Day 15 – Favorite male character

If you asked me months ago, I would've answered Mr. Darcy right away.

Matt from Twenty Boy Summer
You can read plot here.

(Warning: contains spoilers!)

Matt is Frankie's older brother and both are Anna's best friends and neighbors. Anna has always loved Matt but he doesn't know. Until her birthday, he kissed her with frost in her hair. They'd sneak out to the backyard when everyone's asleep and just talk, look up at the stars. Frankie doesn't know and Anna is scared that she might feel left out. Matt made her keep their secret and promises her that he would tell her. But then he suddenly dies because of a hole in his heart. And she finds herself thrown into Frankie's scheme of twenty boys in Zanzibar Bay where Matt used to write to her about every summer. She couldn't grieve for the boy who loved her because Frankie seems intent on running away from it. But she couldn't forget him when everything around her has traces of him.

I guess his early demise has drawn me to him, in a way. What would've Matt been like if he didn't die? Matt hangs out with her younger sister and is best friends with a girl. He likes to read, like Jack Kerouac's On The Road. He collects sea glass and makes necklaces and bracelets out of them. He loves the sea and writes postcards to her best friend about his summer. He's not the typical kind, alpha males. His soft side makes him more an amazing person. I wish he was real. I wish he lived long enough.

Sorry for the spoilers!
Who's your favorite male character? :)
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