#merik x safiya for fucking life

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Merik, after trying to ask Safi out: I was completely flustered. I came off like an idiot. I mean, at one point, for no reason, I just took off my shoes and held them in my hand.

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Safi, No (a Witchlands fanfiction) - Chapter One

This chapter was written by @un-empressed

Summary:            

On a rare occasion, Safi knew the answer in geography class. But when Merik Nihar spoke over her, she wasn't so happy. So her and Leopold devised a revenge plan to get back at him, and accidentally got everyone involved.

Vivia Nihar doesn't really have many friends, apart from Vaness. She's mostly focused on her studies - and what's wrong with that? But then she meets theriverstix online.

Aeduan and Iseult didn't mean to get involved in the revenge plan, but it was inevitable. But that's okay. They had each other to talk to.

Also posted on Ao3

Tags: @Iseultdetmidenzi

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Safiya fon Hasstrel didn't know what she had done to deserve such maltreatment. Not only was geography a disaster that morning, her best friend wasn't listening. Or rather, she was until she realised what Safi was talking about. Apparently she was immature for wanting the basic right of speaking. It wasn't her fault that she had an insufferable classmate, and it certainly wasn't her fault that he decided he could speak over her.

It wasn't like she enjoyed geography, but she actually knew the answer. That was a once in a million years occurrence and Merik Nihar ruined it. She didn't even know his name before he so rudely interrupted her.

She wouldn't even have bothered to ask someone - asshole from third row worked just as well for a name - but she was confronted by another classmate after geography. A very pissed off one at that. Safi knew Vaness by name, because everyone knew Vaness. They'd never talked before, though, so Safi didn't know what to expect.

She was definitely surprised when Vaness verbally attacked her. Well, it wasn't an attack, but what she said was just a pretentious way to say "Go fuck yourself" and they both knew it. Apparently Safi's huffing and whispering to her friends that she was going to kill Merik over "an idiotic thing that doesn't even matter" was making it hard for Vaness to take notes. And apparently calling her a "poor dear" was "condescending" and "rude".

Why had she never talked to Vaness before? She knew now. Caden laughed to her face after having overheard the disastrous conversation. Safi found that absolutely unnecessary. At least Zander and Lev laughed at her behind her back. Well, she didn't know for sure that they did, but she hoped that Levs's so-called reassurance of "I've hidden many bodies before, nobody ever misses the ones like him" was a joke.

"Saf, I'm sure he didn't mean to inconvenience you," Iz said, trying to be reasonable. Safi liked that about her best friend; she wasn't as reckless as Safi herself, but she was definitely easy to drag along to stupid adventures.

"You don't know him."

Iseult rolled her eyes. "Neither do you."

"Irrelevant."

Iseult sighed. She was about to say something else, probably about how it was actually relevant, but Corlant came. Safi wasn't sure what his deal was, only that someone ought to push him off that table he liked standing on to feel better than everyone else. But no, the school encouraged free speech, and Corlant claimed whatever absurd shit he said (Safi didn't bother enough to listen) had something to do with his religion.

Safi didn't know who or what he worshipped, but she personally found lunches without him causing a scene holy. Maybe she should start a religion that specifically opposed him. Or maybe she should take Lev up on that hiding a body offer.

"This is ridiculous," Iseult muttered. Safi personally would have yelled it so he could hear, but she already did and he didn't seem to care. Asshole.

Safi didn't even notice Leopold approaching their table until he sat down. And, he wasn't alone. "Girls, this is Aeduan. Aeduan, Safi and Iseult".

The name didn't sound familiar at all, but Safi had talked to the guy once. Well, it was barely a conversation. She asked for a pencil, and he spent five minutes mocking her for not bringing two. Just when she was about to tell him to fuck off, he handed her the damn pencil. Safi made a point of using it only when she lost the pencil Caden had lent her.

She never even returned the pencil. Maybe that made her an asshole, but she needed something to write with for the rest of the day, and he never even asked for it. How was she supposed to know it wasn't meant to be a gift?

Aeduan uttered out an uninterested greeting, hesitantly sitting next to Iseult. They shared commiserating looks as Safi told Leopold about her encounter with the world's biggest asshole that morning.

