“I’m sorry I broke your heart, Kim.”–Whitley Gilbert

We all know in “Sister to Sister, Sister” that Whitley becomes this lovely power-freak who cares nothing about Whitley because she claims that, as a pledge, she never ate or slept (which explains why she’s so skinny in the fourth season–bad joke. Sorry.) But here’s the set-up with the heart.

When Whitley finds out she’s the laughing-stock of the Rhos, she goes to Kim’s dorm room, where she is gluing a heart, her “science project.” IMO, I think gluing a heart that is used to view the various interior parts of a heart is stupid. But anyway, this is Kim’s project.

Whitley calls Kim out, enters the room, demands that Kim fights her, yada yada. She takes the heart that Kim is gluing back together and intentionally breaks it, prompting Kim to grab her tailored-to-grab blouse. Whitley’s breaking of the heart is the culmination of what hell she’s put Kim through–making her knock down that door in the Pit, punishing her for not knowing the statutes of Alpha Delta Rho, making her write those statutes on index cards, knowing full well she worked in that parlor shown in “Risk Around the Dollar,” making her recook Whitley’s breakfast, forcing Janet Jackson to show her boob on SNL…sorry, the last one is a blatant lie.

All of this frustration makes Kim want to actually fight with Whitley. Of course, as it’s played out in the episode, Whitley intentionally avoids fighting with Kim because she cares about her sister…in that archtypical ADW sense.