Gacha Story (Mature Readers Only)

Vivienne Lian

Oh, I should have studied for this test, Yuyu cursed. How on earth am I supposed to know what fish is in German?

Via was mentally laughing. Stop, you're projecting to me. You're distracting me, Via thought. Isn't your name 'fish-fish' in Chinese? Shouldn't you know?

I don't know German. Whoever knows German is weird.

Our mother literally speaks German.

Oh, yeah.

Doesn't the smart kid know?

Oh wait. Yuyu scribbled down the answer. Smart kid says it's 'Fisch'.

Fish? Yeah, but what is it in German.

F-I-S-C-H.

What about the next question? Via asked. You know, I wish mum taught us German. We'd be so good at it.

True. She never speaks it unless she's talking to Romano. Actually, she never even speaks to us because she's famous.

Rhona Jäger-Kyle. Via tried to stop projecting her thoughts, but couldn't, as she was always thinking. You're distracting me. Please stop. But I don't want to sound rude.

Ouch, Yuyu replied. I'm trying to help you.

That's why I don't want to be rude. Wait, you can hear me?

Yuyu mentally rolled her eyes and left her sister alone. She looked at Jack, who was concentrating hard on his test paper. Hi, Jack, Yuyu said to him. You know, Via is in love with you. She can't stop thinking about you.

Jack dropped his pen abruptly and the teacher eyed him suspiciously. Wait, really? Damn, I love her too. No, wait - I don't want Yuyu to hear it! What if she gets upset? It doesn't mean I don't like her as much, but - stop thinking, dammit!

Yuyu laughed. He was going to be angry at her after the test. Maybe. Hey, Katie, she said to Katie.

Stop disturbing me, Katie thought. I need to finish the test first.

Fine, then. I won't tell you that Jack is going crazy while daydreaming about you right now.

Katie looked over at Jack, who was still concentrating on his paper. No, he doesn't, you liar! Stop messing with me, Yuyu! And I don't even like him like that!

Alright. Yuyu knew a truth from a lie. Pst! Vivienne Lian!

The smart kid didn't look at her, but frowned, their thoughts filled with confusion. Am I hearing a voice?

Don't worry, you aren't hallucinating. Someone in this classroom is speaking to you.

The smart kid, Vivienne Lian, panicked, looking round, but everyone's head seemed to be in their papers. Stop that! Don't talk to me! How can you even talk in my head?!

I'm special. You might want to be careful. Oh, too late. The teacher is gonna disqualify you for this test. You're gonna fail. The first test that you'll fail in.

Vivienne Lian stood up and the teacher stared at her in horror, and hissed; "Vivienne Lian! Sit back down!"

"Miss, are you disqualifying my paper?"

"Yes, I - how did you know?!" The teacher exclaimed.

"Someone in this class is a mindreader! They were distracting me!"

"You're distracting everyone here. The only mindreader is you. How dare you read my mind?! I wonder how many times you've done this. No wonder your grades have been good so far! Come outside now! Cheating isn't tolerated!"

"I wasn't cheating! I studied for this test! This isn't fair! Someone is pranking me!"

"VIVIENNE LIAN! GET OUT NOW!"

She closed her mouth and ran out of the room, crying, the teacher following her out and shutting the door.

Once the teacher left, the classroom was filled with chatter. People were discussing whether the smart kid had gone crazy or whether she was a mindreader and cheated to get good grades.

Katie, Jack and Via knew immediately that it was Yuyu.

"I can't believe you did that," Katie said to Yuyu. "You were incredibly mean. I feel bad for her. She worked hard for this test and deserved a good test. I can't say the same about you, but you'll get a good result and she won't."

"Who cares?" Yuyu asked. "She needs to learn that not everything can go her way. There are things that are more important than studying and school, you know. It was just a prank. She will be okay. Well, she should learn to be."

"Imagine if you studied hard and someone did this to your hard work and effort."

"That wouldn't happen, though," Yuyu replied. "I'd never study, and I can't imagine doing so."

Via laughed. "But that was pretty funny to see her finally knocked off her pedestal that she puts herself up."

"Yeah," said Jack. "Her reputation is ruined, for sure."

Yuyu looked at Jack. You love Via. Why don't you tell her?

Jack turned pink and Yuyu was smirking.

Via looked weirdly at them. "Are you two okay?"

Yuyu laughed. "Nah, I'm good. I just find that Vivienne Lian situation hilarious."

"Right..."

Yuyu winked at Jack. "No idea what's - who's on his mind!"