Look, are there maybe other options that could be explored here. Sure. But there's more than one way to have a good time and a girl doesn't argue with fate when fate wants a girl to get on a mouth balloon with a boy that's made orange-peel smiles with her. No, a girl just takes what fate deals her and runs with it. Or climbs a ladder with it, in this particular case.

"What'll my parents say? A boy inviting me up to his -" Lydia pauses, stuck on a rung and letting her head dangle back to peer judgmentally upward. "Weirdly erotic hot air balloon alone?"