please help! i have a close guy friend that i think i like. a few months ago, i told one of my best friends i thought he was cute and she said "me too!" anyway, that pretty much means we both like him.

This is quite tough, because you might either risk losing your best friend or the guy you like. If she is really doing this on purpose then clearly she does not care about your friendship with her, so I suggest you sit down and talk to her and tell her that yes, even though we both like him, that you cherish the friendship as well and don't want to lose her. She might understand how you feel and stop making you feel awkward by her actions. Maybe she doesn't even know that you feel awkward and she might be doing this unaware of your feelings. Either way you have to talk to her and ask her clearly which matters to her the most, the guy or the friendship. Because guys come and go but friendship is forever. As a guy I might sound weird for saying this but I truly feel that a best friend is sacred and no guy should come in between the 2 of you...

hey, sorry its long, but i think i can help you. ive had EXACTLY the same experience as you, and ikr it is SO annoying >.< basically i went to this new school and i really liked this guy, and i got a best friend soon. it was obvious i liked him and he liked me so she did exact same thing to him as what youve described. she did everything she could to keep me and him apart, by pretending to be my friend and giving me the exact opposite advice. she was all over him and he didnt realise what was going on >.< so i know how you feel. but that was all a long time ago.

In your situation, this girl you are talking of really doesn't seem nice. i thought my 'best friend' was the perfect bff until she turned all two-faced and sneaky. i later realised she stopped being my best friend from the moment i told her i thought he was cute. she pretended to be all bff's with me and lovely dovely, and i think that is what you bff is doing to you. don't trust her 100%, as i can tell you from my own experiences she means business with this guy. you told her you liked him now she's all over him? watch her. do the same every now and then if you can. she hugs him? you hug him too. take every opportunity you can to be alone with him, as i can tell she is building up to asking him out, and guys normally say yes to the one who asked first. what shes doing is getting him to like her first so she will have a better chance when she asks him out- she may even be trying to get him to ask her.
think carefully about having 'that bff talk' with her- you dont want to give her any information she can use against you, because thats where i went wrong. if you do have a talk with her, insist you don't like him, but when youre with him act like you do. you need to let her think you're not too interested anymore, as i think the reason she has suddenly started being so frierndly with him is she's trying to win the race to his heart before you do, as she's suddenly realised youre competition. i know all of this because of my experiences.
do your homework- find out what he likes. get him a gift to do with the thing he likes, and give it to him when youre on your own.

ofcourse, you dont want to lose her friendship unless you have to, but i think you may have to. she doesn't sound like a good friend to me, and if you don't get him before she does you will lose them both. you may have already lost her.
she may lie to you and pretend she's not interested in him anymore because she favours your friendship just so you let your guard down, then at the last minute take him. i seriously see that happening.
anticipate what she will do, and do it before she does. i know it all may sound a bit bitchy, but this girl doesn't seem like a true friend, to me.

don't let happen to you what happened to me.
if you need some more advice about this, you can message me or comment below if you want, if ive not been specific enough or something

Good luck, go get your guy xx ;)Lottey x

I so know how you're feeling! And even worst, SHE knows how you're feeling. I advise you to stop this friendship, if she was a good friend, she would have stopped flirting with him.
But I think she's scared of you, if she didn't do all these before. And that guy can't like such a suffocating girl(i know guys, acting like you don't care that they exist makes them like you even more-strange creatures, huh?).
So you should talk with a real friend about this... and if you don't have any other, you can play a little game with your crush:
Tell him you like this guy(someone he doesn't know) and ask for advices. If he looks sad(even if only for a moment) he likes you! If he doesn't, don't worry! You can use what he tells you on him.
Friends do stuff like this, he won't realize your intentions :D