Lyra's highly regarded outsider's opinion turned out to be about boys. Specifically, there were decisions to be made about Savannah's lovelife and this had to be made as a group, because, as Ava put it "Van keeps fucking it up." ('I do,' Savannah lamented, 'I want Ricky back so bad.')
Lyra was definitely gone for more than a minute. But there was backstory Savannah's misery, and Ava had a bottle of champagne in an ice bucket, and besides Savannah was trying to toss up whether she should get back together with Ricky, or if she should take Xander up on his offer for rebound sex.
"No no no," Lyra said, holding up her second glass of champagne from where she sat crosslegged in the middle of the floor (there had been a lot of backstory.) She knew nothing at all about Xander except that he was Avery's brother, Avery didn't like him, and Avery was her ally. Thus, if she could stand in the way of Xander getting laid tonight, she would. "Not Xander. Not Ricky. You... be single. Take this tiara, of untoucha– ow fuck– help–" It took a couple of gently coaxing hands to pull the tiara from her hair, and then with great ceremony Lyra placed it on Savannah's head, where it looked annoyingly like it was made for her.
With Savannah promising to her sisters (and one outsider) to be single for one week, or 'whenever Ricky comes to his senses', whichever came first, the girls parted ways, but not before finishing the champagne and swapping clothes. When Lyra finally made her way downstairs to find Avery, she was wearing a pair of very tight white pants which did kind of rock with the lurid purple belt and her orange singlet, and she'd pulled her hair up on top of her head in a green scrunchie.
It took a hot minute (and another pass of the punch bowl) to find Avery, and she was starting to wonder if he'd left when she heard the clash of beer swords out the back, and joined a stream of other people as they flooded outside to watch a battle, and there he was. She broke into a relieved grin and jogged over, poking him in the naked skin at his side where the vest didn't quite cover. "You good?"