[tw: brief mention of school]
So there's this boy that I (Oliver) and a lot of my headmates have some form of attraction for. We don't want to date him just yet, both because we're a system and because he's a friend of one of our exes, but we do want to become close friends with him.
We're thinking about asking him to hang out after school next week, but I'm worried that it'll be weird if I ask him to hang out, even if I invite another friend along as a buffer. We've hung out twice in the last two weeks of August, and we've never even spoken before that. And I know that I'm probably making it sound like a bigger deal than it is but I just really don't want to come off as weird or obsessive.
So what do y'all think we should do? I know the logical answer is to just talk to him and be like 'hey I wanna be friends with you' but can y'all think of any more subtle alternatives?
-Oliver