My best friend doesn’t want me to be friends with her homeboy
Basically, my best friend and I have been friends for about 6 or so years and recently (about 2 months ago) I started chatting to her homeboy (I will call him Z for now). My friend and Z basically talk exclusively online/video games. They have been friends for a lot longer than me and her and don’t really hang out in person all that much. Around 2 months ago, spontaneously he started to swipe up on some of my instagram stories (funny ones related to me and my friend) and I would respond back. We’ve been chatting like this for a good bit now and calling sometimes too to kill the time.
Within our text messages, we are normally just joking with each other and not being flirty at all. I treat him like anyone else and act in no special way, I assume he does the same for me.
I will say, I have gotten some flirty allegations for my personality - but I had always treated our conversations no different than I would treat other ones with my friends. I don’t censor myself and honestly just say what’s on my mind.
Anyways, we made plans to hang out Monday to go fishing and get some food which later got transformed into seeing a movie and grabbing food on Friday. This whole time, he drove us to the movie, paid for both movie tickets without asking me, and paid for my food. Mind you, I had already told him I was going to pay for my ticket and had my card out to pay for the food when he said “what are you doing?” And paid for me. Honestly - this really threw me off because if I was just chilling with a friend we would have split the costs differently and not had only one party pay for everything.
So I told my friend about the whole situation and I honestly thought he might’ve had a crush on me. Personally, although I’ve toyed with the idea - I would personally not like to date him. I told my friend that and thought that was that. I thought maybe she’d get a respond from him and just move on.
But yesterday me and her (and a few other friends) hung out and after she said that we had to talk. She basically told me that during the hang out I made a weird comment/set an odd mood when I said something about Z. Long story short, she told me that she wasn’t gonna force me to stop talking to him but said that she didn’t like how her two worlds collided and didn’t like that I was chatting to Z like that. She also told me she wasn’t jealous and didn’t want a relationship with him, but just didn’t want me talking to him. Again, she said the choice was mine to make (whether I should or shouldn’t continue talking to him). I don’t know, honestly I decided to just not talk to him anymore but I don’t know if I made the right choice. What should I do?