At breakfast the next day, Judy and her friends sat their table as gossip around them involved the Sadie Hawkins dance of girls knowing what boy they want to ask to the dance. Judy had already made her mind of asking pain-in-the-neck Nick Wilde and had told girls this when they asked her who she was asking to the dance.

There were some gasps as it was no mystery between the two schools that Nicholas Wilde and Judy Hopps had a rivalry between them. It all started last year when Judy was studying outside and a water balloon landed on her and she saw Nicholas giving off an innocent look and claimed it was an accident when it clearly wasn't.

But she got back at him about a few days later when he taking a nap in the sun and she threw her own water balloon at him. She delivered the same line as he did and a glorious rivalry was born between the two. It was always the same thing, of them upping the other.

Some saw the rivalry as funny but some including Fru-Fru thought it was romantic. As many old stories has told of famous couples fighting before falling in love. But Judy couldn't see that happening, for she believed she and Nick were too different and would have nothing in common.

One girl-an otter-asked, "But what would happen if he said yes?"

Judy smirked, "He won't. He doesn't want to be near me any more I don't want to be near him. So I can go to the dance without a date and know that I managed to up Nicholas Wilde will be all that matters to me."

She was in class trying to pay attention but her mind was on twenty minutes from now when it would be the lunch break and she would find Nick and ask him to the dance where he would be completely flabbergasted by what she was saying and tell her in disgust he would not go with her. The thought made her smirk.

Once the bell rang she headed outside to the wall and look over to find the red fox among the other students going about the lunch period. To her luck she spotted him with his friends at a table as they were eating.

Perfect… his friends are with him that should make it more humiliating for him…

She called out, "Hey! Wilde! Come over here!"

Nick had stop eating as him and his pals looked over to see the rabbit on the wall.

He gave his friends a smirk, "Right on cue…" he put on a confused look before going to her. "What do you want, Carrots? Can't you see we're eating? You know it's considered rude to call at meal time."

"Oh, don't worry this won't take long." she put on a smile, "Have you heard about the Sadie Hawkins dance?"

Oh this is going to be good… Nick thought as he pretended to be suspicious, "Yeah, but why are you telling me this?"

"Well… I was wondering if you already have a date to the dance." she smirked.

"As a matter of fact, I don't. Now I assume you're going to gloat about it?" he furrowed his brow being an incredible actor.

"No. In fact…" she flashed a smile, "I was going to ask you to the dance."

Nick made a gasp and put his hand over his heart, "Say it ain't so! Carrots, you're actually asking me out on a date?"

"A dance actually, but yes, yes, I am."

"Well, there's only one thing I can say to that…"

Judy thought, Here it comes, the rejection.

"Sure, I'll go with you."

"Oh, I understand, I figured you wouldn't- Wait… What did you say?"

"You heard me. I'll go with you." he wanted to so badly cheer out loud when he saw the bunny's face. Nailed it!

Judy was sputtering, "But… but…"

"So shall I pick you up or do you have to do that, since it's your girls' dance…"

"I… I… I need to get going!" she ran off.

He called out to her, "Okay! We'll work out the details later then!" he made a chuckle as he went back to his friends and told them the whole thing and how it was worth it.

Judy was sitting on her bed rocking back and fore, she just could not understand where she had gone wrong. She had it all worked out. Ask the fox to the dance, simple. See the look on his face of being confused and mortified, fine. Wait for the incoming rejection… never came. He actually said yes. The stupid fox said yes.

"He said, yes… He said, yes…" normally any other girl would be rejoicing that their guy said yes, but not Judy. "He said, yes… Why did he say, yes…?"

She kept on rocking.

Dawn had finished the interviews around the All-Boys school, it was exhausting but she couldn't let Giselle go with some guy that was just going to use her to be more popular. The gazelle deserved better than that. When she entered the dorm room she was surprised to find Judy on her bed in a daze while Fru and Giselle were comforting her.

"What happen?" the sheep asked.

"He… said yes, Dawn." said the shrew.

"He what?!" she gapped.

Giselle replied, "It's true, we came back seeing her like this and she told us he accepted going to the dance with her."

"We were afraid she would lose her mind!"

Judy uttered, "I think I already have… Nicholas said yes, and since I asked him, I can't back out now…"

Dawn went over and patted her paw, "Don't worry, the dance won't be for two weeks, you can avoid him until then."

That made the bunny feel better already.

"Oh, and by the way I have the interviews right here," she set down a sack of paper in front of the girls and that got them excited.

"So many to choose from…" Giselle said under her breath.

Judy proclaimed, "Don't worry, we'll help you out."

They went through the papers and when Judy got to Ben's report, she said, "You know, out of all them Clawhauser shows the most promise because we know he's such a sweet guy and his respond to Dawn's question about 'how would you treat a date?' is that he would treat her with respect and let her be herself."

"I remember that." said Dawn, "He was being sincere about that and his friends backed him on that."

Fru said to Giselle, "You know… since Judy has to take Nicholas why don't we ask out his friends to help Judy keep an eye on him since it was quite a surprise for all of us that he accepted her invitation."

Giselle agreed, "That's a good idea and Ben does sound like my best option to the dance. But who will you ask?"

Fru-Fru slightly blushed and said, "Finnick."

