Addicted to You

There’s no food in the apartment, and Lo lied to Lily about getting groceries. He says that he will order a pizza and tells Lily to go shower. Lily washes off the memory of the morning after sex; she loves having sex with men in the moment but hates waking up to reality the next day. Lily and Lo grew up together because their parents were friends, and Lily doesn’t see a future for Lo after college because of his drinking. After her shower, Lily walks around in a robe, and Lo pulls her onto his lap and puts his hand on her thigh. Lily can’t contain herself and puts Lo’s fingers inside of her, but Lily’s older sister, Rose, shows up unannounced. Rose comes across as hardened and cold, which Lo dislikes, and he is openly rude to her. Rose insists that Lily and Lo come to a family lunch the next day for their younger sister Daisy’s homecoming from Paris.

After Rose leaves, Lily goes to the bedroom to satisfy herself and then eats pizza with Lo. Lo already knows about Lily’s plans to go to a new club called The Blue Room and insists on going with her. Lily and Lo don’t discuss their addictions or how each of their problems affect the other person, and Lily isn’t sure what Lo’s intentions are.

Lily realized that she wasn’t like other kids when some boys came up to her in sixth grade and popped open cherry sodas, telling her they had “popped her cherry.” Lily’s father owns a huge soda company, and Lo’s father, Jonathan, owns a baby products company. Going away to college meant that Lily didn’t have to worry as much about people knowing her or her actions getting back to her parents.

At The Blue Room, Lily has sex with a man in the bathroom and then finds Lo at the bar. Lo looks agitated and rudely tells a girl who is hitting on him to go away. When the same man Lily just slept with approaches her at the bar, Lily is mortified because she never sleeps with the same man twice. He tries to talk to her and get her number, but because Lily struggles to tell men “no,” Lo steps in and tells him to go away. Lily thanks Lo, but she is embarrassed. She drives him home, and Lo drinks until he passes out.

The next morning, Lily finds her old phone in a purse and discovers a message from Rose indicating that Lo’s father will be at the lunch. Lily panics and goes into Lo’s bedroom to wake him up. He doesn’t respond, so Lily drags Lo into the shower and starts taking off his clothes. She worries about Lo dying in his sleep one night. As Lo slowly wakes up and remembers where he is, Lily helps him bathe, and then he dresses. When Lo hears that his father will be at the lunch, he suddenly becomes alert and heads out the door.

Lily and Lo are slightly late to the lunch, but both of their parents arrive much later. As they wait, they sit with Lily’s three sisters, Daisy (youngest), Rose (second eldest), and Poppy (eldest), along with Poppy’s husband, Sam, and their daughter, Maria. Daisy brings a book with her Paris fashion week photos, and Lily is shocked to see one of Daisy, who is 15, wearing nothing but a suit jacket and nude underwear. Lo disapproves and tries to tell Daisy that she’s too young for this type of photography, but Daisy insists that her mother encouraged it. When Lily’s parents and Lo’s father arrive, they talk amongst themselves at first, but then the discussion turns to Lily and Lo’s schooling. When Rose mentions that she thinks Lily is hiding something and saw her coming out of a pregnancy clinic a month ago, Lily is shocked that Rose would announce it in front of everyone. She becomes upset, and Lo takes her to the bathroom, where Poppy soon follows. Poppy tries to tell Lily that Rose is going through a difficult time in her life and that the family feels like Lily is forgetting them. She reminds Lily that she is always there for her; Lily sits on these words, unable to say more than thanks.

Lily sits in an economics class with Lo and thinks about how it would be nice to have a specific talent and direction in life. She takes notes for a while but soon gets bored. She decides to watch pornography on her laptop without sound. Lo asks Lily if she’s had sex with any of the students at the lecture, and she can see two that she has slept with. Lily feels ashamed and answers that she isn’t sure. She bugs Lo and tells him that he needs to “get laid,” and Lo returns the joke by telling Lily that she needs a drink. Lily’s finger slips on her keyboard, and she accidentally turns her laptop volume on, causing the whole class to fall silent. Lily’s laptop freezes, and she can’t turn the video off, so she slams it shut. Lily’s professor talks to her after class and tells her that she needs to start taking notes with a pen and paper instead.

Lily goes to a ballet with her sisters but thinks about having sex with the dancers the whole time. When she gets home, she sees a man in the elevator and fantasizes about him. Inside the apartment, Lily can hear Lo having sex with someone loudly and suddenly feels jealous. She checks her phone and is reminded that she is going dress shopping with her sisters the next day.