You’d slammed the door, exclaiming you would never make it with a woman, misinterpreting, yet again, my concern about you hanging out so much with that crowd. Well, you had practically moved in with that richie-rich gal pal of yours from Mayfair, so I figured you might as well officially move your things to her place. I remember warning you to stay away from the drugs that crowd you ran with was clearly doing, though.

Miller observed Bette wrap her toned arms around Tina, and kiss her fondly on the side of the neck, as the others turned around to look at the shiny, glamorous couple.

Miller could see the love in both their faces. Maybe Tina did grow a heart, in the end, and had matured into a level-headed woman. Because of Bette?

Miller studied the blonde’s glowing face, and smiled at the twinkly hazel eyes that she remembered from their time in London, and then saw with relief that the hard glint, that certain coldness around the edges of those eyes, and which could flash across her face, was gone. Nowhere to be found was the cold, calculating, let’s just call it what it is … bitch of her uni-years in London… whom Miller had met through mutual friends.

Miller’s persona at that time was to be Georgina Keller, a stock-broker with a flat a mile from Tower Bridge who needed a pretend-girlfriend to pretend to live with her. As luck would have it, when they’d met, Tina was looking for a place to stay, or, more specifically, a better place to stay (“at least an upgrade from the dump my scholarship allows me to live in”). She picked up on Miller’s attraction to her right away. And before Miller/Georgina realized what was going on, Tina had manipulated things nicely so that she’d led Miller/Georgina to believe that she’d asked Tina to pretend to live with her as a girlfriend.

In short order, Tina had moved into the spacious, three-bedroom, got-to-have-address, figuring out correctly that this woman, who was about 7 years older than her, wouldn’t try anything on her, because Miller/Georgina needed Tina to be her cover.

Ironically, soon after Tina moved out, Miller/Georgina met the woman she would eventually marry. Callie was a publishing exec with two kids who’d been devastated by her husband’s suicide. Her husband had left her a ton of debts, and Callie had just managed to pay off all of them, but barely had any savings left after.