Right, here's the premise. I started at a new VI Form a month ago, after a terrible first year, for multiple reasons. I decided to retake, meaning that I'm basically the oldest in the year. About a week in, I get friendly with this girl. She's interesting, we share common interests, but also differ in several ways. She's quite vunerable and reclusive, and, while I'm quite restrained with my emotional ties at the moment due to being burned by a multitude of previous 'friends', I'm quite forthright. She's religious, I'm not, etc...
So here's the thing. Her best mate has this huge crush on her. He has done for years. Now while ordinarily, I'd say fuck it, he had his shot, we've also grown to be friends, and she is VERY loath to hurt him in any way that could resemble a rejection. She REALLY dislikes hurting people. I get smiles from her, and she talks to me quite a lot, but I'm not sure if she is viewing this as a friendship or an attraction. I've also got a backlog of about 1000 texts from her on my phone, but that has slowed considerably recently.
The girl dragged me into choir, is generally lovely, and apparently talks to me more than most, but I haven't done this in a while, and while rejection does not scare me, I really don't want the awkwardness associated with the 'no', because even if she rejects me, I'd like to remain friends.
Opinions? Have I left it too long? I was going to go for it next week (We basically have a one-to-one double session every Friday), but I've gone from confident to doubting.
So here's the thing. Her best mate has this huge crush on her. He has done for years. Now while ordinarily, I'd say fuck it, he had his shot, we've also grown to be friends, and she is VERY loath to hurt him in any way that could resemble a rejection. She REALLY dislikes hurting people. I get smiles from her, and she talks to me quite a lot, but I'm not sure if she is viewing this as a friendship or an attraction. I've also got a backlog of about 1000 texts from her on my phone, but that has slowed considerably recently.
The girl dragged me into choir, is generally lovely, and apparently talks to me more than most, but I haven't done this in a while, and while rejection does not scare me, I really don't want the awkwardness associated with the 'no', because even if she rejects me, I'd like to remain friends.
Opinions? Have I left it too long? I was going to go for it next week (We basically have a one-to-one double session every Friday), but I've gone from confident to doubting.