Sorry to burst anon’s bubble but “we were friends but both had feelings for each other that we hid for years” almost never works out for more than a few months. You build up too perfect of an image of the person in your head and once it ends, you lose your friend too.

inb4 everyone replying about how it totally worked out for them

I don’t know, that sounds like a made up gotcha rule from a pessimist leaving a movie theater. It’s been repeated forever, but based on nothing but the word of people in miserable relationships.

Who gives a fuck if it works out or not. You’d be stupid not to at least try.

Most relationships don’t work out, regardless of how they were formed.