). But that's just from my experience with significant others.
And I get the shyness. My mom and I at the store literally go around the aisles just so that we don't have to go in an aisle with a person in there so our social awkward butts don't have to say "excuse me".
I hope all goes well. I'm here for ya!