@ghostt even if she didnt hesitate and just rejected the blonde dude, the ML would have still died so nothing changes there, also, she wasn't dragging it out, she was already going out the the ML and was already catching feelings when the blonde friend decided to act, she just needed a bit more time to realize she was already in love with the dude and properly reject the blonde friend, the god chick saw that and thats why she warned her if it was okay to not convey her feelings.
Imma drop it here but honestly, the friend needs to fuck off, never doing shit until it was already late and instead of taking the L and just giving up he decided that he wanted to fuck it up, and it looks like hes trash in every timeline coz it looks like hes in love with the new gf and he still didnt act