Cherophobia [harry styles fanfiction]

The definition of Cherophobia:
Cherophobia

[kē′rō′fō′bē·ə]

the fear of happiness, joyfulness
or rejoicing. The origin of the word chero is
greek (meaning to rejoice; or happiness) and phobia is
Greek (meaning fear).

Obviously, Harry and Mae didn’t meet in a playground when
they were younger.

Obviously, they didn’t hit it off right away and become best
friends.

Obviously, Harry didn’t begin to astray in everything and
become more isolated.

And obviously, Mae didn’t love him more and more each day.

When childhood friends Harry and Mae grow older, they have
to deal with grown-ups problems, and it becomes easier to ignore Harry’s decent
into cherophobia. Will Mae ever be able to salvage the person that Harry used
to be, or will his depression create a permanent path of darkness for the both
of them?