Loren Hale

**Loren "Lo" Hale** is the husband of Lily Calloway, their ship name is Lilo. A self-proclaimed villain but lover of comic book heroes; he's Lily's best friend in the Addicted series. Lo is a recovered alcoholic and billionaire CEO.

## Physical Appearance

Lo has light brown hair, short on either side, full on top. He has a decently toned body, cheekbones that cut like ice and eyes like liquid scotch. Lo is 6'2". It is stated that on an attractiveness scale, Lo ranges right between a lead singer from a rock band you'd like to fuck and a runaway model for Burberry and Calvin Klein. He has amber eyes and Irish skin. In Ricochet, after working out in Rehab, Lo has a six-pack.

## Personality

Lo is sarcastic and witty, and is a massive lover of comic books. Lo has a tendency to fight with his words, a trait he learnt from his verbally abusive father. Lo allows others to hurt him because he believes he deserves the pain. Lo grew up hating everyone and everything in the world, except Lily, but as he found his friends, they became a family to him.

Lo is referred to as the 'fifth Calloway sister' because he was always with the Calloways. His glares are the kind that make you feel like he's about to go get a chainsaw and murder your whole family. It's a sadistic, *I have nothing to lose*, type of look that his father taught him well.

## Early History

When Lo was seven, Jonathan took him into his office and pulled out a small silver handgun. Jonathan put it in Lo's palm, and asked Lo how it felt to hold it. Lo told him he was scared and Jonathan smacked him on the back of the head and said, "You're holding a fucking gun. The only people who should be scared are the ones on the other end of it."

When they were seven, Lily and Lo snuck into the indoor pool in Jonathan's house. They'd dare each other to jump in. Lo always ended up pushing Lily in, and she'd scream. One night they woke up the staff, and the butler ended up telling Jonathan that they'd been swimming. After Jonathan found out, he locked the pool.

Lily and Lo's fathers, Greg Calloway and Jonathan Hale, took them both to informal golf games. While their fathers discussed stock, ventures and product placements for their respective trademarked brands, Lily and Lo would play Star Wars with their golf clubs. One time, Lily accidently bruised Lo's ribs after swinging her light saber too haphazardly and too hard.

In ninth grade, Aaron invited Lily and Lo to his pre-season party at his house. Lo opened all of Wells' expensive booze, grabbed a lacrosse stick and ended up in the wine cellar. Lo took out all his frustration on two-hundred-year-old bottles that fractured and broke. The wine-cellar debacle started Lo and Aaron's rivalry. It started of with silly stuff, like slapping Lo's textbooks from his hands. But then three of them cornered Lo, about to grab onto his arms and legs and stuff him in a locker. Lo ran before they could touch him.

Over the next four years in school, they passively hated each other and sometimes the passively turned to fists. It wasn't until their senior year that it changed. Lily and Lo had started their fake relationship and Aaron realized that there was a way to reach Lo without him running away. Aaron started following Lily to class, then a week later, he blocked her against a wall, ever so casually, with his lacrosse player friends in tow. One day while Lily was driving home, Aaron tailed her with his lacrosse buddies. After Lily confessed to Lo everything Aaron had been doing to her, Lo called Aaron and threatened his college career if he didn't stop harassing Lily. With the Hale name, Lo had plenty of contacts and one phone call from him or his father, and Aaron's collegiate career would be over. Aaron called his bluff, so Lo called the college. Aaron was reduced to his safety school, losing out the lacrosse stardom.

When he was sixteen, Lo dated Julie Wells for two weeks.

All throughout prep school, guys harassed Lo, calling him *baby*. They even vandalized his gym locker by pouring Hale Co. rash powder on his clothes. Lo only had one friend throughout his adolescence, and without a male entourage, he became enemy number one for other guys. An outcast to be picked on.

In prep school, his father used to ground Lo as he stumbled home from a late night of drinking or when he found his raided and drained liquor cabinet. When Lo's grades started tanking, Jonathan threatened to ship Lo to a military academy for young boys, thinking the structure would be beneficial for a rowdy teenager. That summer, Lily and Lo made the fake dating deal. As soon as Lo told Jonathan that he started dating Lily, his slate wiped blank. Jonathan slapped him on the back, told Lo that Lily would be good for him, and if she wasn't then he would find a way to change his behavior.

Fizzle has company tours all the time, the ones where they show the history of the soda and then let you try all the imported flavors. When Lo and Lily were twelve, Greg left them in the museum area. Lily had an idea and said that the real factory was a street over. Lily told them her last name and said her father wanted her to take a mini-tour. When they went in, they darted in another direction. Lo took out his flask and dumped it into the syrup.

At high school parties, Lo would creep down to the cellar and would drink the vintage wines and imported scotches. It usually ended with the angered host dragging him out by the shirt.

In order to hide his addiction from his family, he started a fake relationship with his best friend, Lily, in his senior year of high school. When Lily and Lo decided on the same college, their parents proposed that they live together.

When they first arrived at Penn, Lily and Lo went to a freshman pyjama party. Lily found lo blacked out on the floor in the morning. Lo's cheek was covered in vomit and Lily thought that he had succumbed to his greatest flaw. All Lo can remember is waking up in the hospital. He had gotten his stomach pumped. After that they made a deal. They said that if it was going to work—Lo and Lily doing whatever they wanted—then Lo would have to know his limits and never exceed them.

A modeling agency scouted Lo once, wanting him for a Burberry campaign. They retracted the offer after seeing him drink straight from a nearly empty bottle of whisky.

