So my mate got dumped hard. Really cut the kid up. Which means I have been sarging with him, playing second fiddle as you do.

We went out with the intention of meeting up with a girl he had plans with. We were both broke, and I drink too much, so we thought we'd try a dry night. We went to a popular haunt of his, as we had a lot of time to kill before the Target rocked up. It is a gamer bar where he finds it super easy to open.

I, finding it difficult to supress the villainous and horrible liar that is my inner voice, didn't open very many sets and those I did only served as basic experience in recognizing when a set has gone cold. Even after a mate I hadn't seen in ages showed up with some other friends didn't give me the confidence despite the boost to my social proof.

My mate was killing it. Opening and holding good conversations. No kino though, but he's working on that. How ever the bar shuts really early and we had to head out. We found a weird little pub/club and invited the target out. We were all introduced, but I was just getting that feeling that I wasn't wanted. So rather that hinder, I went and sat down for a bit and started send a couple of messages. This was when a HB6 approached me and started up a convo.

She was into me. I could tell a few minutes in. IOIs and kino on her end. She was a chatty girl which helped, and the way the place was set out it was easy to introduce new people to the equation. The thing is, i wasn't that interested so I barely kino'd at all. I did get some practice in, getting her to chase me, and showing that I was not going to be doing the chasing myself. My favorite example of this was when she was looking at her drink, and was making the "subtle" hint of needing a new one. To which I replied with "Haha, my only unbroken rule is to never buy a girl a drink". It worked with her trying to qualify by saying somthing about how she hates how women expect to get drinks and how it is really unfair to men.

I ended the night with her number, to prove to myself that there are such people that would actually do so. My mate ended the night reasonably sure that one of the girls that his target had brought was in fact her girlfriend.

Now here is my question Seddit. Is it moral for me to ring her and and ask her out, even though I have no intention of dating or even sleeping with her? Friend zone would actually be a rather good result here. And is it moral to practice on friends?