First off, I apologize if this is being posted in the wrong section of the forum. I hadn't seen a more specific area to post it.
About six months ago, I went on a date with this girl, but a few days later we mutually agreed to remain on a friends level because we were both looking for different things out of a relationship. We've managed to remain in friendly contact since then, mostly through text and Facebook--and mostly on her part since she's normally the one to make first contact most times--but we've only hung out maybe four times since then because there's some driving distance between us. We're not terribly close, and much of our friendship is based on pure fun talking and joking around.
A week ago I get a text from her one night, and she sends me a censored topless picture of herself (her nipples were blocked out with black bars or emoji faces or something) kind of out of the blue. We'd never had this kind of exchange before--we barely even flirt--so I was a little taken back, but I played it cool with my response, and had a normal brief covo afterwards. I brushed it off despite my sudden intrigue because she tells me that she posts things like this all the time to her Snapchat. I chalked the incident up to her being out of town for a the time, and she was just bored or feeling lonely, and wanted attention from me for some reason. Maybe it was a slow night on Snapchat. Idk.
The next morning, I dropped her a text just to say that it was nice to hear from her since it had been a little while, and joked about having how it was nice of her to send the about the pic. After some light joking banter, she jokes about herself being "worship worthy" and sends me the same picture from the night before, but this time uncensored so I could see all the goods. She tells me that if I had Snapchat I could see more of this, and I knock on her, "Why would I bother getting Snapchat when I know that I can just ask for them through text now?" The day goes on, and now she's sending me a few more pictures, and while I'm of course thoroughly enjoying it, I'm avoiding making dumb ass comments that would make me look like I'm fawning all over this. Enjoying the ride, I'm definitely impressed--she looks a LOT better naked than I had imagined--but definitively keeping cool, and the conversation takes a natural turn into one of or normal talks.
This pattern continues for another day following while she's out of town. Nudes being sent unprovoked and unasked for. At one point the conversation turns more sexual for the first time between us when she starts telling me about her over active sex drive, how she hasn't gotten laid in so many months, and it driving her crazy. She says that she's looking for a guy who can keep up with her. At this point I'm still not pursuing anything because I know her to be a very confident girl, so this new side of her sort of fits the rest of her confident personality. She's showing off what she's proud of visually and verbally now.
That is until one night I was out drinking with some friends, and she spontaneously sends me a few pics, and I turned full dumb ass. haha. None of these new pics were nudes at first, but one of them was her with a *very* seductive look on her face. I'm pretty drunk at this point in the night so I blurt out in text back, "You're driving me nuts". She replies with "Lol. Sorry". I ask her when she's coming home, and she replies with another topless pic along with "I'm flying home tomorrow. lol". In response to this new topless pic I say, "Ugh... You're a dick" and she replies with, "No, I need a dick. lol." The next morning I get one last topless pic as I'm waking up, and before she flies home.
Once she's home, I hear nothing for the rest of that day, and nothing for nearly two days afterwards. A rather sudden drop off. At this point it all feels like a weird dream, but it's on my mind, "Does she want to hook up...?'. I'm telling myself, no, she was just playing that game girls sometimes do for attention. Fair enough, no hard feelings--but now the idea of possibly hooking up with her is all I can think about because she looks SO good naked.
I mull it over for a day, and finally text her and initiate this brief talk:
ME: "Look, I've been thinking about you more than normal lately."
HER: "Oh?"
ME: "But not in the way that I should be."
HER: Ahhhhhh. Should I stop sending pics?"
ME: "It's probably a good idea."
HER: "Okay.

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I have to admit, that it's still on my mind days a later, but I feel like I blew my chance if there was even one there to begin with. What do you guys say?