Search Results: telling friends about a crush

Here's some backstory (I'm just going to call my BFF Blue and her cousin Red) So Blue and I have been friends for most of our lives and Red has always been apart of her life and I have questioned if I liked him before, but then decided no. Fast forward to a year ago Blue and I started getting really close and we are now BFF's. I ended up telling her that I HAD a crush on Red, but I didn't anymore and that was true... until I found out he liked me and all the feeling I had been trying to shove away were thrown to the surface. My BFF told me that he liked me and had been talking about how nervous he was around me to his mom. I recently told him on snap-chat that I like him and he told me he has liked me since August 2019! So I was freaking out AND of course Blue knows all of this we tell each other everything. I have been talking to him and he is really nice. I could possibly see myself dating him in the future when I'm old enough to date (18) but I don't want to do that to my BFF. She swears that it would be okay with her, but I know that if I theoretically dated Red and we didn't work out it that would put a strain on Blue and Red's relationship and I don't want to do that. So I guess I'm trying to get someone to confirm that I should NOT ever date Red because its not worth hurting my BFF in anyway.