Here we go, Chapter 49. Damn, this story went on for quite a while already, never though it would count 50 chapters one day…
Anyway, hope you still enjoy it a little :)
Big thanks to MrShurukan for still helping me with the corrections.
Zootopia – Springtime Circumstances
Chapter 49 – How to change your life
POV Rico
It has been two days since we´ve published that music video. It had taken until yesterday morning and Nick and Judy have already been asked by the press about it. The hype about it grew even bigger and today it was played on the radio for the first time. That felt anything but real. I just strolled into the kitchen this morning after my shower, Sarah and Ivonne were making a deliciously good smelling breakfast and had the radio turned up at quite a volume. They both were in a great mood already.
"Morning, Hotshot!" Ivonne grinned at me happily. Sarah gave me a little smile as well.
"Morning" I replied, still sleepily but in a good spirit.
"Good morning, Zootopia!" the moderator on the radio also greeted me in that very moment, just after that last chart song had ended, "I wish you all a beautiful Saturday! We´re expecting nothing but sunshine today, so there is not much that could go wrong, basically! The only thing that´s even better than the weather today is this brand-new music I´m going to show you now, in case you haven´t heard of it yet…"
Both of the girls giggled in anticipation while hearing it. I couldn´t quite believe what was about to come.
"…the song I´m talking about is called ´Pyro Heart´, and it will melt your hearts away right here on the spot, I´m going to guarantee it to you. And the music video on YouTube is worth a click as well, because police officers Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde themselves have joined in on that production. My god are they looking good once again. Probably one of the reasons it got popular this quickly, but a fantastic song nevertheless" the moderator explained, as the song faded in slowly, "Now have fun listening to Rico Capaldi and his debut single ´Pyro Heart´!"
I just shook my head in disbelief and tried not to grin too widely.
"Hihi, little Rico!" Ivonne giggled proudly, "You´re on the radio!"
"That´s so unreal" I whispered, "I never believed it would happen one day…"
When the girls began dancing though the kitchen to my song, I slowly went on my way to the fridge to get myself a glass of orange juice. While I was drinking contentedly, Sarah and Ivonne kept on dancing and coming closer towards me at the same time.
"You really did it" Sarah chuckled excitedly.
"I did it" I affirmed with a little smile, "Just because I didn't want to get kicked in the butt…"
"I´m so proud of you, little Rico!"
"Me too" Ivonne agreed, kissing me passionately without a warning, "That´s so hot! You´re such a sexy little foxy!"
Both of them were hugging and cuddling themselves into my fur now and I barely managed to secure my glass on the kitchen isle before they dragged me with them and the three of us ended up on the floor with a lot of excited giggling.
"Will every Saturday begin like that from now on?" I asked with a little chuckle. Ivonne was kissing my neck teasingly and her tongue wandered closer and closer to my face once again.
"If you don´t find a way to stop us…" Sarah grinned while climbing on top of me, "…yeah."
Now she began using her tongue on me as well.
"…and not only the Saturdays…"
POV Judy
"One point six million views" Nick chuckled while shaking his head. He was laying on his back on our new couch and watched the YouTube video of Rico´s song once more on his phone, "…in two days!"
"Yeah" I agreed, "The poor Rico won´t be able to leave his own house anymore pretty soon…"
"At least they all know about his awesome music, finally" he chuckled.
"They wanted to visit the springs today" I let him know then, "Sarah just told me about it…"
"Not a bad idea, actually…could be a lot of fun."
"Yeah? You want to join them?" I wanted to know with an excited little smile.
"I´d love to see Rico get overrun by all the ladies there" he confessed, "…that could get pretty hilarious."
"Me too" I confessed with a sly little grin. I couldn´t deny that it was exactly that why I was excited about it as well.
"Oh this is going to be good!" he grinned, "I really need that after all this work in the last two weeks…"
"Alright" I agreed, "But not before we´re done with our workout for today."
"Wanna ask Max and Jenny to join us as well?" he suggested now.
"Yeah, why not?" I agreed, "But not before our workout, don't even try to change the topic, slick!"
"I´ve heard there is a discount today, if you come before noon…" he tried to make me believe, "I think we really should spend the whole day at the springs…"
"I´ve heard you want to get your butt kicked…" I told him, as I climbed on top of him on the couch, "…because I´ll do that with pleasure if you don´t stop complaining already!"
"Alright, fine…" he sighed, "…but therefore I´m going to win the volleyball match this time!"
