My (31M) friend (25F) is suddenly flirting with me and showing interest in me, but I think it’s only because she was rejected by someone else

I’ve known “Nicole” for about two years via married friends of mine (we are all part of a friend group of about 7-8 people that meet up pretty regularly). About six months ago, the married couple introduced to everybody their friend “Kyle” for what turned out to be the worst kept secret within the friend group: Setting him up with Nicole. Their plan to set-up Kyle worked … Only it was to somebody else and not Nicole (another friend of the married couple who I barely know). Kyle and his girlfriend became “official” about a month ago. Nicole was really into this guy and she took the news hard, even though to the best of my knowledge, Kyle never really showed much interest in her beyond just being friends.

Ever since Kyle has been off the market, Nicole has been suddenly showing a lot of interest in me, but I can’t help but think it’s either to make Kyle jealous, or that I’m her “Plan B”, or both. In the two years I’ve known her, she’s never been this way with me. She’s taken more of an interest in my life and her banter has been much more flirtatious. She sat on my lap and was playfully talking with me during a friend’s birthday party in which we were all drinking (if not for a timely intervention by a waiter with a question about the check, I think she would’ve tried to kiss me, and truth be told, I probably wouldn’t have resisted). She’s given me brief massages. She knows I like Baseball, so she invited me to a game this weekend for just the two of us (we have never really hung out alone before). I legitimately have a prior commitment so I basically said “maybe next time”, but I’m unsure more than anything where to go from here.

I’m not going to lie: I don’t necessarily mind this attention, and independent of Nicole’s recent interest in Kyle, I probably would pursue something here. I’m just not sure it’s on the level. Furthermore, Nicole is more entrenched in this friend group than I am, so if I did pursue something with her and it didn’t work out, things would get awkward and I probably would have to distance myself from everybody, and I like these particular group of friends.

Tl;dr: Female friend of mine is suddenly showing interest in me, but I’m unsure if it’s only because another guy she was interested in is off the market.

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