IS he interested in her?

[nebulachic]

My b/f's best friend has been dating a woman for a long time. His friend has always felt jealous of my b/f and her and wondered if they were interested in each other. The couple has been on the verge of breaking up for the past few months. My b/f was constantly being contacted by both of them during this time trying to give both of them advice. One day at a party I asked his best friend how things were going. During the conversation he inidicated his fear of my b/f and his g/f. I was kind of shocked and got concerned and told my b/f about it later. He told me his friend has always been this way about other guys too and was just paranoid. My b/f ended up calling his best friend on it and cut of communication with both he and his g/f and said he was tired of being in the middle and it was now poisoning our relationship.

Recently my b/f's friend made a (what my b/f calls snide) comment to my b/f about how his g/f is probably going to be available soon and then in a phone call to me metnioned he wondered if my b/f was going to go after her if they broke up. This gave me a lot of concern again and I brought it up to my b/f again. He told me I have nothing to worry about she is just a really good friend and even if there was an interest he would never pursue it because of his friend. I asked him if he thinks she is interested in him "I don't think so" he said. My b/f talks to the woman on the phone quite often and she lives 5 minutes from him. He said he is trying to keep a low profile from his friend that he has any contact with her now.

I met her once briefly. I found out her # and decided to call her the other day. I told her who I was and that I had to ask her something and it was awkward and she immediately said: "Please don't tell me you're going to ask if I'm having an affair with ______ (my b/f). I'm doing everything in my power right now to get back together with ______ (my b/f's best friend)." I asked her if she could please reassure me. She kind of said something but then kind of retracted it and replaced it with: "Even if there were an attraction we would never pursue anything because of our love for ______(my b/f's best friend)." I asked her to please keep our conversation between the 2 of us and she agreed. I didn't tell my b/f I talked to her but brought her up this weekend. I asked him if his best friend and she did break up and his friend wasn't around anymore would he go after her. His said "I have no interested in her." 'INTERESTED'.... that's the word he used by 'accident'.

Somehow it really bothers me that both my b/f and her overriding answer in the end was they would never get involved out of their love for my b/f's best friend.