"Look! There he is, talking to his friends. I bet they're just as rude and inconsiderate-"

"Saf, those two literally mean the same thing," Iseult said. There was a slight difference, but Safi wasn't about to say that. Leopold was willing to hear her complaints, and she wasn't about to waste the potential this conversation had.

"And besides, you're overreacting. That's Ryber Fortiza over there, and she's pretty nice. I'm willing to bet the others are too. You took this way too personally."

Safi had talked to Ryber Fortiza once or twice, and she knew that Iseult was right. She wasn't going to say that out loud, though. Judging by the look on Iseult's face, her best friend didn't care at all. She went back to her probably dry conversation with Leopold's friend.

"Way too personally? It is personal!" Leopold said. Safi was glad that at least someone knew she wasn't overreacting.

"Thank you!"

Iseult rolled her eyes. She did it so much around the two, Safi wouldn't be surprised if her eyes fell out one day. And she had yet to hear about what Vaness said, even though Safi knew Iseult would agree with most things said.

Suddenly, she remembered something that made her groan. Leopold raised his eyebrows. "I have geography again tomorrow."

Leopold grinned. "Why the disappointment? It's your chance to get revenge."

Safi quite liked how that sounded. Even more than that she liked the fact that Iseult obviously didn't approve of the idea, if her face was to be trusted. She could've been making faces at what Aeduan was telling her, but that didn't seem likely. Leopold's friend seemed to have the same opinion. All the more reasons to do it.

Besides, Safi already had a few suggestions for the revenge plan herself.

Safi smiled, making Iseult shake her head. "What did you have in mind?" [x]

"-And she kept staring at me the whole time, whispering something to her friends. I'm telling you, that girl is insane."

The story didn't get reactions Merik Nihar was hoping for from his friends. Ryber pretended she didn't even hear him, and Cam just rolled his eyes. Merik was pretty sure Tanzi wasn't even listening. That didn't hurt him, because she was Ryber's friend. Stix was asking if 'he was done yet' after every word. That didn't hurt either, because she was like that. At least Kullen was on his side.

He smiled, and Merik didn't know what to expect from his best friend. Kullen often heard what he wanted to hear instead of what was being said. "Maybe she likes you! And, you've never talked about this girl before. Why would you even look at her if you didn't like her?"

Kullen was not on his side.

"It wasn't like that!" Merik said, trying desperately to seem like he was telling the truth. Which he was, of course. Kullen just caught him completely unaware.

Stix grinned. "Oh really?" Merik knew she didn't share Kullen's delusion. She just took every single chance to make him uncomfortable.

Cam and Ryber looked at each other across the table, seemingly not surprised at all that the conversation was taking that turn. Tanzi was too busy copying Ryber's homework to listen.

"Really! The teacher called on her and I knew the answer, so I might have possibly answered instead of her. I wanted to see her reaction but she was just glaring at me and I'm pretty sure I heard her friend say something about hiding a body." Merik realised that the story in its entirety made him look the slightest bit bad, but being perceived as rude was better than Kullen getting ideas.

"Can we blame them, though?" Stix asked. She just raised her hands in mock surrender when Ryber shot her a look. "I'm just saying."

"You did speak over her," Cam reasoned.

Ryber sighed. "That really was rude. No one likes people who do that."

Merik was willing to admit that it wasn't his best moment, but it was really not that big of a deal. Sure, his classmate might be pissed for a while, but that wasn't his problem. His only problem was Kullen, who was grinning at him from across the table.

"You could still like her. Maybe you inconvenienced her just so she would talk to you - that seems like the kind of 'I'm bad at admitting my feelings' thing you would do and call flirting if it succeeded," Kullen said, making Stix laugh.

Well, now Merik was offended. He did nothing to deserve the unjust treatment. Even Ryber was against him, and she rarely cared enough to pick a side. Merik needed to start hanging out with Tanzi; She never listened to him, which meant she couldn't mock him for every single thing like the traitors he once called friends.

Besides, Vivia insulting him 24/7 was enough. He didn't need his friends and his sister to have anything in common. He wasn't sure anyone except Kullen even knew he had a sister. Good.

