There was this super chill, quintessential cool girl I used to work with in my previous job. You know the kind who are really well spoken, well read, write blogs and stuff, do not have any airs about how pretty they really are, and are always fun to be around? Yeah, she was that kind. She was my junior and we used to work in the same team.
We had a very friendly relationship from the outset, but since we were both with different people at that point in our lives, we never really acknowledged the obvious mutual attraction we had for each other. It was only after I moved on to a new position in a different country that we started to really get close through texts and calls.
One drunken night over the weekend feeling particularly lonely in a new country, emboldened with the booze in my system I ended up telling her I have had vivid fantasies of her on many occasions and how much I was attracted to her.
One thing led to another, and yada yada yada...we ended up sexting that night. And on a few occasions after that. However, since we were both with different people, we decided to never take it any further. That was our escape from the reality we were in. (...or maybe it was the excuse we used to justify what we were doing.)
We didn't see each other irl other than a few video calls here and there, so we were pretty sure that nothing was gonna happen between us to change the equations we had with our respective partners. Things were pretty smooth and we were able to keep it simple for the next couple of years.