>Be socially inept guy >Room with an old friend for a while

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>Be socially inept guy
>Room with an old friend for a while
>The whole while we've lived together, her BF has been kind of an abusive jerk to her sometimes. Not quite domestic violence levels, but he frequently yells at her, berates her over stupid little shit, and insults her in front of pretty much everyone with no fucks given
>She's clearly bothered by a lot of it but she puts on a smile and bears it
>It's been going on for some years now, and she lets it slip to me that she gets really annoyed by it and sometimes wonders if they'd be better off as just friends
>Think nothing of it for a while and tries to give helpful advice
>The whole while I qq about being one of those guys who is told that they give good relationship advice but is still single
>A few days ago, we're venting to each other and she says cryptic shit about how she wants to 'follow her instincts, but she doesn't want to be a selfish and horrible person for doing so'
>Her BF the past few days has been getting worse about the yelling thing
>My mind immediately assumes the worse and creates this thought that she's dropping hints that she wants to leave him for someone else
>My body starts following suit, and now every time I see her or something that reminds me of her, my chest gets tight and my breaths shorten for a bit
>This stops happening if I'm doing something that keeps me from thinking about her and her situation

I'm starting to think that my subconscious is trying to tell me that I have a chance of picking this girl up, and while I would love to since I pretty much owe my life to her, at the same time I believe it'd be impossible for me to get with her even if she did happen to leave her current BF. How do I get over (what I can assume to be) this situation that I assume is me catching feelings for her? It's kind of hard to keep myself distracted long enough to not think about anything pertaining to her, and I'd rather not try to catch a date with the trashy girls in my area?