"We´ll see about that, little foxy" I grinned, "But I won´t make it easy for you this time either…"
POV Rico (springs)
I just came back from the reception where I got my appointment for my luxury massage this evening. I always wondered what that was like, and I wanted to find out about it even more since I had gotten to know Anita the last time we were here. I didn´t really get the chance to receive a full massage treatment back then, so I really wanted to find out today what I had missed out on. I got my appointment with her in the early evening and headed back to the little beach where Sarah, Ivonne, Nick, Judy, Max, Jennifer, Daniel Fangmeyer and my neighbour Katy were relaxing in the warm water contentedly. Judy thought it was not fair that they´ve only spent a day with her daughter Mia at the ZPD, so they asked us to invite her to join us here for today, if she wanted. It wasn´t that big of a deal to convince her, predictably, but we were cool with that anyway, why wouldn´t we? She really loved it being here with us, although she still couldn´t quite believe it.
Just when I was halfway there, I suddenly got stopped by another little group of vixens who came from a different direction and crossed my way just by chance.
"Hey!" one of them giggled excitedly, "Excuse me if I´m wrong, I couldn´t help but notice that you really look a lot like Rico Capaldi" she told me with a happy smile. I couldn't help but grin stupidly about hearing it.
"Yeah, it´s quite uncanny, isn´t it?" I chuckled back with a little wink.
"The colour of your fur matches his exactly!" she remarked, "I´ve watched that video so often already! That guitar suits him so well with his dark fur!"
Although she obviously didn´t believe that it actually was me, she continued making me compliments. I just nodded with a little smile.
"Yeah, right!" one of her friends agreed now, "He does look like a lot him, doesn´t he?"
"You´ll be laughing, but I´ve heard that once or twice before" I told them in amusement. They still didn´t seem to believe that it actually was possible though.
"Now you just need to learn to sing and play the guitar like him" their friend joked, "You could make quite some profit from that I suppose…"
"That´s not a big deal" I chuckled, "I can do that."
Now they rested their paws on their hips and shook their heads with little smiles on their faces.
"That´s a lot of self-confidence" one of them told me with an ironic smirk.
I grinned even more at hearing that.
"That would be a little too unreal if we met the real Rico Capaldi here…" her friend explained, "I think I would just fall into unconsciousness right on the spot" she added with a girly giggle, "I´m so in love with him!"
Although I was a little proud hearing it, I just shrugged my shoulders with a mischievous little smirk, "Would it be even more unreal if you met the SMA himself here today?" I then asked them casually, just to find out about their reactions. It seemed to confuse them a little, but then one of them nodded.
"God yes!" the second red vixen agreed, "So many sexy foxes emerging this year! First that police officer and now that angel with his guitar…" she giggled, "…In the same video!"
"An Angel?" I asked with a chuckle, "Really?"
"Have you seen the video?" she asked me, "Don´t tell me he doesn´t look freaking hot, half naked with his guitar!"
"I have seen it" I chuckled, "A couple of times…"
"Because you look so similar to him?" she giggled.
"…because I want to learn to play the guitar like that" I lied with a little wink.
"That would be really funny!" one of them grinned, "But honestly, you really got the looks already!" she chuckled, "I like what I see!"
"I take that as a compliment" I grinned back with a little wink, but they still didn´t believe me. Not at all.
"Yeah, you really should" the third red vixen told me while looking at my naked body a little closer, "You´re not looking that bad either…"
"Either?"
"Comparing you to Rico Capaldi or Nick Wilde…" she explained with a mischievous little smirk.
"Thanks! At least you guys push my ego a little" I told them ironically, "…but… should I tell him that as well?" I asked then.
"Him?"
"Nick. …and Judy would be quite amused to hear that as well, apparently."
They began giggling even more when I told them that. Slowly but surely, I could understand why Nick was doing that all the time. It really was a lot of fun to play around with people like that.
"I like you, you´re funny!" one of them told me with a big smile.
"I like you guys too" I told them happily, "You said a lot of nice words to me and you´re all happy natures and very beautiful."
That made them giggle even more.
"Do you…I don't know…maybe want to get a drink with us later?" one of them asked me then in all seriousness.
"Sounds like a lot of fun…" I told her with a little wink, "…but I was just on my way to join my friends once again, actually. Thanks for offering it though. I feel very honoured" I told them with a little smile.
"Would you at least tell us your name, hotshot?" one of them asked me.
"My name is Richard."
"Like…really?" she laughed, "That fits your story even better, doesn´t it?"
"It really does" I agreed with a little not, "But I believe I really had enough fun with that now" I added with a wide grin, while I pointed at Nick who was still sitting in the spring water in the distance, "Have a look over there, ladies."
"What…do you mean?" they asked in confusion.
