its ok to have friends that are girls and its easy to get out of the friend zone, just go out with her, compliment her, then go up to some other girl or group of girls and talk to them, give attention to other girls and ignore her. if you dont have the skill yet to go up to strange girls and pull them then go up to the hottest girl in the place who looks single and tell her that you want to make your friend jealous, will you be my fake GF for the night? that is also an ok opener, work it get them to play along. oldest trick in the book