I (19F) don’t know what to do about me and my crush (19M)’s mutual friend
I recently became friends with a larger group of people including a guy (19M) who I have started to develop feelings for, we message constantly and he’s been over to my house to watch movies with me. Where I’m struggling is I believe a mutual friend of ours (19M) might have feeling for him too and has become very protective of him around me. For context, they have been friends for longer than I have known them but recently our mutual friend has overtly flirting with him or sitting between us when we try and talk. I invited my crush over tonight, and he’s asked if he should invite the guy, normally I would say yes but I was kind of hoping it would be just us two, how do I politely say no in a way that doesn’t damage my friendship with either of them, specially because I’m not %100 sure he has feeling back for me ?