Author's Note: For the purposes of this story the flashing eyes thing that happens to Gumball is just an indicator to the audience that telepathic things are happening and not something that the characters can actually see. Otherwise people will immediately figure out that something's up.
The next day Gumball walked to school with an extra spring in his step. It was time to see what these powers could do. He'd spent all last night practicing and he figured out how to read one person's mind at a time. Darwin noticed what he was doing and gave him a sigh and a shake of the head. You didn't have to be a mind reader to know what he was thinking. Gumball sat at his desk with a big smile on his face. "Gumball looks weirdly happy today." Ms. Simian thought "I hope the Joy virus isn't going around again." Gumball hadn't thought of that. He quickly stopped smiling, he didn't want to get sent to quarantine or anything.
"Alright everyone." Ms. Simian said "We're going to start our monday off with a little something special, a pop quiz!" Everyone groaned while Gumball started smirking, this was perfect! While Ms. Simian passed out the quizzes Gumball was deciding who's thoughts to listen to in order to get the best grade possible. Ah, Bobert, he's perfect. He copied the answers from Bobert while still leaving a few questions wrong so as not to raise suspicion. Still, Ms. Simian was baffled and upset that Gumball Watterson got an A, unbeknown to her Gumball was listening to her bafflement and trying hard not to giggle. When the bell rang for lunchtime Darwin went up to him and said "I'm guessing you used your mind reading powers to get an A on the pop quiz."
"Of course I did, you have to admit, this power is amazing!"
"I would say that I can't believe you're doing this, but it's you, so I can." When they got to the cafeteria Gumball headed straight for Penny's table. "Where are you going?" Darwin asked.
"I'm going to talk to Penny, I can use my new power to see how she really feels about me."
"You guys are dating though, doesn't that make it pretty clear how she feels about you?"
"Not for sure, maybe she's planning on breaking up with me, maybe I have this annoying habit that will one day cause her to break up with me so I have to correct it now. There are so many things that could go wrong, but I'm going to catch them all." Darwin rolled his eyes and reluctantly followed Gumball to Penny's table.
"Hi Penny, I hope you don't mind, but I was hoping I could eat lunch with you today." Gumball said
"Sure, no problem." Penny said "Lunch with my boyfriend, yay!" she thought. "Yes!" Gumball thought, "She wants to spend time with me, that's good."
"So" Gumball said "How is your day going so far?"
"Pretty normal, I'm not sure I did to great on the pop quiz though, how do you think you did?" "Probably shouldn't have asked that, Gumball isn't the best with schoolwork. I don't want to make him feel bad."
"I probably did ok." Gumball said, trying to hold back a smile. "don't you hate how Ms. Simian keeps giving us those?"
"Yeah" Penny replied "I think she likes seeing us unhappy." "Phew, he didn't take offense to my question."
"This is going great!" Gumball thought "She seems to care about me." "Yeah, I even heard a rumor that she likes to sit in her office and watch the security cameras for depressed students." "Well, not exactly a rumor as I heard her thinking about it this morning, but she doesn't need to know that."
"Ha ha ha, you're so funny Gumball." Penny said, sure that he was making it up. Gumball didn't confirm or deny this and just smiled. Darwin meanwhile, was looking at Gumball with a disapproving stare. "Uh, oh, Darwin looks upset." Penny thought "I hope he's not mad at me for taking over his lunch with Gumball."
"Gosh darn it Darwin! You're going to ruin everything!" Gumball thought. Next to him Darwin gasped, he didn't know how, but somehow Darwin had heard him, in his head, and he guessed his new mind reading powers had something to do with it. Gumball, wanting to know what Darwin was so shocked about, read his mind and figured it out too.
"Hey Penny, do you mind if I borrow Gumball for a second? We need to talk, now."
"Um, ok." Penny said "Is it something I did?" she wondered
"Don't worry, it's not about you, Darwin's just ticked off at me about something." Gumball told Penny. Darwin quickly dragged him off, leaving Penny to wonder how he knew she was worried it was her fault. It must have shown on her face or something.
