So I have a sort of predicament going on right now. There's this girl who plays on my soccer team that I met about a month ago, who my group of friends has quickly integrated into our little circle. I see her probably 2 or 3 times a week now and we all text each other in a group text. I'm definitely attracted to her but there's some complications.
My best friend is also on the team with us, and it became very aware to me right off the bat that he's also interested in her. Kinda shitty, but we're all adults here. I decided to ask him about it, just to gauge his interest, and seeing as he's kind of an emotionally cold person, he wouldn't really come right out and say it. When it came right down to it, he said "he didn't wan't to jeopardize the team and that if something happened, that we should let each other know."
I didn't really like the way he put it, essentially making it out to be a sort of game. We both promised not to fuck each other over in any way, and that's good, but it's still awkward. Now we still have two months left until the end of our season, and it would be very hard for me to ask her out and risk anything awkward happening between us and messing up the team. She's the only girl on our team and we need at least one.
Another wrinkle is the fact that someone else on our team has already tried making a move on her, although he was much more obvious, and shall we say, sexual about it. She shot him down immediately, but she definitely seemed slightly fazed by the whole thing. Of course, I'm not as overtly sexual about my intentions as he was, so I'm not really worried about creeping her out or anything.
I'm just not sure how to react here. I've got a girl who's recently joined our group of friends, and a best friend who is also interested. Everything seems to be peachy right now, but sadly I favor my friends odds better than mine and feel if I was going to do something it should be sooner rather than later, but don't want to mess up the team in any way which doesn't end until November. I also feel that if I do ask her to do something together alone, she'll figure out what I'm doing and my friend will most likely give me shit for it too. We have spent a lot of time together in the last few weeks, even talking for over 2 hours in a parking lot last night, but my friend was also there. I just want to make sure I tread carefully and not have everything come crashing down at once.
Not that I should've needed to, but I explained myself and she responded with sushi, so I'm not that interested anymore anyway 
