Lyra's mouth dropped open again, and she shook her head so hard her curls slapped at her face. "Your mom is not buying me clothes," she said firmly. "No fucking way. If I'm going, I'm going as me or not at all, and they can suck it."
The more he talked about it, the more she wanted to go, just to dig in her heels against something shitty. Just to not abandon Avery there for ten whole days. Just to see what these kind of people lived like, honestly, and to bring back horrified stories to Rosario. "I just want to be a menace busting in to seduce the senator's son," she added, with a devious smile, and she leaned forward to kiss the side of his throat. "Is that so bad?"
Seducing the Senator's son... honestly, kinda sounded like one of the books on the list Erato was going to send her, hah.