INTERDIMENSIONAL: PART 1 (GirlXGirl) ✓

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Chim stood staring at the engraving on the statue labelled "Richard Crowtny". Had whoever carved the statue misspelled the last name? Chim was pretty certain that there was a missing 'e, after 'n' and before 'y'. She shook her head. There was no way someone could make such a grand spelling mistake.

Chim wondered if she had been misspelling the name of her hometown her entire life.

"Nazo!" Chim heard a familiar voice yell.

She turned her head quickly. There it was, that name again. In the distance, Nicole was approaching her with a look of astonishment on her face.

"When did you get your hair done?" Nicole asked, motioning to Chim's long braids. "I saw you just a few hours ago, and you definitely did not have braids in."

"What did you call me?" Chim asked, completely ignoring Nicole's previous question, which had barely registered in her head, "what was that name you just called me?"

"Um... Nazo?" Nicole replied, still admiring Chim's hair.

"And why did you call me that? How did you even know about that name?" Chim shoved Nicole's hand that had reached up to touch her hair away, causing her best friend to stare at her in utter confusion.

"You mean why did I call you by your name?" Nicole asked incredulously.

Chim blinked at her in bewilderment. That was most definitely not her name, and she wondered how Nicole learned the history behind it.

Chim thought of how her father had told her he had struggled in naming her, he didn't know which of his sisters, Nazo or Chim, he wanted to name her after and had ended up placing ripped up sheets filled with both names in a bag and taking a random draw. The name 'Chim' had come up.

"Are you playing a prank on me?" Chim asked, narrowing her eyes, "also, why didn't you and Adya show up at the cafeteria earlier on? You know we always have lunch together on Thursdays."

"First, we have lunch together on Mondays not Thursdays, secondly... why do you want to have lunch with Adya?" Nicole stared at her friend, wondering why she was acting so weird suddenly.

"Why wouldn't I want to have lunch with Adya? She's our friend too." Chim replied defensively.

Nicole eyed her. "I mean, I've never even spoken to her outside of our Design class, but I didn't know the two of you were so close."

By now, Chim had noted that everybody seemed to be losing their marbles. Either that, or she was the one losing her marbles. Chim knew she was pretty sleep deprived, but surely not to that extent.

"Nazo!" a voice suddenly yelled out. Once again, Chim turned around and saw a tall, lean boy waving at her.

She instantly recognized him. He was pretty well known around school to be a stoner. He hung out with the likes of Max. Chim narrowed her eyes at him as he drew closer before turning her attention back to Nicole.

"How many people did you tell about that name? I think it's pretty weird that everybody wants to refer to me as that all of a sudden," Chim said as she thought back to the boy in the Cafeteria.

She was irritated at Nicole for spreading the name around the school, but bewildered, as she still had no idea how Nicole had learnt of the name.

"You're being really weird today, Nazo. Are you okay?" Nicole asked, a look of concern was spread across her face.

Chim glared at her friend in reply. She just couldn't understand why she insisted on calling her by that name.

"Um, okay..." Nicole said, noticing the expression on her friend's face, "your boyfriend is approaching. Hopefully, he'll cheer you up from whatever it is you've decided to take out on me."