Dating : I’ll be honest it’s kind of a messed up mess.

Dating : I’ll be honest it’s kind of a messed up mess.

Disclaimer, I didn’t intend for a wall of text but I guess this warrants this. Thanks for taking the time to read though. I (18M) have worked at a certain place for a little over a year. When I started another girl started there too. She was a year younger than me but we hit it off as friends very well. However, at the time I had just gotten into a relationship and she had been in one for over a year. Both of us were very happy in those relationships so our relationship remained pretty solidly in co worker friends territory. Cut to a month ago and my relationship was turning sour very fast. Without going into it she was losing love for me and I was desperate to keep her. A week ago she dumped me. My coworker friend was one of the first people I told and she helped me through the first couple nights. She also had relationship problems that had been going on for awhile. I was her guy friend that she always talked to about her relationship maybe bc I was older but mostly bc I didn’t go to her school and I didn’t know any of her friends. Either way we’ve been talking a lot, so much so to the point where she mentioned how she texted me more than her bf. Today she texted me asking me to call her. She answered in tears and told me her bf dumped her. I’ve been consoling her all afternoon and well into tonight. I’ve been trying to get her through it best I can with the, unfortunate, experience I had. However I noticed something weird. She seemed to be craving caring and love from me in a weird friend way. Idk how to explain it but she acted very different. She was still distressed about what happened but she talked about how she needed to see me. I agreed to hang out with her tomorrow night. We have hung out only twice even though I’ve known her for over a year so I find it od that now she does. It’s kinda clear where this is going. Idk if I can handle this and idk if this is really what she wants either. I leave for college in a little over a month and she’s still in high school. In a so many ways I want to but I also feel very wrong about it. What should I do.

TL:DR- me and a platonic work friend both (like literally today for her and a week ago for me) just got out of a long term relationship and now she giving hints she wants to get together with me.