Is it alright for a guy to ask a girl who your friends with to meet up one-on-one?

[clueless_one]

There are these girls I want to meet up with but i'm not sure if its alright for me to meet up with them one-on-one at the shops as they are friends with me.

I liked one of the girls I want to meet up with and went via another girl who knows the girl I liked to find out and to tell the girl I liked that I like her. I found out through this other girl (they only know each other, not friends) that the girl I liked likes someone else. I still want to be friends with her and as high school has finished for me, I want to still keep the friendship. I don't have her number but have her on Facebook and just recently she has sent smilies in her Facebook message replies all the time.

The other girl I want to meet up with has asked me to meet up at the shops previously after school, I declined as it was after school and I am usually tired after school (she is in a different school then me). But would also like to meet up with her now that high school is over. I have her on Facebook and sometimes she randomly starts conversations with me.

I want to keep a few friendships with my high school friends and to do so I want to meet up with them. There are a lot of people who I consider are not really good friends, so I want to be better friends with the ones who I feel are good friends (most are girls) and keep their friendships. If they like me and want to date me, they can do things to change it from being meeting up as friends to a date on the day they meet.

So, Is it alright for me to ask these girls over Facebook to meet up one-on-one?
How should I word the message so that they don't think its a date but meeting up as friends?
Is it alright to send a meet up message over Facebook to a girl?

[TheRedViper]

Of course. I'm not entirely sure how close you are with them, in terms of friendship, but it should be fine. I'm still 16 and in high school, and the year has ended for me, and one of my best friends who is a girl isn't coming back next year, and we didn't see each other for like two months over the holidays, but yesterday I asked her via Facebook if she wanted to catch up at the shops, and she said yes and we saw each other for like four hours, and she came back to my house afterwards (we're strictly friends though, though I wouldn't mind if we were more). As a fairly quiet and withdrawn guy, I used to get really nervous around girls, but I have no problem asking her if she wants to catch up, and she's very hot and popular, so I was surprised she'd take the time out to see me. From the way it sounds you're friends with them, and on a good basis, and they feel the same way, so yeah, it's absolutely fine to ask them. I'm sure they will say yes. We sometimes tend to overthink and get needlessly worried about stuff like this, but there really is no need to. Just to ahead and ask, really casual and friendly-like, and I'm sure they will say yes.