Lilly sighed heavily as she sat in Statistics 301. The most recent exam was being passed back.

"Lilly?" The professor called. Reluctantly, Lilly pulled herself out of her seat to the professor's desk. A 54%. She eyed the test grade in defeat. Her grades had taken a heavy beating from all of the Bellas' rehearsals. She felt even worse since the Bellas had not made it past the semi-finals, she'd essentially sacrificed her grades for nothing. Even worse, Mid-terms were in a week and half- there was no way she could catch up that quickly to earn a passing grade.

"Lilly," the professor whispered to her, urging her to come closer for a private chat. "I know you have a lot on your plate, but at this rate you're barely making a D. If you have time, I'd like you to arrange a meeting with the university tutors. And don't worry, it's free, so you should take advantage of it."

After class Lilly trudged back to her dorm room. A tutor? She didn't need a tutor. She fumed as she threw her Stats book onto her desk. Flipping the book open she began to furiously read the same first paragraph three times over. What language was this book in? Latin? Even though she tried her best to pay attention in class, she didn't understand a penny of statistics. Maybe she did need a tutor...

Hesitantly she opened her laptop and maneuvered her way onto the university tutors' page and filled out the tutor request. Class? Stats 301, Difficulty level? She decided to go with hard, Urgency? This was definitely urgent, Date start? Tomorrow at noon...

Thank you, the site read, a tutor will be matched to suit your request.

Almost immediately an e-mail was sent to her from the university tutors. A tutor had accepted her request to meet tomorrow at the tutor's office in the library.

That was fast... She thought, but she supposed the tutors were always on stand-by.

The next day she headed to the library, finding her way to the office on the second floor. Quietly, she slipped into the room. Having been at Barden for half a year, she wasn't all too surprised to see how fancy the office was. It was similar to a doctor's office with a secretary's desk and what looked to be a hallway that contained private rooms for studying. There were students waiting in the red cushy chairs of the main office. The secretary glanced up from her desk and smiled at her, "Lilly Onakurama?"

Lilly nodded in response, knowing no one would be able to hear her speak.

"Please step into room 232, your tutor will be with you shortly." The secretary pointed towards the hallway. Lilly nodded again and followed the instructions.

Room 232 was a small simple square room with a white board and two swivel chairs framing a round table. She took a seat in one of the chairs and began spinning around in it.

"Knock knock~" A familiar voice sang as the door swung open. Lilly turned to see the Treblemaker's infamous rapper grinning at her.

"Donald?" She whispered loudly in shock.

"How you do'in today doll face?" Donald was still grinning as he placed a stack of textbooks and notebooks on the table.

Lilly was speechless, she wasn't at all expecting her tutor to be someone she knew. Heck, she hadn't even expected Donald to be smart enough to even tutor, he seemed like the type to cruise through classes with C's. However, she was thankful. Donald was one of the rare people who could actually hear her. There were a few times backstage when she would crack a joke to the Bellas, who would only look at her in confusion, but sometimes she could hear Donald snickering, repeating the punch line under his breath.

Donald tilted his head at Lilly's silence. "So I heard you were having some treble with Stats 301." The pun shook the Bella out of her state of surprise. She rolled her eyes at him. "You roll your eyes but you know that pun is good."

She shook her head. "Why are you my tutor?"

He shuffled through the books he brought and placed one in front of her. "Baby, you're the student and I'm the math book, you solve all my problems."

"So you tutor girls to use math pick up lines on them?"

He just smiled and winked. "Alright, let's get down to business. Where are you at in class?"

"The very beginning."

"Okay... Wait what?" Donald quickly did a double take.

Lilly sighed heavily. "I don't understand anything that is going on in class, we need to start from the beginning."

Donald's player boy facade immediately dropped. "When is your mid-term?"

"... Two Mondays from now. It's a cumulative test."

Donald nodded. "We've gotta buckle down. How are your grades in your other classes?"

"Fine."

"Alright, we're going to have to shift all your focus onto Stats so you'll be ready, are you alright with spending your free time studying with me?" He pulled out an agenda and they began scheduling times to meet up to study. Lilly was surprised. Donald was unexpectedly serious about tutoring. "Now, Stats isn't something to be intimidated by. There isn't too much to the calculating, it's more about writing and memorizing the proof sentences. You'll get it all down easily if we keep practicing..." Lilly watched, mesmerized as Donald droned on about Stats. "Hey, hey." He snapped his fingers in her face. "I know I'm pretty to look at but we gotta focus."

They studied 30 minutes at a time, with 15 minute breaks in between.

"Hey, hey Lilly." Donald would nudge her every so often. "If you were sin to the 2x and I was co-sine to the 2x, then together we'd make one."

And every time she'd shake her head. He was making her study seriously, but he made sure to keep things light and fun. After about 2 hours their reservation on the room ended, so Donald ended their session.

"Wanna hear something impressive?" He asked her as they left the tutor's office.

"Sure?" She answered hesitantly.

"I can figure out the square root of any number in less than 10 seconds."

"Hmm, that is impressive."

"Want proof? Let's try it on your phone number." He smiled as he waved his phone. For the hundredth time that day, she shook her head with a smile. They exchanged numbers.

"Well? What's the square root of my phone number?" She smirked.

"Oh? Ahm... 94,624."

She looked at him in disbelief. "No way, you're just guessing." Quickly, she opened her calculator app and squared 94,624. It was in fact her number. "Wow... nerd alert much."

She laughed as he made a ridiculous frowning face.

They split ways at the library entrance. Lilly smiled feeling more confident about Stats. As she walked away she felt a nagging feeling to turn around. Succumbing to the nag, she looked over her shoulder to see Donald turning to look over his shoulder at the same time. She halted in her step. He grinned and made a heart with his hands. She shook her head again. Getting tutored by this boy was going to be interesting...

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Someone suggested I write a LillyxDonald so I did... hope that first chapter went well.

I'm planning on updating every Saturday, so look forward to it!