Help for my bf's very ultra shy friend needs your imput!!!!!!

ok, my bf has the shiest, oddest friend that I have ever met. The guy is 24, a virgin, and so shy he can barely talk. He's never had a gf, but the girl he was hoping would be his gf, stepped on his heart with stiletto shoes. He was heart broken and down trodden when I met him. Seeing how awesome I am with my bf, he sorta got a crush on me, which I have been dealing with, without my bf's knowladge (so as not to destroy the friendship) for the last 3 months.

Today he started hitting on a girl (the only girl) at his work. The girl is a very sweet little thing, although not very good looking, from what I have heard. I don't care if she's Medusa, as long as he stops wanting me. My only problem is, he and her are playing ps2, and she's giggling. Is this a good sign? do girls giggle for other reasons than flirtation? I giggle all the time, but I may not be a good example. How can I tell if she likes him like that? I want these two together, so that he'll leave me alone. Selfish I know, but what's a girl to do? Keep the PLUR all my PCers!

I think everybody gets their heart broken a few times before they finally connect with someone? I would start to disengage with your "friend" and hopefully he'll try to engage more with the girl to compensate? Just use "natural" excuses (if you need them) like you and bf are going somewhere/doing something but generally make yourself less available. I think it is very nice of you to care about him and his crush on you but you can't really live his life/"help" him with other girls or worry about his love life without jeoparding your own. He's got to learn to deal with any crushes he gets on "married"/unavailable women :-) as well as getting his heart broken and if he gets any sense of "bait and switch" on your part that might jeopardize his and your bf's friendship.