Diluent (Harry Styles AU Fanfiction)

Diluent: Liquids used to thin down paint, such as turpentine or white spirit of oils and water for water-based paints. Or in this case, thinning down his opaque walls. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You knew him. I knew him. Whether or not it was that you simply knew of him, or personally. The boy who never failed to sit at the front of every class. The boy who never hurt a fly, and yet endured much more pain than he deserved. But something happened over the course of those two short months of summer before senior year. Something that might as well have altered his very core. Gone are the sweater vests and glasses, only to be replaced by tattoos and a bad ass glare.
Hidden behind those newly inked works of art is the real Harry, and I’m willing to see through them. I’m willing to be his diluent.