All Chapters of The Cheat Queen Reads My Mind Every Test: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

I'd barely gotten to "C-D-E-F-G" when I caught my sister, Joey Crawford, freezing up.She usually copied my answers without missing a beat, but this time her pen hovered in midair. She kept glancing back at me, her face turning red.I couldn't help it. A laugh slipped out.She panicked and stomped her foot under the desk, hard enough that the thud echoed through the room."Quiet, please. Eyes on your own paper." The proctor looked up and fixed her with a stern look.Joey's face went scarlet. She shot me a glare that could have killed.If those live comments said I was her stepping stone, then fine. I'd pave her a path straight into a ditch.I stopped humming and turned my attention back to the exam. It was time to set the trap.The real answer to question two was B, so I deliberately thought, "I got this one wrong on the last practice exam. It's definitely C. I can't make the same mistake again."Question five worked out to D, so I put on a whole internal performance. "Wait, I

I opened my mouth to speak, but Dad waved me off impatiently, as if he were shooing away something unpleasant."Get out of here. You're an eyesore. I'm taking Joey to her favorite restaurant. She needs the energy for this afternoon's exam."Joey stayed nestled against his chest, half her face hidden behind his arm. She blinked at me with a quick, sly flutter, the corner of her mouth curling into a smirk. There wasn't a trace left of the crying, helpless act from a minute ago.The three of them turned and walked away without a single backward glance. The crowd had gotten their show, so they scattered too, still whispering and pointing at me as they left.I wasn't angry. I actually smiled.That afternoon, when I walked into the exam hall, Joey made a point of swinging by my desk. She leaned in close to my ear, dropping her voice so that only I could hear."You're nothing. You belong on a factory floor, not in a classroom. That Ivy spot was always going to be mine."More comments f

More comments floated in midair."What just happened? Is the system glitching?""That doesn't make sense. The female lead got all of the side character's answers. How did she score that low?"I looked up at the screen. The number was right there in black and white.The score was abysmal. It didn't even clear the minimum cutoff for the lowest-tier schools."How is that possible? Did you type in the wrong ID number?" Mom was the first to react, practically throwing herself at the computer.Joey's hands were shaking so badly that she could barely hold the mouse. She re-entered her exam ID over a dozen times and botched the verification code seven or eight attempts in a row, yet every single time she hit search, the same score stared back at her.The smile on Dad's face turned to stone. Mom was so panicked that she called Mr. Harris on the spot, but even he was stunned. He said the system was working fine and every other student's score had come through normally."Look up yours!" D

The footage was crystal clear. You could even catch the flash of satisfaction on her face the moment she did it.My parents had installed that camera themselves last year because they were worried Joey might sneak out to hang with friends. They'd set it to the highest resolution, and it picked up audio too.When Joey had bumped into me on purpose that morning, you could hear her whisper, "That's what you get."Lines of comments drifted by."I'm dying. The parents installed the camera, and it ended up being the thing that busted their precious daughter.""They literally set themselves up. This is too perfect.""Remember when the female lead accused the side character of knocking over her drink outside the exam hall? How is that feeling right about now?""That's fake! You deleted the real footage! You edited this!" Joey shrieked and lunged for the flash drive. Dad snapped out of it at the same time and reached for the tablet, ready to smash it. "What kind of garbage footage is t

Joey sat in the corner of the couch, her face white as paper. Her nails had dug into her palms hard enough to leave marks, and she stared at me with pure venom.More comments floated by. "So this is what it looks like when the state's top scorer gets the royal treatment. It's unreal."I'd barely exchanged a few words with the two university representatives when Dad sidled over, rubbing his hands together with a grin that was trying way too hard."Eloise, sweetheart, now that you've really made something of yourself, the school's going to give you that big merit scholarship, right? 100 thousand dollars?"Your sister didn't do so well this time. She's going to need to repeat the year, and that's about 100 thousand in tuition. Why don't you just hand over the scholarship money to cover it?"Mom jumped right in. "Exactly. And while you're at it, maybe ask these people if they can pull some strings for Joey. Get her some kind of special admission somewhere—even a community college woul