Longpost is long.
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The other week I was visiting some friends in my home town. One of my female friends (who we will call A) was dropping hints all night that she either:
1) Wanted me to set her up
or
2) Wanted me
Now, 1 is a little strange for the following reasons:
A) Our schools are within driving distance of eachother, but I know all of three people that go to her school and all of them are grad students (she's a freshman).
B) Another female friend (who we will call B) in the room who is also single goes to the same place (they carpooled to drop by for the weekend), so would be much better at setting her up.
Option 1 is not strange for the following reason:
C) I'm damn fucking good at getting to the core of people and predicting what sort of interactions they will have (IE, if I knew a guy that would click with her really well I'd know it).
Option 2 is highly probable for the following reasons(E has more logic, thus is less meaningful):
D) That's what I picked up on and I have made it a good habit to get translations for girlspeak to the point where I pick up on nearly everything. I've also made it a habit of playing dumb until I make a decision (which I did to the best of my ability that night)
Reasoning:
D1) There were four of us in the room. The A and B talk pretty regularly, so she would have no reason to vent to her. The other girl in the room (who we will call C) couldn't do shit to help her because she lives in our home town. That leaves me as the intended audience and the cues were there.
D2) She was *much* friendlier with me earlier that evening than usual and seemed to constantly be coming back to chat with me even though there were like 4 of our mutual friends there that she and I hadn't seen in forever. Booby pillow during movie = comfy.
E) I'm the only male in our group that has *not* tried to get with her and gone all creepy. That makes me the unique one that treats her more like an individual than anyone else. Basically, I'm hard to get and thus appealing. This is conjecture. We've always gotten along though.
Now, here's where it gets interesting. Remember the C? I called her up the other day to see how my instincts were, but wanted to check fringe possiblities first. I asked her if A was hinting at me to set her up. Now, C is like my therapist. I talk with her very regularly. She said that was what happened, but her vocals indicated that she was withholding information and her initial "Umm" said "Well, it's a LOT more than that she was hinting at".
And to top it all off? B was actually hinting at wanting someone to set her up, but with the overtones of "but you people are the wrong ones to ask," so there is a solid comparison to give evidence that she was not in fact hinting to be set up and in fact at something else.
So, I've got a strong suspicion that A is into me and B needs setting up. Now, both A and B are objectively absolutely gorgeous and very smart (All four of us in that room exited high school with a shit ton of AP under our belts). However, I'm not all that into A (I have very unique tastes) and am concerned with what'll happen when it ends if the newly single (as of tuesday) Ubernoob hits it over winter break.
Basically I'm wondering how to make A and B happy without damaging any relationships. Now, when C told me that A was hinting at being set up I admitted to considering just playing dumb because I didn't know anyone to set her up with. There's also a fairly solid chance that C knows I picked up on the deception. This means that odds are that C will not tell A about me metagaming this until I act, but it is likely to come out after I try out more than friends with A and then shift that back to friends/ex.
What to do to make all my ladies happy... What to do...[/spoiler]
TL DR version:
I'm fairly confident one of my female friends is into me, but not sure if I should actually let on that I know it. Kind of wondering what to do without making things creepy.
