Even though Ryle has burned his hand on a hot casserole dish, Lily cannot help but laugh. During one of their first dates together at Lily’s apartment, Ryle hits Lily. Ryle finally agrees to test a relationship. Then, he sends her flowers or shows up unexpectedly at her apartment. He tells her that he does not want to make a commitment. In the present, Ryle gives Lily mixed messages about a relationship. Lily knew he was alive, but she has not heard from him since. It was that night that Andrew beat Atlas with a baseball bat. Atlas told Lily he was going to join the Marines and would look her up when he returned. Lily fell in love with Atlas and was heartbroken when he moved to Boston after an uncle there said Atlas could live with him. She let him sleep in her room when it was too cold for him to be outside. Lily helped Atlas by providing him with food and allowing him to take a shower in their house. He was homeless because his stepfather kicked him out of the house. Lily begins reading a series of journals she wrote as a teenager, focusing primarily on the ones she wrote during her relationship with Atlas Corrigan. Andrew told Lily that she had brought shame on the family by falling in love with a homeless man. He additionally put the first boy Lily loved in the hospital when he found the two of them in bed together.
Andrew was physically abusive to Lily’s mother, Jenny. She has just given what she believes to be the worst obituary ever because she could not think of one good thing to say about her father, Andrew.
Lily meets Ryle on the day of her father’s funeral. When Ryle finally admits that he cannot live without Lily, Lily never dreams that the relationship will turn abusive. Ryle is too focused on his career as a neurosurgeon to want a relationship, Lily refuses to be a one-night stand. In the romance novel It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, Ryle Kincaid and Lily Bloom are an unlikely couple from the beginning. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Hoover, Colleen, It Ends With Us.
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