"A tutor?" Ruby asked blankly at Principle Blue. "The three of us, are going to get tutored?" She continued, unamused.
"I suggest that if you want to stay in the football team, you should agree. It'll only be until your next history finals and english exam."
"How embarrassing! I can't get a tutor." Aurora whined. "At least not in public." She added.
"Besides, who are our tutors? And our grades are fine." Emma chimed in.
"According to your last Law and Society exam, you failed Miss Swan." Principle Blue said sternly. "Girls, I've had it with your whining. Wether you want to fail this semester, be my guest. But I'd take my chances if I want to make it through senior year." And with that she walked back into her office, leaving the three sat in silence for a moment and thought about it.
"Whatever, I'm in." Ruby said.
"Yeah, the tutor might be hot." Emma smirked. "Come on Aurora, what do you have to lose?" She asked.
Aurora bit her lip and nodded slowly. "The tutor better be nice."
~•~•~•~
That following week, Mulan sat waiting in the library after school to meet Aurora with her mathematics textbooks open. Considering the fact that they had no similarities whatsoever, they have never met in person. She did however see Aurora within schools grounds, but constantly crowded with many students because of her popularity. Aurora probably never knew she existed and they were in the same class. Mulan was quite nervous for the first time. Bobbing her knee up and down she looked at her watch and sighed.
10 minutes late.
She looked to her left to see Regina sitting at another table waiting for Emma. and by the looks of things, she was fed up already. Teeth clenched and white knuckled fists, she was fuming. Belle on the other hand, sat on another table to her right tutoring the famous Ruby Lucas. They seemed to get along fine, observing Ruby's white toothy grins when she got an answer correct and Belle encouraging her in return.
"Are you Mulan ?" A voice asked from behind as a hand rested on her shoulder. From Mulan's instincts, she gripped the wrist of the stranger and twisted it as she turned to face who was behind her.
"Jesus! What the hell?!" The girl screamed in pain.
"Shit! Oh my God! I'm so sorry. I didn't know who you were and I thought you were some stranger." Mulan babbled as she released her grip, looking at how beautiful Aurora was even thought she was in pain.
"I'm Mulan. Your tutor for the next few weeks. I'm so sorry."
"I know." Aurora said, quiet annoyed and still rubbing her wrist. "I'm-"
"Aurora Rose. I know who you are, if anyone didn't they'd be too stupid to be in this school. And I'm in your class." Mulan said dully.
"So you know me? And you are?" Aurora asked.
"Obviously, I'm your tutor. I know who my students are. Maths class." She replied. "Let's not get side tracked. Have a seat, and I'm really sorry about the attack."
"Don't worry. Let's just get this over and done with." She said as she rolled her eyes and plopped herself in front of Mulan.
Mulan looked over on her left to see how Regina was going. Still, no show up of Emma. Mulan knew who Emma was, in fact she'd probably be closest with Emma than the other two popular girls. Mulan and Emma both attend self defense classes provided by the school, and they became sparing partners. Mulan also took extra karate lessons outside of school as well.
"So, I'm doing trigonometry right now." Aurora said as she pulled out her things.
"I see." Mulan said as she flipped through the textbook.
"And I know about soh cah toa." She continued. "But I don't get it when-"
"When you have find the length of the hypotenuse." Mulan finished her sentence.
"So, what else do you know about me?" Aurora joked.
Mulan laughed a little. "I just know your weaknesses. For example, your wrist." Mulan joked back.
Aurora laughed with her. Maybe this wasn't going to be as bad as they thought.
~•~•~•~
"Hey! Regina right? Sorry I'm like super duper late." The blonde panted with sweat forming on her forehead.
"Miss Swan, please tell me why you wasted 20 minutes of my life ?" Regina replied cooly.
"Well, I was hungry so I went to the store and got pop tarts." Emma handed a packet to her. "Want one?"
"No. Sit down." Regina said sternly.
"You're pretty hot when you're angry." Emma smirked.
"W- What?" Regina stammered, giving a clear indication that she had no experience whatsoever.
"You're blushing." Emma said.
Regaining her composure and taking a deep breathe, Regina replied, "Okay, you got me. I'm completely clueless when it comes to dating. But get this straight, I'm your tutor and your tutor only. You're my student and student only. I'm not interested. Understand?"
