i think a really underrated scene i haven’t seen enough people talk about was when sterling facetimed april after her fight with blair. april was really sweet about comforting her and didn’t panic even though she asked her not to tell blair. plus she took sterling’s ‘let’s come out’ spiral in stride or at least until her dad showed up at the door

I know! I was literally just reskimming through ep 9 and caught that again and even though she was so freaked out about anyone else knowing, AND that Blair reacting badly would just increase the chances she’d tell someone else, she saw Sterling was upset and just focused on reassuring her. Their short moments in ep 9 were pretty great, tbh, and you could really see, in their interactions with other people, that they were considering themselves a unit.