THeMaCHinE said:*ding-ding* thought so -- like it or not, you're relationship has already changed; now, you're trying to backtrack out of fear that it will progress to a negative state.
If you really want to get honest with yourself, you two have been flirting for awhile, even kissed -- and in the midst of your fears, you still wonder if it would be ok for her to (finger) bang you... The relationship is not what it was when you would just call her to go out for coffee and gossip about clothes or whatever...
I think you want to, but are afraid of the end result. But, if you'll admit the relationship has already changed, I think you'll see this line of thinking through to the end in that going further with your friend won't really change the outcome -- perhaps the degree of reaction, but not the outcome.
If you break this "thing" with her off, I think it'll end up being weird for you, and that weirdness will ultimately lead to distance. If you go the other way, who knows? But either way, it's no longer the friendship that you once had, it's something different...
Am I getting close here?
I think you are getting close. We don't live near each other now, but we do talk weekly on the phone, and things don't seem to have changed there. I really just don't want to lose my best friend over pleasure. We have been friends so long and she's the ONLY ones who knows everything about me.