My best friend

[michaelnero]

Hi guys. There is this girl I like who is my best friend. We went to school together and now we go to different high schools. I hang out with her heaps, we go to the movies every Friday night with friends, I go to the mall with her and I hang at her house all the time. She always has a boyfriend, which makes me extremely jealous, I'm always the third wheel with them. She's single now, and I like it when she is like this, she acts so different around me when we are by ourselves (in a good way). I stick up for her whenever there's a problem and I appreciate her so much.
I' feel as if she doesn't see how much I care about her. I don't know if I should ask her out, because what if it ruins our whole friendship? And I don't know if I should. Just sit back and stay friends, but I hate it when she gets a boyfriend who doesn't appreciate her as much as I do, who just ends up hurting her and I hate it when she is upset.
So please help me, anyone.

[Taryn98]

If.you don't ask her out you'll never know. People who are happy and successful in life have to be willing to take risks. If you try and it ruins your friendship at least you'll know in your heart that you tried and it wasn't meant to be. If she likes you then you'll be so happy.
It's better to try and fail than not to try and wonder what if.

[dontfiguremeout]

Dude I have the same exact problem as you do! Or I had. But yeah, she did change how she acted around me, and when she doesn't have one, she acts completely normal (to me.) I use to like her and well actually I told her, but she said not now. But it was too long then I never really felt for her anymore. But now we are just best friends! Umm my advice is to tell her that you like her. I mean if you two are close friends, with her knowing you do like her, and she's not ready at the moment, it really shouldn't interfere with your relationship! Now the only thing is you wanna make sure it doesn't ruin your friendship! Sometimes love is not worth breaking up a really good friendship! And I think that's mainly why I stopped falling for her because I really do enjoy our friendship and how close we are! It's really up to you to decide if you wanna tell her! Just remember what can happen if something does go wrong.

[JDubs]

Well, you can try doing somewhat of a set up to see how she feels. You can try something like texting basically the same thing to another friend, and leaving the message in the open so that she sees it, but play dumb and act like you dont know that she sees it. The idea is that she says something about it to you, but if not, at least she'll know how you feel without you having to awkwardly tell her. She'll just be "finding out"

[Ambrosia]

Dude, if you don't ask her out, I WILL! I'm kidding.

Tell her. You have nothing to lose! You're young, and telling her could help a lot. But then again, you might not want to ruin your friendship with her. Just let her know.