Is Katy Perry Secretly After Rob Pattinson?

Well, the inevitable has happened.

Rumors are flying that “Part of Me” singer and star Katy Perry and “Breaking Dawn” star Robert Pattinson may be more than just friends after all.

Or, at least, that’s what Perry’s angling for.

But where’s the evidence? Pattinson and Perry have been pals for five years and are known break-up buddies. Pattinson was there for Perry through her divorce from comedian Russell Brand, and gossip flew when Perry stepped in as a big pair of shoulders to cry on when Kristen Stewart gave Pattinson a very public runaround.

“They are close friends and can just be themselves when they are with each other,” says a source close to the couple. “… Katy has been urging Rob to go out and be silly and have fun."

Since Perry is just coming off yet another break-up, this time because she was just getting too close to heart-breaking John Mayer (although some reports suggest her partying had become a bit much for him, if you’d prefer to side with that argument) it seems a little sketchy that she’s trying to get her brightly-painted claws into the guy who seems to always step in when she needs a friend.

So nothing about the two hanging out together is exactly incriminating.

How about that additional wagging tongues mentioned the two shared a candle-lit dinner, and, get this, seemed very flirtatious.

Did you hear that world? Flirtatious. I rest my case. Or, OR, two friends had dinner together and laughed and chatted.

But don't despair, if you are on Team Katy! Isn’t that how the best romances start? Friends first, with maybe a little heartbreak and some innocent flirting to get the game started?

Regardless of whether the two are flirting passionately or balancing their checkbooks together, friends of Perry (there they are again, right on time!) insist that the singer would be a perfect match for the soulful “Cosmopolis” star, and is very different from his ex, Stewart.

Two big differences immediately come to mind...

“Katy would secretly love to land Rob, but she won’t admit it.”

Well there you have it, the future headline: Perry Lands Pattinson: This Century’s Great Love Story.