The weeks went on, midterms came and gone even if students that were still disturbed by the graffiti had a hard time concentrating but luckily, the message has been wiped away so the wall looked like it hadn't been touched so that helped ease their minds. And soon their attention went toward the Haunted House the All-Boys' were hosting for Halloween.

Even the professors were looking forward to the event because they knew it would lift everyone's spirits again. However there was one student feeling unsure about attending.

"I just know he'll do something to get back at me for what happen at the dance." said Judy as she was at her desk doing homework.

Fru-Fru had been going over costume ideas and said, "Oh, Judy that was over a month ago, I'm sure he's forgotten all about it by now."

Giselle and Dawn gave her uncertain looks. The sheep said, "Fru, we are talking about Nicholas Wilde… he loves giving payback!"

"And Halloween is a great way to pull pranks." Giselle said.

"Exactly." gestured Judy, "so it would be better if I stay here until it's over."

Fru gave a sad sigh, she really wanted to spend the evening with all her friends but unless Judy felt sure that Nick wasn't going to pull something on her she wasn't going to go, suddenly an idea occurred to her.

"You want me to make sure that Nick doesn't do something stupid again?" questioned Finnick as he and Fru were sitting at a table in a café as the shrew had texted him to meet her there so she could talk to him.

"Hm-mm. You're his best friend, he'll listen to you."

He gave a scoff, "Not all the time."

She smiled, "Judy's the same way. I tell her something but she doesn't always listen."

He shook his head, "If they're so alike, how come they haven't fallen in love yet?"

She shrugged, "Who knows, sometimes it takes awhile for mammals to see love staring right at them in the face. In fact, sometimes it takes them years!"

"Well, they don't have years. Nick's going to graduate next year so if they want each other it'll have to be now or never."

"Judy just needs to see some good in him and Nick needs to stop teasing her so much."

He sighed, "It'll take a miracle to do that… but I'll see what I can do. If I got through I'll text you to let you know then it'll have to be up to you to convince Judy to come."

She smiled.

"Hey, if she doesn't want to come that's her problem!" Nick retorted while him and Fin were in the locker room after gym class was over.

"All I'm saying is, if you can promise not to do anything for the whole evening she'll be fine to come. Besides, I'm only doing this for Fru's sake."

"Fru?" his brow twitched up.

"And that stays between us or I bite your face off!"

Nick held his paws up, "Okay, fine. What you do with your love life is your business." he gave a small smirk seeing how that irritated his friend and quickly said, "So you're saying that I need to make a promise of not doing anything to Carrots for the entire evening, right?"

The fennec gave a single nod.

"And she'll come?"

"Yes."

Nick rubbed his neck and faced away from the fennec, he was thinking this over carefully. He hadn't seen Carrots since the day the graffiti showed up and she did not look happy to see him. He realized he really went too far when using that bug but somehow he knew an apology wasn't going to be enough for her. Maybe this was the only way he can get on the right track with her, he remembered the dream he had last month and how by showing his nicer side she finally trusted him more.

He held his paw to his face, Can't believe I'm relaying a dream… He turned back to Fin, "Alright, what do I have to do?"

"What is it you want to show me?" Judy questioned as she held her best friend in her paws while they were outside.

She smiled while pointing to the wall which two foxes had shown up then, "Him."

Judy looked and groaned, "Oh no… Fru, what have you done?"

"Just trust me, Judy."

The rabbit sighed and put on a force smile toward the taller fox, "Nicholas…"

"Carrots, uh, I mean Judy."

"Judy? You never used my name before." she said in suspicion, "What's your game…?"

Nick held his paws up, "No game, Judy, in fact I have no tricks, no name-calling, and no bugs this time around, instead I come with a peace offering." he held up a blueberry pie, "Gideon helped make this for me to give to you."

She eyed the pie suspiciously.

He made a slight chuckle, "It's not poisoned if that's what you're afraid of. But hey, that makes you a smart girl for being cautious of accepting treats from a fox that's has on occasion made things difficult for you."

Fru said, "I'll take a piece."

"There we go, offer the rest to your friends as proof I mean well."

Judy questioned, "You said Gideon made this, right?"

"Right."

She looked at Finnick who confirmed, "He did, I watched him make it in our school's kitchen."

She sighed and took the pie.

"Listen, Judy, I know what I did was wrong and I know an apology won't be enough…"

"Now who said I don't want an apology? I just didn't think you had the capability."

Finnick started laughing and said, "He doesn't!"

Nick gave an exasperated look, "Thank you, Fin… Yes, I don't say 'I'm sorry' very often but I am willing to do that just this once."

Her eyes widen a little and said, "Go on…"

Nick tugged at his collar as he suddenly felt very hot, he knew it was going to take all his strength to say this, "I'm… s-sorry… I'm sorry I ever planted that bug in your dorm. It was stupid and wrong. And I will never do something like that again."

There was a pause as they waited for Judy's answer but for the moment she seemed speechless. For she couldn't believe her own ears, he actually apologized!

"Uh, Carrots?" then he flinched forgetting he was trying to be nice.

But Judy didn't seem to care as she smirked, "Glad to see that there's still some of the Nick Wilde I know, or else I wouldn't believe you to be sincere. So much that I am actually willing to accept your apology."

The three gapped at this.

"But it's still going to take me a long time to forget your little stunt."

Nick smirked this time, "I wouldn't expect you to. So, I guess you won't be coming to the Haunted House since you can't trust me to try to not scare you."

"Oh, I'll be coming, in fact I give you permission to scare me!"

The foxes and Fru were taken back by surprise saying, "Really?"

"Sure, the reason I didn't want to go at first is because I didn't think you could pass up the opportunity to get back at me, but since you're willing to control yourself, I'll go. Besides it's a Haunted House we're supposed to get scared."

He smiled, "I'll take that as a challenge, Fluff!"

She kept smirking at him unaware someone had been watching them and was smirking right at her.