@sportomatic1,
Heh!
You are not the first, nor will you be the last, guy to cut a girl out from the pack and try to talk to her. After all, if you needed homework from her, or you were in lab together or whatever, her pals wouldn't need to hear any of that, either.
I think it's fine, and we're only talking maybe 2 minutes at most. If any of her pals get upset about that, then, well, they're kinda over the top, eh?
Not Susan, huh? Dang, my powers of ESP are goin'.