There was supposed to be a new student at Elmore Junior High. Darwin was very excited to meet her. A chance to make someone new feel welcome and happy was a chance he just couldn't pass up. Darwin often put other people's feelings and happiness above his, traits like these made him very easy to take advantage of or manipulate. Little did he know, the new girl had already noticed this from the 5 hours she spent at this school. Gumball on the other hand (like most things) could not give less of an f about it. Just another student to be miserable all the time. As long as she was a decent human being Gumball had no reason to care, until something happened to plant the idea in his head that she wasn't.

"Hey, have you heard of the new girl coming to our school today?" His girlfriend Penny asked him during lunch time.

"Yeah. Why?"

"Well, I'm not too sure about her..."

"Why not?"

"She's my cousin, but we don't like each other."

"Why not?"

"Well, she's a spoiled brat, her side of the family thinks they're better than ours because they can shape shift by choice, where we shape shift based on our emotions."

"So that's not her actual form?"

"No, her neutral form is kinda plain. She always shape shifts into a pretty girl to manipulate people. She used to live far but after getting ran out of her old school-"

"Woah woah woah, she got ran out of her old school?"

"Yeah, she used to be super popular, but she was a total bitch to everyone around her. The students picked up on it and started to rightfully hate her. Eventually, her Dad quit his job and the family moved here. She told me that she would try from a different approach."

"That's good, right, she's not gonna push everybody around?"

"Well, I was very happy to hear that she would try something new, but I didn't actually believe her, so I looked in her room...and..."

"And?"

"Apparently she plans to choose one student in school who's naïve and kind and befriend them, then manipulate them, then escalate it to straight up bullying them, but spin it to everyone in school to make it seem like she's the victim. Like, a toxic friendship. Basically use some poor unpopular student as a stepping stool to popularity"

"Huh" said Gumball, being the insensitive dumbass he is. Gumball knew it wasn't going to be him, he wasn't that easy to trick, but what Gumball didn't consider is that she might choose somebody he cares about...a lot...

Meanwhile in class...

"Alright kids, today we have a new student, stand up and introduce yourself" said Mrs. Simian

"H-hi, my name is Mindy, I like p-ponies and puppies and-"

Wow, Gumball could see what Penny meant. From her cheesy persona to her fake high sweet girl voice, not to mention the fake stuttering. Who did this girl think think she was, an anime character? Gosh she was annoying.

While going to pack his stuff at the end up the day, Gumball saw something he didn't want to. It was that bitch talking to his brother.

"Hi, my name is Mindy, wanna be my friend?

Shit...

I'M SORRY FOR CALLING GUMBALL A DUMBASS IT WAS JUST A JOKE PLZ DON'T CANCEL ME-