Ok but my favourite moment between them is the phone call when Sterling says she’s not coming to school. The whole exchange is just for freaking adorable.
It isssss. It’s so them, April is written so distinctively and she is just, like, aside from the Christian thing and the closeted thing, SO intense and extreme. Truly Paris Gellar if she’d been born in Atlanta. The way she jumps from not wanting to get sick to being afraid Sterling is a Slacker (and probably rethinking their relationship–she can be with a girl but not with…a bad student) and then thinking Sterling’s told Blair who reacted badly and just running away forever. What a kid! I love her.
But I especially love how Sterling just calmly responds to each escalation, knowing how to deal with April. It’s a representation of the best part of their dynamic, where April expresses concern in her own super intense way, Sterling understands where she’s coming from and reassures her, and goshhh, the whole prolonged goodbye. I can’t blame April for getting carried away, it was the sweetest thing ever. At that point, they both really thought this was going to carry well into the future and were settling in.
What did you think of that scene with April and Luke? (The one where he tells her he’s like halfway to being angry with Sterling) I don’t know why but that scene felt kinda awkward, I mean it’s so hard trying to read April during that scene because on the one hand I didn’t feel like she was jealous I just felt like she was just telling Luke to move on because she knew Sterling wasn’t into him anymore but it also felt like she was doing it because she Felt bad? I don’t know?
Oh, it was awkward but I think it was meant to be? Sterling’s previous and current love interests talking, except only one of them actually knows! And is freaked as HELL about the other even suspecting.
I’m not sure why those things have to be mutually exclusive, that she was telling Luke to move on because it was, well, true, and better for all three of them if he did, but also feeling bad–not at them breaking up, that happened before her, but I think at the subterfuge and listening to him talk to her as a friend about Sterling and his hopes of getting back with her while she’s secretly hoping for the opposite. I think that final “I get it” and then turning away in frustration was because, what can she really say that doesn’t seem two-faced and manipulative?
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.