"Okay, we'll see about that." Emma said smirking, as she opened up her Law and Society textbook.
~•~•~•~
"So where are you from?" Ruby asked as she looked onto Belle's notes. "I noticed your accent. You're not from Storybrooke, are you?" She asked.
"I'm from a place where people don't copy other peoples notes." Belle said as she covered her notes as much as possible. "Please, Ruby. concentrate."
"I'm trying but your accent. I can't pin point where you're from."
"I'm not telling you, until you tell me about the main causes of the French Revolution." Belle said a little annoyed.
"King Louis was an asshole." Ruby said shrugging. "You're not British, are you?" Ruby asked once again.
Huffing out an exhausted sigh, Belle sat up straight. "Australian." She answered. "Now, you need to be more specific and not say that King Louis was an A - Hole. What about Marie Antoinette and her contribution to the causes of the Revolution?"
"Do you ever swear once in your life?" Ruby asked again, off topic.
"Do you ever stay focused?" Belle retorted.
Ruby smirked a little and started chuckling to herself. "You're cute."
"And you're off topic."
"No seriously, the accent going on and all. And here I thought, tutoring would be boring and stupid. That was until I realized that you're not so bad as I thought." Ruby trailed off.
"Excuse me?" Belle asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I uh- didn't mean that. I just wanted this to be a 'get it over and done with' situation." Ruby tried to cover. "Can I get your number ?"
"Smooth." Belle said sarcastically.
~•~•~•~
"So, if the angle is 63 degrees and the adjacent is 20, the formula we'd punch in the calculator would be- Aurora, that's not your calculator." Mulan said as she looked over at the other brunette.
"Don't worry! I'm just using the calculator app." Aurora said defensively as she pulled out her phone. At that moment, the sound of a swishing sword came from her phone followed by a splish. Smiling sheepishly, Aurora knew she was busted.
"You've been playing Fruit Ninja, the entire time?!" Mulan said almost shouting. "Did you hear anything I said to you for the past hour or so?!"
"Okay! For the record, I've been playing Candy Crush too, and second yes! You said something about the angle being 20 degrees and adjacent being 63."
"The angle was actually 63 degrees and 20 was the adjacent." Mulan corrected. "But that's not the point! You're not taking this seriously."
"I know! I'm sorry! Give me another chance before you go all karate on me again."
Mulan looked over at the pleading brunette. She was beautiful, with her piercing deep blue eyes that Mulan couldn't get over. Or the way her brown hair seemed to fall over her shoulder perfectly like a waterfall. But Mulan couldn't show any sign of affection to the girl. She didn't see her the way Mulan did.
"Fine." Mulan looked over at to her right, to see Belle and Ruby packing up their things. To her left, she saw Emma babbling on to Regina while she too, packed her things up, rolling eyes at everything Emma said.
"Can we call it a day?" Aurora asked with puppy dog eyes.
"Sure."
"Great! My boyfriend, Phillip is going to pick me up." Boyfriend, of course. "I'll see you tomorrow Mulan?"
"Yeah sure." Mulan said as Aurora left the library.
~•~•~•~
Later, the three met up at Granny's Diner. Mulan served Belle her second iced tea and gave Regina a hot chocolate with cinnamon.
"I can't work with, Cher Horowitz the second. This is a nightmare. She tells me about how much she wants to be a sheriff and yet, she's failing Law and Society." Regina complained as she sipped her hot chocolate. "And she keeps on flirting with me."
"Try working with Ruby Lucas. It's like trying to teach the French Revolution to a dog, she is easily distracted." Belle sighed heavily. "She asked for my number!"
"Aurora is just unfocused. She's not all that bad cause-"
"You're letting her off easy Mulan, I saw the way you looked at her. If she was Killian, you would have kicked his butt." Belle said smiling.
"Ass. Just say ass." Regina said shaking her head. "But she has a point. You have a set of eyes on her."
"Don't be absurd! She's just pretty." Mulan said.
"Mulan! Table 4! I didn't let you work here for nothing." Granny said over the counter.
"What's got her so angry?" Belle asked.
"Ask your student. Ruby quit so I took her spot, her grandmother is not happy." Mulan puffed as she headed towards table 4.
