Throwaway just in case

Me and my friend, we'll call her Natalie, have been friends for about 5 months now since we joined uni together, we're really close, we typically end up seeing each other over the weekends having breakfast or lunch together at the uni cafeteria and do end up going out into town, spending most of the day together or out for the night together when we can. We instantly hit it off when we first met, we have a lot in common, she's gourgeous  however due to the fact we do different courses we don't see each other as much during the week. Normally I would be fine with this however whenever I go a decent amount of time without seeing her I start missing her terribly, completely unlike any close friends I've had male or female.

Which is fairly awkward seeing as she's currently already in a relationship of going on two years now, I've never met him in person and understandably she doesn't speak too much about him so I don't know too much about their relationship so I'm not sure how serious they still are about each other. Noting this its probably likely that she sees me as just a close friend rather than someone she would go out with.

I'm just not sure what to do with these feelings, I've never really been this into a girl before and I'm unsure if this is normal between two close friends or if I really am developing feelings for her (which I'm inclined to think I am), it doesn't help that I'm not hugely confident at my best so opening up and making myself vunerable to rejection isn't something I'm any good at doing but I feel like that if I have a chance to go out with her I would take it. I just have no idea what the right thing to do is.
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I'm falling in love with my friend who's currently in a relationship of two years,
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Throwaway just in case

Me and my friend, we'll call her Natalie, have been friends for about 5 months now since we joined uni together, we're really close, we typically end up seeing each other over the weekends having breakfast or lunch together at the uni cafeteria and do end up going out into town, spending most of the day together or out for the night together when we can. We instantly hit it off when we first met, we have a lot in common, she's gourgeous  however due to the fact we do different courses we don't see each other as much during the week. Normally I would be fine with this however whenever I go a decent amount of time without seeing her I start missing her terribly, completely unlike any close friends I've had male or female.

Which is fairly awkward seeing as she's currently already in a relationship of going on two years now, I've never met him in person and understandably she doesn't speak too much about him so I don't know too much about their relationship so I'm not sure how serious they still are about each other. Noting this its probably likely that she sees me as just a close friend rather than someone she would go out with.

I'm just not sure what to do with these feelings, I've never really been this into a girl before and I'm unsure if this is normal between two close friends or if I really am developing feelings for her (which I'm inclined to think I am), it doesn't help that I'm not hugely confident at my best so opening up and making myself vunerable to rejection isn't something I'm any good at doing but I feel like that if I have a chance to go out with her I would take it. I just have no idea what the right thing to do is.
user
I've never been this into a girl before and I'm unsure if I really am
assistant