Vivia preferred solitude, but Merik knew that if Ryber found out, she'd make him ask her to join them. That would likely result in either of the three catastrophes he'd rather avoid:

1. Vivia thinks he's making fun of her for eating alone and yells at him.

2. Very awkward lunches because Vivia yelled at him when he didn't tell her what time it was fast enough.

3. Vivia finds out about Kullen's theory and tells the girl.

The last one might have been a bit of a far stretch if it was anyone else. Vivia, however, wanted nothing more than to ruin her brother's life. The amount of love was mutual.

And, she was definitely the kind of person capable of figuring out someone's name and all social media usernames just from a vague description. Merik dreaded of the day Kullen and Vivia talked alone, without him there to filter his best friend. That would be a disaster. For him, that is. For Vivia, it would be a way to accomplish her mission in life.

"Ryber, control your boyfriend," Merik said.

Ryber just rolled her eyes, which Merik found rather rude. It wasn't like he was the one terrorising Kullen, it was the other way around!

"Look, it's not Ry's fault you were stupid enough to mention it to Kullen of all people," Stix said. Merik didn't know if that was supposed to be an insult to him or to Kullen.

"Mention what? I'm not in love with some girl whose name I don't even know!"

Stix sighed. "You don't have to be for Kullen to think you are. You should know that by now. He only sees what he wants to see." Cam nodded in agreement. 

"Look, are you on my side or are you not?"

"I'm not necessarily on your side, I'm just not on Merik's." Kullen nodded, as if that was a completely reasonable answer.

Merik blamed his trust issues on his friend group, which consisted of Kullen, Cam, Stix, Ryber and occasionally Tanzi. All people who tolerated him but didn't dread to tell him when he did or said something stupid. Except Stix, but Merik doubted that she actually hated him. Either way, she, too, was never going to meet Vivia if Merik was to ask. He usually wasn't when it came to his sister and what she did, but he had to hope that Vivia wouldn't want to do anything with a friend of his.

"That's ridiculous. You hate me for no reason."

"Ridiculous? That's it, you've lost your Stix privileges. It's Stacia for you from now on." Merik fought the urge to tell her that what she just said was ridiculous as well. People lost their 'Stix privileges' at least three times a day.

Ryber rolled her eyes, silently listening to the exchange. She occasionally whispered something to Tanzi, who was still doing her homework.

"Thank you very much for doing as I said and controlling your boyfriend," Merik said. He was getting fed up of everyone being against him for a simple mistake.

"You're welcome," Ryber said, turning to help Tanzi read something. Even Ryber, who was usually the responsible one, was seemingly tired of him. Merik was starting to think he had done something wrong.

Kullen probably noticed that Merik wasn't fighting back, because he sighed and said: "Look, Merik, we're only making fun of you because you don't see that what you did was wrong. Just... Try to be nicer to the geography classmate."

It seemed nice enough, and, even though Merik hated to admit it, it was good advice. But Kullen wasn't done. "And then, when you're a couple, Stix and I will pretend we're your siblings and tell her made-up, embarrassing information."

Ryber took one look at the three of them and sighed. "That might not work."

"Cousins, then."

Ryber rolled her eyes. "That still won't work. Just say you're his friends."

"But no one ever takes the friends seriously!" Stix whined.

"No one should take the two of you seriously."

"Bold of you to assume they won't make all of us do it," Cam said.

"See? Cam gets it!"

Sometimes Merik really hated his friends.

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Read Chapter Two here

#the witchlands #the witchlands fanfiction #modern au #truthwitch #windwitch #sightwitch #bloodwitch #susan dennard #iseult det midenzi #aeduan #merik nihar #vivia nihar #stacia sotar #stix #cam #ryber fortiza #safiya fon hasstrel #kullen ikray #vaness #tanzi #leopold fon cartorra #leopold fon airport #caden #lev #zander #safi no #safi no chapter one

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safi: listen, iseult, when was the last time anything went according to the plan?

iseult: i do not think there was a last time.

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merik: did you just refer to a knife as a people opener?

safi: ...should i not have?

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merik: ugh, my lips hurt

safi: *kisses merik’s chapped lips* there, i made it better

merik: *shooketh and can’t speak*

aeduan: *sees safik* iseult my lips hurt!

iseult: *stomps on his foot*

aeduan: ouch!

iseult: well now you’re not thinking about your hurt lips!

