question, what if you keep giving her friend IOI's and she takes it as you like her and then you get stuck with her friend while your target thinks you were disinterested in her because you kept negging her?

You've just touched upon one of the many great weaknesses of the Mystery Method: MM assumes that you have to neg and feign disinterest when, in reality, most of the time a girl will actually like you more if you express that you like her first, so long as you're coming from a non-needy, non-desperate place of abundance and non-attachment.

If you insist on working within the framework of the M3 model (though I hope you hop onto something better), focus more on playful push/pull in A2 rather than just negging the target and giving her friends IOIs, as you say.

Just be normal and give more attention to touching to the girl you like

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I was thinking another possible way, is to build a lot of rapport with her friends, essentially staying in comfort in the beginning of the interaction with her friends which puts you into friend zone with her friends. which is what you wanted anyway with them. I'm assuming, although that is not always the case. Sometimes her friends might be hot too and you wouldn't mind getting it on with them if you couldn't get your target.

I understand working the friends to build some social proof and create competition. If you think that it's going to get other girls to like you after the one you were interested in rejects you...it won't work. You won't look better with friends after a rejection.

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