"The SMA himself is chilling in the springs over there" I told them with a warm little chuckle, "One of the best friends I ever had and one of the most awesome people of this city."
Now they noticed him.
"Shut up" one of them chuckled with an unsure smile, "That´s not Nick Wilde over there, is it?"
"And the bunny besides him is not Judy Hopps?" I asked rhetorically.
That really made them a little unsure now. I noticed in that very moment that Nick actually watched us talking from the distance in great amusement. I decided to use that moment and wave him towards us quickly. He excused himself from the others for a second and went on his way towards us without further ado. God how much I was anticipating for that already.
I could literally hear them gasp when he came closer towards us. Seeing their reaction made me so happy right now.
"You guys are strangely quiet all over sudden" I told them while not being able to hold back a little laughter.
The four of us kept watching how Nick came strolling towards us calmly. There were quite a lot of other mammals staring at him as well, but he wasn´t getting distracted from that, naturally. Now a few of them seemed to have noticed me as well.
"What…what the hell? Is this real?" one of the girls asked in shock, "He really looks like him! I know every single angle of his body!"
I couldn't hide a laughter as I heard that and nearly chocked because of it.
"He really does…" her friend agreed, just before he was in hearing range.
"Hey Rico?" Nick asked me with an amused smile, "What´s up, Rockstar?"
I pointed at the girls I just met.
"Oh, hey Ladies!" Nick greeted them with a friendly smile, "Nice to meet you."
They literally were unable to answer him right now. They just kept on staring with big eyes.
"You were right" I confessed after a little pause, "It is a lot of fun to mess with people like that!"
"What happened?" he wanted to know with a big grin of anticipation.
"They stopped me to tell me that I look a lot like Rico Capaldi…" I summarized it in one sentence.
Nick couldn´t hide a little grin hearing it, obviously. "Aren´t you that guy from the YouTube video they told us to join?" he asked ironically.
"Oh my god!" one of them now whispered in disbelief, "What sort of prank is this? Is there a hidden camera somewhere?"
"I hope not" Nick chuckled, "Otherwise that would be against the privacy laws and I would have to arrest somebody…"
"Makes a lot of sense suddenly why I look like him, doesn´t it?" I asked them with a big friendly smile.
"What…? No!" she refused to accept it, "I do not see Rico Capaldi and freaking Nick Wilde right before me! That´s a fake!"
Nick simply turned around for a second and showed them the scar that went across his back.
They covered their mouths with their paws and just stared at his body in pure disbelief. That seemed to convince them.
"Does that look fake to you too?" Nick asked in amusement.
"Holy shit!"
"Yeah, I can´t recommend it" Nick chuckled, "That hurt."
"I think I´m passing out" one of them told us, and she really looked a little like could faint every second.
"No, don´t pass out" Nick chuckled while patting her shoulders carefully, "Stay with us, please!"
"I cannot believe this!" she cried, "This is the best day of my life!"
"And you are really Rico Capaldi?" her friend asked now shyly. I thought it was funny to prove myself as well quickly.
"I´ve been dancing, with the devil on my shoulders - till the morning breaks.
And I get nervous, every time he pulls me closer - that I´ll sink too deep"
I sung the first two lines of "Pyro Heart" for them, and now she seemed to be close to losing her consciousness as well. She was the one who told me how much she was in love with me, and now she just realized it.
Now that they heard me singing, more of the spring guest came closer towards us with great interest. That seemed to be enough to convince them, finally.
"Oh. My. God."
"He´s such a sexy devil, isn´t he?" Nick asked them with a little wink, "You should see him playing guitar alongside with it."
"What the hell are guys like you doing here? I…I mean, here with normal people like us" one of the girls wondered with her paws in front of her mouth in shame of asking it.
"Just having a good time with my friends here" Nick told them our secret with a little smile, "And we´re normal people as well. We´re not worth more than you and we won´t treat you like that either."
I pointed at him while he said it and nodded in agreement.
The vixens just kept on looking at us for a couple of moments, just like the crowd that had gathered around us in the meanwhile. They still seemed to be a little baffled, and it really took them a few moments until they found their voices again. ´
"I won´t get that out of my head for a while" the third one of them commented, "That´s too much for one day."
"It´s okay" Nick waved it off, "We´re used to that."
"A-are you real? C-Can I touch you?" she asked then, now with a little more self-confidence.
"We are very real" Nick chuckled while opening his arms and hugging her carefully, naked as he was.
"Wow" she whispered joyfully, "This is really happening! This is so cool, thank you so much!"
