Out of respect for her and my friend I will use fake names for them. But yeah I got myself a problem and I figure since people are willing to help out here, I could be serious for a moment and ask for advice.

So ever since I came to uni, I met these really two awesome people, this really smart girl "claire" and my now best friend "anthony". I really like this girl, but I didn't want to commit so soon for you know, obvious reasons...blah blah blah. We are all studying the same subject and this is where the problem is. Anthony is quite honestly much more talented than me, and he has a bit more of a popular reputation as well (he comes from a family that is kind of famous in the region). He has a bunch of girls who always try to chill with him which is cool but he doesn't care for any of them. The problem is that I am pretty sure Anthony also likes Claire and is going to ask her out pretty soon. I am also pretty sure she is going to say yes, :(

I would like to ask her out, but I must admit I am not exactly the smoothest around her. We have had a couple of large arguments about stupid ******** that doesn't really matter. So things are not exactly the best between us, she always seems to be interested back though when we don't fight. We have had a couple of cute moments together that I (being an idiot) didn't really capitalize on.

Will update this as it develops. Any advice though?