>>6565643I was in the same situation as your friend back in high school. This girl was amazingly beautiful and I was crushing hard for her, but was too afraid to take that next step. I later found out she was getting close to one of my friends and decided to give up and move on. He did talk to me a little about it, but had no hard feelings against him and was even happy for him, since I believe that was his first gf in high school.
I will be lying if I said I wasn't was a little jealous of him, but never did I want to not remain friends, hell I cook for them the day before their prom, so I had no hard feeling against him.
If you want you can bring it up to your friend, but at the end of the day this is your life and you make the best of it. If you like the girl make that step, if you don't encourage your friend, but don't take the backseat because your afraid of what your friend may think. He's making the same mistakes that I did and he'll regret them when he gets older, so stop worrying about others and focus on your own. And besides, no friend is worth keeping if they get mad over this. I'm sure he had many opportunities to talk to her.