"My dad sent me to boarding school so I'd stop annoying my stepmother," Lydia offered so Nina would know what camp she belonged in. Not that Lydia had done anything annoying beyond existing. "But it's a lot better than I thought it'd be, so far."

Though, really, if it had been miserable, that might have even been better in Lydia's book. All the better to lie in bed and be hopelessly sad.