Addicted to You

Lily finds it painfully awkward to bring Ryke over since she and Lo are used to just having each other. She tries to tell Ryke that Lo won’t want to help him, and Ryke admits that he isn’t writing a piece for a comic convention; he just needs a way to get to know Lo. He admits that his father has alcohol use disorder and that he wants to help Lo before his situation gets worse. Ryke asks Lily to keep up the lie for a while so that he can get closer to Lo, and Lily agrees but knows it will be difficult.

Lo is unimpressed and irritated to see Ryke at his door, and he doesn’t have any interest in teaching him about comics. Lily tries to break the ice by offering Ryke some basic information about the Marvel Universe and giving him some comics to read. Lo tries to tell Ryke not to come back, but Lily insists that he can return to give the comics back. During the conversation, Lo touches Lily inappropriately in an attempt to make Ryke uncomfortable, but Ryke is unflinching. Lily is embarrassed but can’t bring herself to tell Lo to stop. After Ryke leaves, Lily lies to Lo and tells him that Ryke is doing a project on children of major corporate moguls. She then gives Lo oral sex.

From Lily’s perspective, her relationship is at risk because neither she nor Lo is willing to give up their addictions to save it. Connor comes over to hang out, and Ryke texts Lily to say that he’s stopping by to talk to Lo. While Lily waits for Ryke to arrive, Rose shows up unannounced to check on Lily and insists that she come to the next lunch. She and Connor argue for a minute about the competition they were in, and then Connor asks Rose out on a date. Lo insults Rose and tries to tell Connor that it’s a terrible idea, but Lily is touched to see her sister being asked out. Rose is hesitant at first and thinks it’s a joke, but when Connor produces tickets to a Shakespeare play, she agrees to go.

Ryke arrives and asks Lo questions about his personal life. He asks Lo about how he met Lily and about their sex life, and he brings up Lo’s father. All the questions stress Lo out, so he gets up to grab a drink. Ryke realizes that he needs to tone things down when Lo starts to become rude, and Ryke then leaves. When Lily and Lo are left alone, Lily tries to apologize for making Lo feel awkward, but he isn’t receptive. The next morning, Lily and Lo have sex that is so rough it makes Lily sick. Afterward, she asks Lo if he wants to break up, and Lo says that he doesn’t but wonders if Lily does. Lily knows it would be easier just to separate again but can’t imagine going back to the way things were.

Lily is bringing Ryke, Connor, and Lo to Rose’s fashion show. She is nervous about her college life and her family life intertwining. She doesn’t want her family to know certain things about her and Lo’s lifestyle, and she has always preferred to keep these parts of her life separate. At the fashion show, Lily is only seated for a few moments before she gets the urge to have sex and goes with Lo to the bathroom. She and Lo make it back before the show, but Lily gets the urge again. Lo tries to tell her to wait and consider her sister, but Lily can’t control her compulsion and leaves for the family car. Lo follows her, and they have sex again.

Afterward, Lily sees people leaving and realizes that she missed the show. Her mind fills with dread at how disappointed her family, and especially Rose, must be. Lily finds her parents and Poppy, and Lily’s mother tells her that she should learn to control her hormones at family events. Lily can’t believe that her mother knows what she was doing, and she gets the same reaction from Connor. Lily goes to see Rose the next day to apologize, but Rose calls her selfish and implies that Lily will never change.

Rose and Connor start dating, and Lily tries to mend her relationship with Rose. Connor and Ryke come over one night to go to the club with Lo and Lily, and Connor asks Lily if she would consider working for Rose at her fashion company. Lily agrees to do so some time in the future but wonders how she is going to make a job like that work with her sex life. Lo gets a call from his father and leaves to take it. Ryke starts asking Lily about Lo’s father, Jonathan, and she confesses that Lo has a complicated relationship with him. He hates him sometimes and admires him other times; he grew up without his mother around, and Jonathan was always hard on him.

At the club, Lily and Lo dance together, and Lo admits that his father called to say that his mother doesn’t want him to call again. Lo’s father despises Lo’s mother and insults her openly, and Lo admits that he agrees with what his father says. Lily tries to empathize, but her mind drifts to sex, and she jokes about doing it in Connor’s limo. Throughout the evening, Ryke and Lo talk and find that they have a lot in common. After several drinks, however, Lo starts to become emotional and doesn’t want to talk about his parents anymore. Ryke tries to get Lily to help Lo stop drinking, but she knows that nothing will convince Lo to stop.