#bloodwitch #mine #sightwitch #truthwitch #books #susan dennard #windwitch #witchlands #merik #saifya #safik #saifya x merik #merik x safiya #merik x safiya for fucking life #iseult x aeduan #iseult #aeduan x iseult #baesult

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currently 4:17 am where i’m living and i’m imagining the billion different ways safik will finally see each other and realize “holy hell they are alive” and that reuniting scene is gonna shatter me. legit be prepared for me to explode here when they see each other bc yall know it’s gonna happen.

another note: i! so! want! the! boytalk! like i can’t wait for safiya to just listen to iseult talk about aeduan and catch them havin moments and her just smirking and looking at iseult like...

i’m headcanoning that safiya and merik would be baesult trash #1 and honeslty i’m so here for it

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if you’re wondering what this idea is, here is a short summary/sneak peek:) also idk what to name this please help. expect to see chapters of this posted around 2 days from now (mostly bc it takes me some time to write).

Merik Nihar had always imagined that meeting the love of his life would bring peace to his life. Maybe he would see her spinning and twirling at one of many extravagant balls his family holds, looking like an ethereal being. Or maybe, he would bump into her at the coffee shop he basically lives in. Never would he have imagined that he would fall in love with the golden haired girl who came crashing through his window at 2 am, covered in shards of glass, still looking gorgeous and wreaking havoc in his carefully set out life. 

Safiya Von Hustrel never planned to break into the handsome arrogant boy’s apartment. But then again, she never planned to run away from her uncle’s house, let alone letting people know about her power. She definitely did not plan to meet the guy dressed in blue stripped pajamas and swinging a lamp wildly, in an attempt to defend himself. And she most definitely did not plan to find him so goddamn attractive.

The characters belong to susan dennard, i’m just creating some fanfiction.

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merik: babe, that’s so sweet you got us a dozen donuts!

safi: bold of you to assume that i was planning to share.

merik: *blankly stares*

safi:... there’s another dozen in the car

merik: is this what love feels like?

#mine #bloodwitch #sightwitch #truthwitch #susan dennard #windwitch #witchlands #books #merik #safiya #safik #merik nihar #safiya fon hasstrel #safiy x merik #merik x safiya for fucking life #merik x safiya #i love them #truthwind #me in a relationship #incorrect witchlands quotes

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truthwitch reread

okie dokie! i’ve just gotten my paperback edition of truthwitch and i’ve justr started annotating so be prepared for a constant comentary of when someone does something badass

also you can find this whole thread in my page under #niki reads truthwitch or #truthwitch rereads

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Safi, No (a Witchlands Fanfiction) - Chapter Sixteen

Written with @un-empressed, who wrote both POV’s for this chapter.

Read the other chapters here: Chapter One | Chapter Two | Chapter Three | Chapter Four | Chapter Five | Chapter Six | Chapter Seven | Chapter Eight | Chapter Nine | Chapter Ten | Chapter Eleven | Chapter Twelve | Chapter Thirteen | Chapter Fourteen | Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Summary:

Aeduan finally learns about Leopold and Safi setting him and Iseult up. Merik wants to be a better person, and doesn't know how.

Also on Ao3!

Now that their - no, Safi's, for he definitely didn't think about it as something, anything, other than a burden - revenge plot was over, Aeduean doubted he'd hear from the crazy people again. It was almost sad.

But then Leopold called him and the possibility was no longer anything but heavenly.

Aeduan sighed. "Let me guess, someone bumped into Safi and didn't say sorry?"

It was a stupid thing to say. Everyone knew Safi would've started another revenge plan even if the person apologised. He could just hear her voice in his head, talking about how it was "obviously sarcastic" or whatever other shit she thought could excuse wanting to ruin someone's life.

"No. Maybe. Not that I know of. She told you that?" Leopold asked. Aeduan rolled his eyes. It didn't even seem all that unrealistic knowing Safi. He wondered for probably the thousandth time how (and why) Iseult endured her best friend's crazy, borderline obsessive ramblings. It must have been some kind of superpower, or at least an admirable amount of skill.

"What were you going to say, Leopold? And make it quick, I have places to be." Aeduan did not, and even if he did, Leopold wouldn't care.

"Oh, yeah! How was your date with Iseult the other day?"

"What?"

"She refused to give us any details and said some things that were rather hurtful, if you ask me."

Oh, how Aeduan was going to murder Leopold one day. It would be a sweet, sweet revenge for all of the suffering that the idiot put him through.

