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The only thing I'll say about that (well, couple of things) is that I think something did happen between Bella and Jill. That scene in Ep 5 where they're in bed together feels like there's some real tension there, as though Bella was worried she might do something if she kept looking at Jill, and when Jill tries to reassure her that, "It's not going to happen again", it certainly sounds as though something may have happened before in a similar situation.
This and the potential of James cheating on Bella may also be what informs Jill's view that, "being in a relationship and seeing others" is "despicable". She's not only seen how such a thing can hurt a person but she may also have been part of that hurt (inadvertently) and she's beating herself up over it. I know a lot of people, pretty much everyone, assumes this line of Jill's means she'd never accept him sleeping around, let alone being with Bella whilst being with her, and maybe it's my inner writer making me think this, but I think it's entirely possible, when you look at it from a perspective of "anything can be written", that Jill might accept something like that if it proved more positive than negative. If her general perception is that sleeping around whilst in a relationship is bad because of what happened with Bella and James, being part of something like that where the outcome is more positive, i.e. both she and Bella are happier for being with the MC and she believes his actions were because of genuine affection for both of them, then maybe there's even a 1% chance she could accept such a thing.