"Finnick?!" they said.

"It's just he's close enough to be my size and he reminds me of my father, having a tough image to maintain but I can tell he's a real sweetheart underneath that…"

Meanwhile, the boys were back to listening in to find out who Giselle had picked and Nick felt smug when he learned that Judy nearly lost it when he said he would go with her. Ben still felt guilty about listening in but it made him happy that Gazelle was going to pick him after all. But what surprised them the most including Finnick was when Fru confessed she was going to ask him and it made the guys laugh when she said he was a sweetheart.

"It's not funny." the fennec declared.

Nick smirked, "Why? Because it's true…?"

The small fox flick his ear in irritation.

Gideon asked, "Would you actually go with her?"

"I might."

"Really?" Ben's eyes widen.

"Sure. She's not bad looking for a shrew plus she's loaded."

"That and you're flattered she called you a sweetheart…" Nick grinned.

"Shut up, Nick."

The week went on and sure enough when Fru asked Finnick to the dance, he agreed to go with her and when Giselle asked Ben one day after school, Leodore and Bogo were so shocked that it made Nick more and more smug knowing he won their little bet but he noticed his date was keeping to her friend's advice by making sure she avoided him as much as possible.

On the bright side, she'll have to see me at the dance no matter what. Only one more week…

It was the strangest dream she ever had. She became a police officer at the top of her class where Dawn and Leodore Lionheart had presented her badge and it was happiest moment in her life. Then later, she was in Zootopia and went to her first day on the job where she saw Clawhauser being the ZPD's secretary then she saw Bogo as Chief of Police and had assigned her as a meter maid much to her disappointment.

But she eventually gave in, and was going a great job until she spotted a certain fox going into an elephant size ice-cream parlor. Wondering what he was up to she followed him inside and to her surprise she saw Finnick dressed up like an elephant and was acting like a toddler. She hated to admit it but Fin actually looked adorable when he acted like that. But what surprised her more was that she actually came to Nicholas Wilde's rescue by helping him get a jumbo-pop! For a while there he seemed like a nice guy, but then she found out he was using the jumbo-pop for his own conning purposes.

The Judy in the dream was furious by this and confronted Nick and interestingly enough he was a bigger jerk to her then when they were awake. She was upset by his words and was still upset in the next part of her dream as she was having tough time as a meter maid but then a weasel stole something from a shop and she knew she had to stop him. During the chase she stopped a giant doughnut from crushing Fru-Fru, much to her relief. But when she got back to the station, Bogo was on the edge of firing her when she had decided to take a case of finding an otter's missing husband, until Dawn came to her rescue and Bogo told her she had two days to find the otter or she'd resigned.

In no time she looked over the file and realized she had a lead in Nicholas Wilde. Naturally he wasn't being cooperative but she managed to get him with tax evasion and since then the two of them were being like what they were in real life. Which was no surprise for the sleeping Judy. But it wasn't until they were in Tundra Town was when things started turning in a different direction, having narrowly escaped an icy fate when Fru saved them from her father. They started working together better when they went to the Rainforest District and it was scary to see Mr. Manchas turning savage and they had to run for it.

Then she surprised herself again that she saved Nicholas' life and when Bogo was demanding for her badge was when the fox then came to her rescue! He told the cape buffalo off and motion her to a gondola where she expressed her gratitude and Nick gave his back story to her. She actually felt sad for him until she remembered it was just a dream. The more time they spent solving the mystery the closer they got and really started liking each other! But then when they were at a press conference they had a bad misunderstanding and when Nick left her she actually didn't want him to go!

She found herself feeling miserable for causing a wedge between the city and she gave up her badge because she couldn't protect a city if she was responsible for breaking it. She went back home and discovered the true cause of the savage attacks and sought out Nick. Once she found him she pleaded and apologized to him. For a moment he looked like he couldn't be swayed until he used her carrot pen recorder on him just as she did him. The Judy that was sleeping was shocked to find herself hugging the fox! The dream continued on, they found the weasel that stole the Night Howlers, the train car where the laboratory was, and when they got to the museum she was even more shocked to find her friend responsible behind the whole the plot!

Nick and her devised a cunning plan and managed to get Dawn to squeal her plan and after that she was arrested. She was then at the police academy giving a speech and Nick gave her a wink. She pinned on his badge and they saluted to each other. When it was their first day working together, Bogo assigned them to find a street racer and when they were in the squad car, they were making playful banter until he said.

"You know you love me…"

"Do I know that? Yes. Yes, l do."

That did it for her as she woke up with a startle. She panted from the fright and saw her roommates were fast asleep. Going over the dream, she was taken aback how she wasn't scared by the predators turning savage or her good friend Dawn being behind the whole thing. She was scared by the fact she practically told Nicholas Wilde she loved him.

She said quietly to make she didn't wake her friends, "Hell no… that will never happen… Maybe I would if the Nicholas Wilde was anything like the Nick I saw in my dream but he's not just like Dawn wouldn't do anything so horrible to predators…" she laid her head back on the pillow cursing the fox for making her feel this way. She concluded that the reason she had this dream was because of the torment she been feeling for the last two weeks after his acceptation to go to the dance with her.

Little did she realize it but the fox next door was having the exact same dream…