"I don't know what Iseult said to you - or, well, about you - but I agree. It wasn't a date, you assholes abandoned us in that ice cream shop," Aeduan said. He hoped his lack of amusement carried well through his voice.

"Yeah, so you could have a date! Don't you get it now?"

Aeduan was going to murder both Leopold and Safi when he saw them. A date? Seriously? They were both nightmares, and Aeduan was determined to wake up.

"You're an asshole," Aeduan said instead of goodbye. It seemed more fitting, although every bye said to Leopold was a good bye. The best bye. The most fulfilling bye.

Aeduan didn't know what to do with this new information. Was it an actual date? What did Iseult think about it? Did he even want it to be a date? No. He didn't. Of course he didn't. That was ridiculous. Iseult was just a friend. Barely even a friend, he didn't know anything about her! Well, except her favourite book, but she talked about it a lot. And that she liked strawberry ice cream. And her dog's name. And he knew how she met Safi, but that was really only said because Aeduan was intrigued. Not by Iseult. Never by Iseult. He was just intrigued by their differences, and how they could be such good friends beside them. Aeduan couldn't even make friends with people painfully similar to him.

He was still stuck in a childhood rivalry with one of his neighbours. They were both too stubborn to admit the other had good qualities, and yet before the whole revenge plot thing, she was the closest thing to a friend Aeduan had ever had. It was confusing, but Aeduan didn't like to dwell on it too much. He didn't think about Lizl unless he absolutely had to, and he didn't think about her as anything other than a bother.

She used to be the most annoying, pretentious person Aeduan knew, but that changed as soon as he met Leopold. Not that he was going to tell Lizl that. She would probably try to somehow become even more of a jerk to him, simply because she couldn't stand not being number one, even if it was in annoying a person.

Aeduan had a feeling even Lizl would admit Leopold was annoying, and she usually became best friends with all the people Aeduan found even slightly unlikeable, ruining them and their whole family in his eyes by doing that. Perhaps she thought she was doing them a favour.

Lizl would have told Leopold to fuck off, and Aeduan now wished he had done just that. He hoped Iseult did. Iseult. He should message her. Why didn't she tell him they were being set up, if she knew?

No matter how Aeduan started the message, he kept erasing it. He finally decided to call her. It would be much simpler, right? That way he wouldn't have the time to be nervous. No, not nervous. He wasn't nervous. There was no reason to be. It was just Iseult. They talked before, in an exclusively platonical way.

Iseult picked up right away. "Hey!"

"Leopold told me we were apparently on a date," Aeduan said, skipping the greetings.

"Wait, you didn't know?" Iseult asked. She sounded less like she was making fun of him and more like she was actually shocked, "I mean, not that I thought it was a date, but you should've known that was what they considered it."

It did seem reasonable that Leopold and Safi would overreact like that, but Aeduan found that there was something slightly dishonest in Iseult's voice.

"Yeah, you're right. They're both assholes."

"Calling Safi an asshole is my job. She is one, but no one else is allowed to say it." Aeduan smiled at that, and then he did his best to stop it. To wear a neutral facial expression. He ddidn't even know why he smiled. There was just something about the usually reasonable Iseult being hypocritical from time to time. Or rather there was just something about Iseult. They were friends, and Aeduan...appreciated her. In a completely platonic, friendly, meant to disappoint Safi and Leopold way.

"Am I allowed to call her an idiot? Just this one time?".

Aeduan didn't know why he was asking for permission. He didn't need it. He didn't need Iseult to allow him to do anything. And yet it didn't seem so bad when she laughed.

"This one time."

[x]

Merik was never less glad to find out that he was right. Usually he hated being wrong, and denied it if he was, but this time he wished he was overreacting when he said that there was a plot against him. Kullen and Ryber didn't tell him where they were going at first. Maybe it would've been better if they had.

If they told him, he wouldn't've been sitting in front of Safi, confused and only slightly enraged. She showed him her phone, filled with half assed apologies sent in a group full of people he never met. Well, most of them anyway. Merik would never admit it, but he was kind of hurt to see Vivia's name in the group chat. They were making progress, and yet...Merik really had to fix himself. If so many people thought him self absorbed, it had to be the truth.