In Addicted to You, it is revealed that Loren refuses to shell out money to any cab services after him and Lily were almost mugged in one.

Lo partied himself out his first two years of college and has recently stuck to bars.

Jonathan put Lo on a stringent allowance, tying up his bank account and pooling in money on a monthly basis. Jonathan supervises every transaction, calling Lo when there are any big purchases. If he overdraws, Jonathan will throw a fit.

At rehab, Lo pushed two recovering addicts to drink and break their short sobriety. The facility administration forbade him from going to group meetings.

## Appearances

### Addicted Series

#### Ricochet

* 2 years ago
* 3 years ago
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 12
* Chapter 14

### Calloway Sisters Series

#### Kiss the Sky

* Chapter 2
* Chapter 5
* Chapters 8-10
* Chapter 12
* Chapters 16-18
* Chapter 22
* Chapters 24-29
* Chapters 32-36
* Chapters 41-44
* Chapters 47-49
* Chapter 51

#### Hothouse Flower

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 4
* Chapter 6
* Chapters 10-11
* Chapters 21-22
* Chapter 24
* Chapters 26-27
* Chapters 31-32
* Chapters 36-39
* Chapter 45
* Chapters 48-52
* Chapter 54
* Chapters 57-58
* Chapter 60
* Chapters 62-63
* Chapter 66
* Chapters 68-70

#### Fuel the Fire

* Chapters 3-5
* Chapters 7-9
* Chapter 11
* Chapters 15-16
* Chapters 18-21
* Chapter 25
* Chapter 28
* Chapters 30-31
* Chapter 34
* Chapters 36-38
* Chapter 40
* Chapters 42-43
* Chapters 46-48
* Chapter 50
* Chapters 53-54
* Chapters 58-59
* Chapters 61-62
* Epilogue

#### Long Way Down

* Chapter 1
* Chapter 7
* Chapter 9
* Chapters 12-16
* Chapters 20-23
* Chapter 25
* Chapters 28-30
* Chapters 34-35
* Chapter 37
* Chapters 40-41
* Chapters 43-44
* Chapter 46
* Chapters 48-50
* Chapters 52-53
* Chapters 56-61
* Chapter 63
* Chapters 65-68
* Epilogue

### Like Us Series

#### Damaged Like Us

* Chapter 15-17
* Chapter 31-33
* Chapter 40-41

#### Lovers Like Us

* Prologue
* Chapter 5
* Chapter 27
* Chapter 43

#### Alphas Like Us

* Chapter 13
* Chapter 29
* Chapter 33
* Chapter 37
* Chapter 40

#### Sinful Like Us

* Chapter 41
* Chapter 49

#### Headstrong Like Us

* Chapter 2
* Chapter 6
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 16
* Chapter 18
* Chapter 28
* Chapter 33
* Chapter 35
* Chapter 39
* Chapter 40-42
* Chapter 44

#### Unlucky Like Us

* Chapter 1-2
* Chapter 5-7
* Chapter 10
* Chapter 19-20
* Chapter 25
* Chapter 36
* Chapter 48

## Birthday

* In Addicted to You, Lo turns 21. *(chapters 20-22)*.
* In Thrive, Lo is 21-24.
* In Kiss the Sky, Lo is 22.
* In Hothouse Flower, Lo turns 24. *(chapter 50)*.
* In Addicted After All, Lo turns 25. *(epilogue)*.
* In Long Way Down, Lo is 25-27. *(turns 27 in chapter 53)*.
* In Misfits Like Us, Lo turns 50. *(chapter 24)*.

## Voicemail

In Addicted for Now, this is his voicemail:

"Hey, it's Lo. Leave a message, and I *may* get around to calling you back. But really, you should just call me again. And if it's not important, then don't bother calling at all."

## Trivia

* Loren is a Scorpio.
* Loren is a Slytherin.
* According to personality-database.com, Loren is an ISTP.
* Loren is a better liar than Lily.
* Loren's favourite alcohol was bourbon and whisky.
* At University of Pennsylvania, Lo majored in Business. He was kicked out in his junior year.
* Lo was accepted to Princeton but choose Penn instead.
* Lo lost his virginity to Lily when he was fourteen.
* Lo avoids most fights and would be more apt to scream in your face, than throw a punch.
* Lily got Lo a necklace that almost looks like a beaded rosary, except instead of a cross there's an arrowhead at the end, for his 21st.
* When he was 12, him and Lily visited Ireland.
* Lo doesn't like DC.
* One of Lo's nannies used to drink strawberry margaritas and was sloshed by noon.
* Lo tasted whisky when he was eleven.
* Lo's Skype name is *Hellion616*
* Lo hates tattoos.
* In Kiss the Sky, it is revealed that Lo has snorted coke before.
* Lo had ten nannies.
* His favorite superhero growing up was Quicksilver.
* At Comic-Con 2012, Lo went as Cyclops circa 2010 comic book era.
* Halloween 2012, Lo dressed up as a pirate.
* Lo has saw Lily, Ryke, Connor, and Daisy naked. Lo only caught a small glimpse of Daisy when she was streaking at their house.
* Lo's twitter username is *lorenhellion*.
* For Halloween 2015, he dressed up as Slytherin.
* Lo spins his wedding ring when he craves alcohol.
* Cinnamon rolls is his favorite dessert.
* For Halloween 2017, Lo dressed up as Peter Pan.