"Is it…is it rude to ask for that as well, please?" her friend asked lowly.
"No…" Nick chuckled while lifting up the vixen he just hugged and putting her back down onto her feet right besides me, "…that would not be rude at all" he told them in amusement while everybody got their hugs from him and I.
"Wow, you are so strong" she giggled in excitement as Nick lifted her up and put her back down next to me so I could give her a hug as well.
"This is the best day of my life!" their friend giggled happily, "Thank you so much for this!"
"You´re welcome!" I told them with a little smile, "Thanks for being good sports about it!"
POV Judy
"Such a bunch of show-offs" Daniel chuckled light-heartedly as we all watched the crowd that had gathered about Rico and Nick in just a couple of minutes.
"Would you not be one, kitten?" Max asked him rhetorically.
"I would" he confessed, "No denying it. I would be such a dick if I could sing like that…" he chuckled.
"Well, at least you´ve been on TV once" Jennifer commented with a big grin.
"On TV next to the biggest casa-nova in history" he corrected.
"Come on, guys" I grinned, "It´s not like he´s actively showing off, is it?"
"I´m just kidding" Daniel waved it off, "I´d sleep with him as well if I were into guys, I won´t even deny it."
POV Nick
While our friendly chit chat with them went on, something really strange happened suddenly. Without them noticing it, Rico pointed at something behind them with his head. I took a quick look and a cold shiver ran down my spine. I haven´t thought about that either. About him. I had totally forgotten about it.
But he seemed to be in quite a good spirit, actually. Freddy was walking around the oasis, talking to the guests here and there and even smiled a little from time to time. He seemed to be completely transformed for some weird reason. He was not trying to flirt with every female he encountered and he wasn't flexing his pumped-up muscles all the time either. He rather looked like he just wanted to help out if needed and be friendly to everybody, to the guys equally as to the girls. That was literally the last thing I expected.
But still, that was a weird situation for us. How could we ever say sorry for what we´ve done to him last time? Why didn´t we consider that before we went here again?
Just speaking of the devil, another quite familiar face came into our sight suddenly. Anita had spotted and came right towards us.
"Excuse us for a minute, ladies" I told them with a little wink while signalizing Rico to follow me, "We quickly need to talk to someone privately."
I really wanted to gain some distance to the other guests for a minute.
"Hey boys" Anita greeted us, happily as ever, "So nice to see you!"
"Hey Anita" Rico greeted her back lowly. He noticeably was little nervous too.
"How are you?" I wanted to know.
"I couldn´t be better" she smiled at us, "What about you guys? Storming the charts I hear…" she added with a big grin at Rico.
"Well yeah…kinda…" he waved it off.
"What about Freddy?" I brought it right to the point, because I wanted to get that over with, "Did he make any trouble after…you know…"
"Nope" she smiled happily, "Quite the opposite. He´s just a gentleman since that happened. Everything is just awesome and it´s so much more fun to work here all over sudden!" she told us with gleaming eyes.
"Like…really?" I asked in disbelief.
I expected Freddy to get onto everybody´s nerves even more after we did that to him.
Rico was equally puzzled about that as it looked like.
"I…I wasn´t expecting that to be honest" I whispered, "…we really went too far with that I realized afterwards. That surely must have traumatised him a little…"
"Yeah" Rico agreed while nodding shamefully, "That was too much. I feel so bad thinking about it now…"
"It was just what he needed as it turned out" she waved it off right away, "That actually was the best thing that could have happened to him…"
"Has he stopped annoying the female guests here as well?" I asked, because she left a short pause just for creating tension.
"Yeah! And they all really seem to love him now…"
"Really? How did that happen? When did that happen?" I asked impatiently.
"Just a day later as it turned out" she told us lowly, and she was whispering now for some reason, "…he was hanging his head for the whole next day after that night, and then I finally pulled him into my massage room because I felt so sorry for him. He burst into tears when I asked him about it and began telling me how sorry he felt for all that. What he did at the volleyball court and so on...he didn´t even complain about what you did to him, he rather told me that he deserved it…"
"Wow…" I chuckled in disbelief.
"Yeah…" she agreed by nodding, "…anyway …I carefully hugged him, tried to calm him down a little…and then offered him to have sex with me if he really wanted, just if he wanted to restore his pride a little…"
"And?" Rico asked.
"…he agreed with it very shyly. Mid way through he stopped though and began crying even more. He apologized and said that it just didn´t feel right to him. He had no feelings and no emotions while it happened."
"Wow…" was the only thing I could say to that right now, but I didn´t want to interrupt her.
