head over heels with a guy when I thought I liked another guy.

OK so there's a bit of backstory so if you read this kudos.
The first guy, "C.", was a guy I met in college. I've known him like 6 months and he has a great personality and we have a lot of stuff in common.
However we started out our friendship as very far from the "boyfriendzone" with almost no physical contact or flirting, and he's not especially affectionate or comfortable with talking about feelings.
I started to like him but never told him because we pretty much plunged into being "bros" with me nowhere near the girlfriend zone and him nowhere near the boyfriend zone, and obviously I couldn't just suddenly change that establishment without awkwardness or ruining our friendship.
Also I'm not exactly what most people would consider to be a "normal" girl, I have a lot of quirks and C. isn't the kind of guy who dates someone who's not very "normal."
And I was never especially sexually attracted to him; he's not my type in that sense but I made exceptions for his personality.

Now I'm on break from college and I'm spending time away from C. Of course I've had time to analyze our relationship and doubts arose about things about him that I don't like or don't want in a man, and I started to wonder if our friendship is perfect the way it is - without feels.

Then, bam, just when I'm having doubts, a wild job appears! I'm using my free time to work in a packaging warehouse(not as bad as it sounds). It's a VERY informal workplace which suits me well. I don't like being places where I can't swear and jump over things. And that's where I met the other guy.

Enter "J." The other guy. His personality is different from C. but in all the best ways. He has many of the same likes/dislikes but there are key things that make him appeal to me a LOT more. Plus I'm sexually attracted to this guy.
Rather than starting out in a strictly friend-type zone, we started out being a little more flirty because his personality makes it much easier to be myself around him, whereas with C., who deems a lot of things "awkward" or "weird" I almost had to be less myself...
J. is very charming and sweet and he hugs me a lot, something C. never did. I like guys who hug. And remember my quirkiness? J. is quirky too and we readily accept eachother's quirks. I feel that we've become close much faster than C. and I did, and in a different way. I work all day with J. and we talk the whole time. I only got to see C. for a couple of hours out of the day and we were in class the whole time. I've fallen hard for J. Even my boss ships us. He basically has all the good things about C. without the not good things that I was letting slide.

But I feel kind of bad for falling for another guy so fast when I thought I liked C. so much. I don't know what to do. I've known C. for much longer and I've only known J. for a few weeks, but I know a lot about him because we spend so much time together and he's not afraid to ask random questions which start conversations.
Our silences are companionable and don't last long whereas my silences with C. become awkward fast and then we both part ways. It's much easier to connect with someone who doesn't consider so many things to be socially awkward/forbidden.

Ugh issues

My question is, why are you feeling guilty about C in the first place. You are friends, have always been friends, theres been absolutely no romance or flirting. This has been all the way around, he doesn't like you for a girlfriend, you don't want him for a boyfriend...there's almost really no reason for even much of a friendship for that matter due to the complete lack of chemistry.

However, there is chemistry with J. All the pieces fit together nicely, so there really isn't any need for advice other than my wondering what the problem is? It appears you feel guilt, dismiss that. You have nothing to feel guilty about. You're attracted to J, you're not attracted to C. Honestly, C probably isn't going to care that you're interested in J, since he has no interest in you in that way anyhow. If that's not true, and C is interested, he isn't the first guy on earth who "doesn't get the girl" because he is in the friendzone.

Don't worry about C. Just go with the flow with J and enjoy the chemistry. See where it leads.

Mostly I feel guilty because I really liked C for a while, except his personality was the only thing I fell in love with, and there were a few things about him that kept me from revealing my feelings. I was absolutely sure he was the only one I wanted and now I like another guy so much more. It doesn't help that I've never had a boyfriend or dated anybody so I'm a complete noob where this sh*t is concerned.

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