Triangles suck

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So I've gotten caught in a weird triangle. I started hanging out with a friend of mine and this girl he knows. First day we meet, I'm just third wheeling it for a bit. After some time I start to talk with them more and more. As the day goes on she starts paying me more attention than she is to my friend. She even starts making comments to him like, why is he being so quiet. I pick up on that, and start to quiet down and give one word responses. She still keeps trying to get more out of me though. The 3 of us hang out a few more times and its the same thing again. Now, my friend has a hard crush on her, which she's told me she knows. She's also told me she isn't into him. My first thing is to try and get my friend to not be so blindly in love so when she lets him down it doesnt ruin him. The last thing that is bugging me is that I believe she has a thing for me. She's asked me if I have a girlfriend, which I don't, says things like oh see he get what I mean, and other shit. Now, I wouldn't mind dating her, I might even want to. But I feel like I can't as it would be disrespectful to my friend, who I highly value and has helped me through shit. So what do I do, the best route I can see is I suck it up and tell her nothing can happen between us. Only other thing I can think of is tell my friend she's into me and see what he thinks. What do you guys think?