"…Yeah, that´s what I thought too" she agreed, "…but then we ended up talking the whole evening…I think he really was glad that it happened, because he finally realized how he had treated everybody before…and then he told me, that…"
She suddenly grinned mischievously before she continued.
"No way, don´t tell me he…"
"Yeah, exactly…" she grinned, "…he´s not really into women anymore. He never really was, actually" she corrected, "And now he finally noticed it…and he noticed that there is nothing wrong with being different…"
"Wow" Rico commented as well now, "That was the last thing I was expecting to hear…"
That left us speechless for a few moments. She wasn´t making that up though, there must be a reason she was in this good of a spirit.
"…it´s the cutest thing ever since he outed himself" she giggled, "Just look at him! He has totally changed, and only for the better! They all love him now! He´s so happy all over sudden…and since then he never got back to his old habits…he just realized that there is no need to mark the biggest macho…"
I still shook my head in disbelief, but there was no way I could dislike what I heard. I was so happy about hearing it, although it still felt a little weird after all that happened. Very weird actually. But weird in a good way.
"That is so awesome, honestly!" I told her excitedly, "Everybody wins, now that his ego wont mess him up anymore!"
She nodded in total agreement, "…and his boyfriend is such a sweetheart as well! I got to know him a few days ago and they are sooo cute together!" she told us with a happy smile, "I think all that just changed his life for good."
"He found someone already?" I asked with great interest.
"Just three days later" she chuckled, "I was surprised as well, but they can´t be split apart anymore…"
"Awesome!" I commented with a little smile, happy about hearing that as well, "This is only getting better, I´m so happy for him!"
Just in that very moment Freddy spotted us over here talking to Anita. I immediately raised my arm and showed him a peace-sign with my paw. Rico waved him as well shortly. He really didn´t look like he was mad about seeing us here again. Quite the opposite was the case. He excused himself from the guests he was talking to and straight on went on his way towards us.
"H-hey guys" he greeted us shyly, but in a smooth way I´ve never witnessed from him before.
"Hey Freddy" I greeted back with a chummy smile.
"I-I wanted to apologize" he stated right away, "I´m sorry for everything that happened! I think I really was just jealous and it was just false to attack you like that…"
I didn´t even know what to say. I just was happy for that change of things.
"I´m sorry too, big guy!" I told him with a welcoming smile while offering him a peaceful hug, "…what we did went a little too far as well! That was not right either…"
He nodded a little, but he wasn´t shy of coming closer as it turned out. I quickly made sure he had no injector with night howler´s serum in his paws and then we simply hugged each other. I never knew he could be this gentle as well, but it really suited him in my opinion. Doing that just felt right to me after everything that happened.
"Thank you so much for giving me a second chance!" he cried in relief happily, "I really changed my life since then and everything is so much better now!"
"I´ve just heard it from Anita!" I told him while patting his shoulders, "This is so awesome! Honestly. You can only be so proud of yourself!"
"Yeah?"
"Totally" Rico agreed, "I think we´ve all learned from that. And I´m sorry too for what happened."
"We surely have!" he smiled, "It´s alright. I´ve learned my lesson, and now I know what it feels like to get treated like that."
The both of us nodded a little with an unsure chuckle.
"I think we should all forget about what happened and leave it all behind us now…what do you think?" he then asked us in all honesty.
It still was a very weird situation, but at least we got it over with now.
"Sounds good to me…" I agreed, "I don´t have to get reminded about that again if you ask me…"
"I´m not quite sure what we are talking about…" Rico chuckled with an ironic little wink that made the four of us smile a little. Then Freddy already turned to leave us once again. We noticeably weren´t the only ones who still were a little nervous and wanted to get this first meeting over with as soon as possible.
"Excuse me, guys" he said, still in a friendly tone, "I was just talking to some other guests and don't want to keep them waiting for too long!"
"Sure thing! Was nice to see you!" I told him.
"Have a nice stay, guys!" he waved us for the farewell, "See ya later!"
"We will, thanks Freddy" I yelled after him.
"Oh!" he stopped himself quickly and turned towards Rico once more, "…that song is awesome by the way! I´m waiting for more already!"
"Thanks!" Rico smiled about it proudly, "Glad you like it!"
I still couldn´t quite believe what I just had witnessed. Freddy really was cool with us now and wasn't even shy of coming close to us anymore. It was like he was on a one-year therapy in just two weeks.
"…didn´t I tell you?" Anita asked, "He´s completely transformed!"
"This is the best thing ever" I agreed with her, "Honestly, I´m so happy right now!"
She agreed noddingly.
"Oh yeah, and talking about that song" Anita grinned, "It really is awesome! I´ve been listening to it so often already!"
