5 ways to hook up with your homegirl who has a boyfriend.

1. Be sleazy and make a move on her. Bold, direct. If you are lucky, you hook up, she feels guilty, breaks up with her BF. If you are unlucky, she is furious, ends your friendship. It will unlikely work, but even if she goes for it, she will resent you for getting her to cheat. She will break up with him, but she will not go out with you because you are sleazy.

2. Be conniving and the guy she goes to for advice. The downside is you have to listen to her talk about her BF. The upside is you can slant your advice to slowly turn her against him. It may or may not work, perhaps she will see through it and think you are conniving.

3. Be pathetic and patiently wait it out. Either the distance gets to them and they break up, or it does not, and they get married, live a happy life, with you always on the outside, looking in, quietly pining indefinitely. It has the advantage of not being unethical, but the disadvantage of being pathetic.

4. Be honest and tell her how you feel. It might ruin the friendship, but at least you stood up like a man and expressed your feelings. Ninety-nine percent honesty is the foundation of any relationship. But if honesty is not worth the risk of losing her as a friend, there is option 5...

5. Move on. There are plenty of fish in the sea.