Lydia Galanos considered her transfer to Tecumseh High School to be a major downgrade. Her previous school in California was much nicer, a fact that she will remind anyone within earshot of at any given time with little or no provocation. Her very presence in Washington State feels like slumming as far as she's concerned. She views the boys at her new school to be perverted thugs who have no concept of how to treat a lady, and to be fair she's not entirely wrong. Sex is something that comes very reluctantly to her, as she was raised with the mentality that it's something boys should have to work for. But she often caves to the peer pressure of her female friends who claim she has no idea how to loosen up and have fun. She's deigned to appoint two girls as friends since the move. One is Jane, as she seems to view Lydia as a project, determined to strip her of her stick-in-the-mud attitude. And the other is Bria, but their relationship is a bit more complicated.
When Lydia heard that Bria cheated on Warren, her reaction was harsh, perhaps overly so, towards her friend. But a big part of that, whether she wanted to admit it or not, was because she finds Warren to be one of the few boys in her new school who exhibits even a touch of class or manners. She was secretly thrilled he and Bria's relationship fell apart. Lydia is very confident in herself, and believes she can get any guy she wants if she sets herself to the task. But the fact that being with the only guy she desires would cause conflict with one of her close friends makes her question just how much control she really has in her social life.