Slowly dipping my feet into the red pill so I'm no mathematical, sociological, biology fucker yet, but an interesting situation has developed in my life and I lack your science to go forth without consultation.

I have this friend, I'll call her Christine. Christine is interesting. She's shy, awkward, and full of pretentious morality. We've been friends for years, met through mutual friends, but distance has really kept us from ever interacting in person. A lot of our conversations would revolve around me telling her about my bizzaro sex-escapades and looking for a prude girls perspective on my romantic pursuits. We share a lot of humor together.

Over the last yearish, there has been a change in her life. Her boyfriend doesn't put out..ever really. It's a problem. In my opinion, things are going to end slowly and stupidly between her and her SO because neither of them have the balls to do anything. That said, there has been a change. She's all about Polyamory now and has had a girlfriend and dated a couple. Most of the time when we talk now, it's about how she's all unfulfilled because she wants lots of rad sex but it's all kept in a "you and I are just friends that won't frick" sort've frame (it's never said, but implied. I've never joked or asked about us fucking though) and I want to know how I can change that to a "we gonna frick" sort of frame.

Another change has happened. She's moved back to her home state (my state) a few months ago. We had a "aayyy, you're back home" sort've party a few weeks ago and she's desperate to hang out again. She's desperate for a lot of things: a job, friends, and sex and I'm currently a gate keeper to one of them (friends). She doesn't have many close by right now and most of the people she wants to hang out with (mostly my other female friends I brought to the party) don't seem too interested in hanging out with her per se but definitely would hangout with her through me again. So, she's constantly trying to hit me up to hang out but always in a "with x, y and z" sort've way. All in all, I'm busy as fuck between work and more local friends trying to hit me up for hangouts so I usually just placate her like "yeah, maybe sometime next month, idk." I didn't set up this economy, I'm just observing it now and I'm like, how do I make this into fuck?

The only obstacle is: I live roughly an hour away. If I go spend the weekend at her place, it's going to be with her awkward boyfriend at her no sex happening ever house parties.

The obvious answer would be to invite her down to my place. She has a car. She has time. Makes sense. What I'm trying to figure out is transforming myself from "My friend who has sex" to "My friend who I'm going to have sex with." At a base, I'm pretty sure she is sexually interested in me. If I were to suggest or try to sex her and fail, it really wouldn't change anything between us so I'm not too concerned about our friendship falling apart or w/e. The only trouble I have is I'm pretty sure if I just flat out asked her she'd say "No" almost reflexively.

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