"Aww, so nice of you to say that" Rico chuckled happily.
"Nearly as good as seeing you perform live" she told us with a dirty little smile.
"…I have no idea what you´re talking about" Rico used that joke once again.
"Me neither" I agreed with a big grin.
"I wouldn´t mind a second round of that sometime" she whispered shamelessly, "I still get wet dreams thinking about it!"
"Come on, guys…", I chuckled, "We can´t start something like that every time we´re here! …That poor guy is still struggling to finish the last time that happened!"
"That guy?"
"The guy who sees everything we do and writes it down for his audience to read. It always takes him forever to finish those ´special´ chapters!"
"Okay…Nick" Rico chuckled, "I´m not quite sure if I understood all that…"
Anita simply pointed at him to show that she was thinking exactly the same thing.
"Well, at least he´s trying…" I chuckled.
"Where do you know all that from?"
"Where do I know what from?" I wondered then.
"That…that with the…" Rico wanted to say, but then it seemed like he already had forgotten what we were talking about as well, so he just waved it off in the end.
Instead, he turned towards Anita with a little smile. "I´ll visit you later for one of those luxury massages by the way" he told her with a little wink, "…since I didn´t really had the chance to receive one of those last time we were here…"
"Alright!" she told him with a big smile, "That´s one more thing I really like to hear!"
"How only do you do that?" I asked Rico now, "You always know exactly what the ladies want…"
She chuckled a little while she took a quick look at the watch she wore around her left wrist. She didn´t look like she was in much of a hurry though.
"Oh, and the music video of that song was not bad either by the way!" she told us with a big smile, "…although that´s better as well when it´s live…" she chuckled.
"Judy directed that video " I told her in amusement, "No wonder it looked like that in the end…"
"You should keep her as your director" she told us with a big dirty grin, "She did a good job there!"
"You should tell her that by yourself" Rico told her with a happy little smirk, "I think she´ll be proud to hear it."
"I was about to ask already" she giggled, "Where is she by the way?"
POV Rico
"She´s over there by the rest of our friends" Nick pointed out for her quickly, "Why don't you say hello later?"
"I will!" she agreed, "I won´t let them get away that easily…" she grinned.
A moment later, I got asked something from behind me carefully. It was one of the three girls from earlier again.
"Excuse me, Mr. Capaldi?" she asked very shyly, "I was just afraid to ask if there will be a concert from you in the near future…"
That was one thing I never actually thought about before.
"I…uhm" I shrugged my shoulders while turning towards her, "I never really thought about that before to be honest" I confessed.
"Really? …but you´re on the radio and…yeah…"
"That surely sounds a lot of fun…" I thought out loudly, "…but…"
"Hey Anita" Nick interrupted the conversation right here, "…you still got that old six string somewhere?"
"Yeah, sure…" she smiled excitedly. She went on her way immediately, I didn´t even get the chance of stopping her, "Just give me a minute!"
We all just stared after her as she went on her way to get the guitar without further ado.
"Well…" I chuckled.
"That´s what I´m talking about" Nick grinned contentedly, "Judy is the video director and I´m the manager!"
"I should have seen that coming…" I sighed with a little chuckle, "There is no way of stopping Nick Wilde…"
The girls just giggled about it in excitement.
It seemed like my first concert would be right here and right now, totally unplugged and totally naked. Not a bad story to tell either.
"Is she…like really…getting a guitar right now?" one of the vixens asked in disbelief, and I just shrugged my shoulders about it.
"No wonder that comes from you, is it?" I chuckled at Nick who still grinned at me happily.
"They asked for a concert!" he defended himself while pointing at the vixens besides us.
"Oh yeah?" I asked back with a dirty grin, "And what would happen if they asked for a hot night with you, Mr. SMA?"
The three vixens covered their mouths with their paws with nervous little giggles when I asked that. Nick thought it was funny to wink them shortly, and it really was.
"I would send them all right back to you, playboy" he chuckled then, "Just look at them, they love you already!"
I just couldn´t stop myself from grinning about that. Our new friends couldn´t help but giggle about our little bickering. The crowd of guests that gathered around us seemed to get bigger with every minute we spend here, and just before Anita came back with that guitar I played with the last time already, Judy and the others joined us with excited little smiles.
"What´s going on here?" Max wanted to know, "What is the little red fluffball doing again?" he asked jokingly.
"Oh, look" Nick replied with a big smile, "The skyscraper pioneers of Zootopia!"
