Trying to figure out whether someone actually likes you is so stomach wrenching, especially with all these hints, I don't know if it's me or my friend that he's attracted to. & he still isn't out yet, but Lord has he made it clear as day now, I just want to know that he's actually attracted to me, the closeted bi, or my friend, the straight

Here's the breakdown sis; He's our good friend sis, but all me & my (STRAIGHT) friend know is that he likes one of his friends (I'll just say he doesn't have that many ). So we did investigating and my friend texted him about this situation he has with this girl & he was like "I just feel like if I told this person, it'd ruin our friendship & they'd be so shocked that they'd never talk to me again", & my friend insisted to get info, because we were all curious if he was certainly gay, & REMAINED using the pronouns her & she, & he replied "You get it, you're just missing one KEY element." So my friend played dumb & asked what, & he goes "If you dont get it by now, just forget about it". There's only one group of friends he actually hangs out with, & that's us, but there's a good 3 guys in the group, excluding him. Sis, this feels like I'm 12 years old chasing a crush figuring out if they like me or not, this is just asdfghjkl;'