Boyfriend Material

A seventeen-year-old boy falls for the perfect girl, beautiful, kind, completely out of his reach. So he does what any determined teenager would do: he studies her. He learns what she wants. He transforms himself into exactly that person.

The right cologne. The right words. The right moments.

She starts to notice him.

But here's the thing: he doesn't feel what he's supposed to feel. No butterflies. No racing heart. No love at all. Just cold, systematic observation and a notebook full of protocols for faking every emotion she expects.

Boyfriend Material is the unsettling confession of a boy who experiences relationships as engineering problems—and solves them with terrifying precision. It's a romance written from the void, where love is just behavior, and behavior can be learned, practiced, and perfected.

He knows exactly what he is.

The question is: will anyone else figure it out before it's too late?