Well, I said earlier that I hadn't said it before, but now I can say that I have.

It was at our first school dance this year. We were slow dancing to the last dance. I had told her before that I had something to tell her, but I needed the right moment. She had pestered me for a bit before giving up. And so while dancing, I said, 'Remember that thing I didn't tell you?' She said she did, and so I said, in complete honesty and full of meaning, 'I love you.' She just hugged me and held me until the end of the song, where she said she loves me too.