He used to believe it just meant it was him against the world, and he wasn't a big fan of letting the majority decide what a person was like, but if Kullen and Ryber agreed too, it had to mean something.

Kullen made Safi give Merik her phone number, which Merik didn't know what to do with. But his thoughts were too much all at once, and he needed to face them. Not alone, though. He couldn't do it alone. And he couldn't do it with Kullen, or any of his friends either. He didn't need someone to comfort him, he needed someone to show him what to fix. And so Merik found himself texting Safiya fon Hasstrel, self proclaimed master of bribery and corruption, whatever that was. Oh my God I really am an asshole. The reply came quickly. Duh.

Not helping. What makes me an asshole?

Merik could imagine her rolling her eyes as she read the message. Idk, I'm not your therapist.

Merik found her answer strangely comforting, mainly because everyone else did pretend to be his therapist. But you owe me since you made a revenge plot against me.

Fucking ask literally anybody else, I think Kullen will kill me if I give you the whole list.

Kullen wouldn't. Would he? He might possibly. Safi did say he stormed into her best friend's house mad as hell. Merik never saw Kullen mad, but it must have been at least slightly terrifying. He was taller than anyone Merik had ever met and that could be scary at times.

If we meet up in person I'll have no evidence.

Merik didn't spend a lot of time talking to Safi during the day she apologised. Kullen later told him how he found out, and how he had to literally convince Safi's friend to tell her to apologise. She probably didn't even want to be there, and she had tried to get out of apologising by insisting that they were both assholes and that this was "a lesson learned" for both of them.

That's why Merik was surprised when she accepted, telling him to meet her at the ice cream place. Okay then.

He told Vivia where he was going. She shot him an apologetic look. They hadn't really talked about the revenge plan, or her involvement in it. Merik didn't want to know why Safi put the special emphasis on it when he noted that Vivia was in the group chat. He didn't want to know.

Was it him being an asshole again? He couldn't tell. That was exactly why he needed to talk with the one person who would bluntly tell him all of it. Sure, he could have asked either Vivia or Stix to do it, but he didn't want to jeopardise the progress he'd made with either of them.

He didn't want to be friends with Safi. He just wanted to understand why she didn't want to be friends with him. Why she made up a whole plot against him.

And it seemed that she loved explaining it to him. As soon as Merik got to the ice cream place, Safi started talking about it being "the place where all her genius plans to spite him were born". Merik didn't appreciate too much, but he knew he needed to hear it.

He didn't want to add onto the ever growing pile of evidence that he was way worse than he thought, but he just had to ask about the jackets bearing the bizarre motto of the group.

Safi was more than glad to explain that bribery and corruption was her method of "gaining allies". Merik snorted at that.

"Don't look at me like that, it worked on Vaness and your sister just fine!"

Merik was wondering how she got Vaness to help her, but what he didn't understand was why Vivia had to be "bribed and corrupted" into it. The revenge plot seemed like something she would get involved in without a second thought.

Did Vivia not hate him as much as he thought? It would stay a mystery, because Merik was going to deny this conversation ever took place.

"Maybe, but they know me and are greatly annoyed by me for whatever reason." Safi rolled her eyes, even despite the small smile on her face. "I mean, if I was just a stranger to them, they would never. Well, maybe Vaness. She likes to make people feel irrelevant."

That made Safi full on laugh. "Our Nessie does need to work on her social skills," she said.

"Nessie? She'll have your head for that."

"Just my head? But my neck might get lonely."

The joke wasn't even that funny, but Merik still laughed at the proud expression on her face. She was truly something else.

As the conversation progressed, she made even more stupid jokes. It was only when Merik got home that he realised how the conversation wasn't about his own faults when it wasn't a set up for a play on words.

She also asked if he wanted to join "the new revenge plan". Merik didn't know why, but he accepted. It was a spur of the moment thing. Dragging his friends into the agreement was, on the other side, a completely conscious decision.

It wasn't why he went to meet up with her at the first place, but Merik couldn't deny that it was nice. They weren't friends, so they could insult each other as much as they wanted to. Merik didn't know that arguments could be playful or anything than just outright frustrating. But whatever it was with him and Safi, it was more pleasant than he'd ever admit, and he suspected that she was the same.

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Read the next chapter here: Chapter Seventeen

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when safi has a really stupid questionable brave idea

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