Lily goes to dance with Connor for a while, and a man comes up behind her and starts groping her. Lily thinks it’s just a fantasy and doesn’t do anything about it until Connor tells the man to back off. Later, Lily goes to the bathroom, and the same man follows her. She wants to have sex with him at first, but after they kiss, Lily thinks of Lo and doesn’t want to hurt him. She tells the guy to stop, but he forces himself on her. Suddenly, Connor and Ryke come into the bathroom and manage to fight the guy off. At home, Lily begs Connor and Ryke not to tell Lo what happened in the bathroom, but they insist that he needs to know. Connor also reveals that he told Rose, who is already on her way over.

Rose comes over, clearly upset and insisting that Lily needs to go to a doctor. Lily tries to assure Rose that she’s fine, but when it becomes clear that Lily and Lo lied to the family about their relationship, Lily realizes that she has no choice but to reveal the rest of the truth. Rose tells Lily that she loves her and is there for her no matter what, and Lily explains that she has been putting sex before everything else for years. Rose wants to understand and be supportive, but she honestly tells Lily that her and Lo’s situation is not okay and that pushing her family away was not a good solution. After the emotional conversation, Lily goes to bed, and Rose spends the night on the couch.

Lily is hiding in her room when Lo comes in to talk to her. He admits that he should have been there to protect Lily and calls himself an “alcoholic” for the first time. Lo explains that he has been drinking for so long and didn’t realize that his drinking hurt other people until last night. He announces his plans to try to detox from alcohol, but he doesn’t want to go to rehab unless it’s totally necessary. Connor pays for a nurse to take care of Lo at home. Lily tells herself that she needs to focus on Lo instead of herself.

Lo’s detox period is harrowing, but he gets through it and is a week sober. Lo and Lily meet Connor, Rose, and Ryke at a local diner for a pre-Thanksgiving meal, and Rose invites Ryke to the upcoming Christmas gala. While Lo goes to the bathroom, Rose asks Lily to move in with her, but Lily wants to stay by Lo’s side. Ryke announces that Lo plans to start limiting sex and pornography with Lily, and Lily is mortified that they discussed their sex life without her. Ryke also reminds Lily that she needs to work on her own addiction alongside Lo because they’ve always done everything together. The strategy seems to work to a degree, and Rose buys Lily a camera to help fill her time. Lily takes it to the track field one day and takes photos of Lo and Ryke as they race. She wonders if Lo’s new, healthier future is still going to have her in it.

Lo is agitated and moody on the day of the Christmas gala, as he plans to tell his father about his plans to become sober. Everyone arrives an hour early thanks to Connor’s promptness, and Lily and Lo slip away to have sex at the hotel. When they get up, Lily realizes that Lo has been drinking and feels like her desire for sex triggered it. They have sex again before heading back to the event. Lo finds his father and tells him that he wants to go to rehab and might not want to talk to him afterward, and Jonathan becomes angry and tells Lo that he doesn’t need professional help. Lo’s father even tries to blame Lily for Lo’s decision, but she wasn’t even aware that Lo was planning to leave for rehab. When Jonathan puts a hand on him, Ryke intervenes, and it becomes clear that Ryke knows Lo’s father somehow.

Lo calls Ryke out to the hallway and demands to know who he is, and Ryke admits that he’s Jonathan’s other son. He tells Lo that Lo is the product of their father’s affair with a minor, and Lo breaks upon hearing the words. He is shocked not to have known his mother’s identity or that he had a brother. Ryke spent years wrestling with the same truth, but he eventually decided that he wanted to know Lo. Ryke wanted to help Lo get better, and he made up reasons to get close to him. Lo cries and holds Lily for comfort, telling her that he doesn’t want her to sleep with anyone while he’s gone. Lily says that she plans to move in with Rose and transfer schools while also attending therapy. On the drive home, Lo tells Lily that he got kicked out of school for failing and skipping classes and that he has no immediate plans to return to college.

When Jonathan hears that Lo was kicked out of school, he cuts off his trust fund, but Lo chooses to continue with his original plan anyway. Lily feels hurt on Lo’s behalf and fears the changes that are ahead. She waits with her sister to say goodbye to Lo and thanks her for her support. Lily doesn’t even know which rehab center Lo is going to. Lo and Lily embrace one final time, and Lo asks Lily to wait for him before driving away.