"Yeah, yeah, Nick!" Daniel chuckled, "You better watch out not to blow up the internet once again…"
"Hey Rico, hotshot" Ivonne giggled, "Have you been spotted already?"
"Oh, even worse than that" I chuckled, just as Anita reached the old guitar over to me, "I´ve been forced to give my first concert right here!" I explained, pointing at Nick while I hung the strap over my neck, "And I´m even more naked than in that video already…"
A few of the other guests giggled about that excitedly.
"Here you go, sweetheart" Anita told me with an excited giggle.
"Thank you very much" I replied with a little smirk.
It really got a lot quieter all over sudden. They all kept watching me with big eyes while I checked the strings for their tune one by one.
"I cannot believe this" one of the vixens whispered lowly, "That´s so hot!"
I gave her a little wink as I played the first few chords of another song I´ve never showed to anybody.
(Lewis Capaldi – Grace /ignore the lyrics if you don't want to listen to it)
"I´m not ready to be just another of your mistakes
I can't seem to drown you out long enough
I fell victim to the sound of your love
You're like a song that I ain't ready to stop
I got nothing but you on my mind
I'm not ready to be just another of your mistakes
Don't wanna let the pieces fall out of place
I was only just a breath removed from going to waste
Till I found salvation in the form of your-
Your grace
Your grace
Your grace
Don't take it away
Your grace
Your grace
Your grace
Don't take it away"
It was quite amusing to see all their reactions to that new song, because not even my roommates have heard of it yet, but they all seemed to genuinely like it.
"On the verge of almost bleeding you out
Are we too wounded now to ever come down?
Oh, how I long for us to find common ground
I got nothing but you on my mind
I'm not ready to be just another of your mistakes
Don't wanna let the pieces fall out of place
I was only just a breath removed from going to waste
Till I found salvation in the form of your-
Your grace
Your grace
Your grace…"
I noticed that a few of them started dancing as well after Nick and Judy began with it, Max and Jennifer for example, Ivonne and Sarah joined in as well, naturally, but most of them just kept staring at me with big eyes. The girls who stopped me earlier seemed to be totally in love with me, and all that was nothing but fascinating to watch.
When I was close to finishing that song, I smoothly switched over to the chords from "pyro heart", and when I began singing to that they all were losing their minds suddenly.
I knew that music brought joy to people and I always had fun doing that before, but today it really was something special. A little did it feel like the air was electrified around me, and when some of them started singing along with me it felt and sounded even more powerful than it did before already.
It really felt like a concert as well in the meanwhile, because it seemed like the whole resort had joined us on this meadow by now.
When I ended the song with a last few strings I pulled, the three vixens who stopped me earlier just fell to my feet, accompanied by a lot of smiling and cheering from everybody around me. It took a little while until they all calmed down a little, but I enjoyed every single minute of it. I felt like the coolest mammal who ever lived in that moment.
"Will you…I don´t know…will you marry me, please?" one of the three vixens asked me in all seriousness.
I couldn´t help but smile about hearing it.
"Wow, Rico" Nick told me in awe, "That new song is really awesome too!"
"Yeah" Jennifer agreed with him, "Your voice is so sexy!"
"When is the video shoot for that new song?" Judy wanted to know with a big happy smile.
"Oooh!" Ivonne yelled excitedly, "Can I be in that as well please?"
I just smiled at what they all said and shrugged my shoulders a little.
"Please! Little Rico, let me be in that video!" Ivonne asked me pleadingly, "This would be sooo cool!"
"Maybe" I grinned at her, "But only if…I don't know, let me think of something…"
"Anything you like!"
"Really, anything?" I asked her with a mischievous grin.
"Anything, hotshot!"
"Alright" I grinned, "I want to get my own private space in the fridge then, Miss I´mJustGonnaHideEverythingWhereNobodyWillEverFindIt…" I told her while crossing my arms.
"Well" she grinned back, "That would be a little over the top, wouldn´t it?" she asked ironically, "Let´s just keep it realistic, okay?"
They all were listening to our little bickering with great amusement.
"Then you have to offer me something else" I grinned at her in amusement, "And you know Nick´s rule!" I reminded her with a big grin, "Nothing is for free!"
"Nick!" she called him ironically, "Why only why did you tell him that?"
I just went towards him quickly and gave him a quick fist bump. We got a lot of laughter for that as well.
"You know what, ladies?" Judy asked Ivonne and Sarah with a big grin, "They´re not the only ones who can play that game…they´re just boys in the end…"
"Right!" Sarah agreed noddingly, "Good point!" she grinned.
"Dammit" Nick cursed, followed by an overacted, ironic little sigh "…I never thought about that…I knew that rule had a mistake in it…"
Judy just patted his head from on top of his shoulders with an evil little smile. They all looked at her in great anticipation now.
"I suddenly got an idea!" I told them with a big smile, "We play a game of volleyball, and if my team wins, I get that private space in the fridge!"
"What about the music video?" Ivonne wanted to know with a cocky smile.
"We´ll still see about that, darling!" I smiled back with a mischievous little wink.
"Volleyball really sound like a good idea though" Nick agreed with my suggestion, "We´re still up for that revenge, Carrots!"
"Let´s go!" she waved us to follow her with a little smile.
She took the lead from on top of Nick´s shoulders and nearly everybody followed us towards the one free Volleyball court that was left.
POV Katy
I loved it so much being here with them today. But it was not only that, my whole life got better since we´ve gotten to know officer Wilde on that one evening. I finally got away from Trevor and he hadn´t bothered me again ever since. Nick and Judy really did what they promised and took Mia out for a whole day at the ZPD, and I rarely had seen her as happy as she was when she came back home on that evening. She told me everything she had learned with gleaming eyes, and that her biggest wish in the world was to become a police officer once she is old enough. Nick and Judy looked like they had quite a funny day as well, I was hoping Mia would behave like I told her, but they didn´t even have anything negative to report as it turned out. The two police officers even came in for a cup of tea on that evening and talked with us for half an hour or so. I loved them so much for all this, I was so happy. And since Mia got her day at the ZPD, they supposed that it only was fair if they invited me to join them in this paradise today. I´ve been dreaming of something like this for ages already, and now I was here with those rock stars. They all were so friendly and down to earth about it that I still wasn´t quite sure if I was dreaming or not.
I haven´t had this much fun and joy since a long time already, so I really hoped that I wouldn´t wake up from this dream too soon, if it actually was one.
Rico´s little concert was absolutely awesome to watch, the mood here was just fantastic and watching them play volleyball made the time fly by as well. And they were so freaking sexy. Even more because Nick really was as nice to everybody as it seemed in the SMA show already, and Rico handled the fame equally well. I knew already that I would have wet dreams for days after seeing them like this, but luckily, they weren´t the only male foxes here today either. I really was in the mood to get to know some new people, and since the atmosphere here was this lovely today, I was not the only one with that attitude. Maybe I could find somebody here who had a little more class then Trevor.
POV Rico
In order to take revenge on Judy, I played in a team with Nick, Daniel and Sarah. Playing volleyball was my favourite thing in the world, especially with these lovely people, and we all were on fire today. But it was quite close again nevertheless, because Judy and her team didn´t go easy on us either. She was supported by Ivonne, Max and Jennifer, and that wasn´t a bad combination either. I had the fun of my life though, no matter who won in the end.
Sarah just managed to save a pretty strong ball from Judy, who was flying through the air like a dash once again, but it was a pretty rough pass towards Daniel because of that, who therefore couldn't do very much to prepare it for our next attack. The perfect point to hit it was too high and too far away for any of us to reach. But since we were one point down on them and we were pretty close to the end of the match already, Nick didn´t want to give them the victory that easily. Short but effectively, he grabbed me by my sides and catapulted me into the air high above the level of the net. I was scared about the sudden take-off at first, but then I immediately got into it. I didn´t really care how my landing would look like in the end, I hit the ball from above with great power and slammed it right into the sand on their side. They had no chance of reaching it, so that point was ours in any case. That must have looked pretty spectacular to watch I imagined, but on my way down I certainly was a little concerned about my landing. It felt like I was moving in slow-motion there for a second, but then I suddenly was standing on the warm sand again safely. I had no idea how he was doing it, but Nick caught me just as easily as he threw me into the air once again and put me back down on my feet smoothly.
There was a moment of astonished silence before they realized what just happened.
"Hell yeah!" I yelled excitedly while replying his high five, "That was awesome!"
We got a lot of applause from our spectators for that move and the scores were tied once again.
"And you think that´s fair, huh?" Max complained ironically but with a big smile on his face.
"We´re fighting for a private space in the fridge here, remember?" Nick grinned, "And you have a flying bunny in your team! So we needed to think of something too!"
"That won´t save you this time though" I added to that boldly, "I already have plans with that space in the fridge!"
Ivonne just shook her head with a little grin while Nick prepared himself for his serve.
"I still wouldn´t be so sure about that…sweetheart" Ivonne chuckled teasingly.
"Let´s quit talking and win this, shall we?" Nick asked with a wink towards our team, just before he fired the ball over the net with his serve, "Here you go, ladies!"
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~furr