Chapter 31
A/N: Hello all! Well, here we are again with another chapter! In this chapter, we continue from when Nick asked Judy a question. Sorry if it might seem short this time around! What will the question be? Well, let's read and find out! I hope you enjoy reading it!
Nick slowly put his bunny back down onto the floor and held her paw tightly, looking straight into her beautiful eyes, quenching his thirst for her beauty. "Judy, you are the bestest thing that has ever happened to me since I met Finnick. And that was a long time ago. I don't think you cannot make me any happier than I already am. I mean, I have everything to survive and cherish for the rest of my life. I have you, a great job and the most best thing of all, we have a child in there that's going to start a family. The best family in the world." Nick then reached behind his back pocket of his jeans and dug through them, whilst still looking into her eyes, the soothing music still playing accompanying the mood.
Judy smiled and kept her paw in Nick's own. "Oh, Nick. I don't know how you could make me any happier either." she said with a warm giggle. "You're such a charmer and handsome mammal, I cannot ask for anything more."
"But, there is a big but. Something I always wanted to say to you for the time I have known you for." he took a deep breath and kneeled on one leg, pulled out a small dark blue box and slowly opened it to reveal an emerald studded ring lying comfortably on the small pillow.
Judy gasped quietly and put a paw over her mouth as her eyes widened. He was asking it. He really was asking for it. The love of her life that she first spoke to him as a conning, sly fox that she assumed to have lived in a box under a bridge, then poured her real feelings to his unconscious body at the hospital, then had a night of love and romance that resulted in a growing baby was now proposing to her. It was all coming back to her and she clasped her small paws together.
Nick started to become nervous but then recomposed his wild thoughts that are whizzing through his head. 'Here we go, Wilde. Do not screw this up. You only have once chance. Go on and ask the question!' his conscious said to him. He took one last deep breath and then looked up into her eyes and smiled as he asked the life question impressively without stuttering or pausing.
"Judith Hopps… will you marry me?"
As soon as he popped the question, Judy started to feel light headed. She could just flop right into Nick's arms and not regret it. She could not believe that this was happening. She looked down at Nick, still smiling and one one knee, presenting the glistening ring in the box. She then started to breath heavy and her heart heated fast in passion and happiness. Slowly, she took Nick's paw, a small tear of joy running down her soft cotton like cheek and answered the awaiting fox.
"Oh, Nick… yes Nick! Yes I will!" she said quietly, her voice on edge and hugged Nick tightly and brought him up to his feet.
Nick smiled wider and his wide eyes started to glisten softly with his tears welling up. He then took her right paw, took out the ring in the box and slowly slipped it onto her index finger whilst she looked at his paw move up her finger. Nick then closed his eyes, brought Judy close to him and kissed the bunny passionately, his paws holding her own.
Judy closed her own eyes and eased into the loving kiss. It was then she started to imagine the future in the vast freedom that was her mind. She saw Nick, well dressed in a garden of blossoming trees that the petals fell out their shoulders. She then wrapped her arms around his neck and tilted her head to deepen the kiss.
They embraced this position for around thirty seconds until they both pulled away, panting heavily whilst looking into their interlocking stare that their eyes possessed.
"Oh, Nicholas… I never knew you were ever going to ask me that!" said Judy whilst caressing his back. "How do you feel?"
Nick brought her closer to his body, his paws on her waist as he pressed his nose against her own. "Judy, I feel more than lucky now. I feel like the happiest, luckiest and greatest mammal in all of the world, let alone Zootopia just because I have you, my future wife!" he said with a warm smile and kissed her lips softly again. "Now, how about we celebrate?" he said as he pulled out an expensive looking bottle of French champagne from the very back of his fridge. "Care to join me in opening the bottle?"
Judy quickly skittered to Nick as soon as he finished his sentence and stood behind him. She wrapped her arms around her fox's firm torso and held the neck of the tinted green bottle that matched the colour of his pools and popped the cork. It fizzed from the mouth of the bottle to the fuzzy grey paw as it slid down her wrist, giggling softly and tears of pure joy started to leak from her eyes keeping the other half of her life close to her.
Soon, they were sipping the ol' bubbly stuff giggling from the infectious fizz and love that they lived through the whole night. Judy was being careful with what she drunk, especially alcohol so she had half a glass of it to keep her baby on the safe side. She vowed to have a coffee before bed and have even better dreams to look forward to. Nick might had a bit too much because he was stumbling a bit, but not drunk enough that would lead him to slurring his sentences. Judy thought it was amusing to see his tipsy side and was joking and smiling whilst she was trying to keep him on his feet. She was too happy and having too much fun to even care about anything in the whole wide world, except for one fact that was now looming over her mind.
"Nicky?" she began putting her empty glass on the table with a tiny ting sound and walked to to the coffee machine. "What do you think my parents would reflect about us getting married?" she added switching it on and put a mug on the raised platform of the now whirring machine. "I mean, we haven't told them yet about our baby and now we're getting married."
Nick seemed to have followed her to the machine and wrapped his paws around her waist. "Hey, baby. Don't worry about it." he replied with an assuring smile that would let the sun shine and accompanied it with a warm kiss to her cheek. "Your parents love me, I seen them how they act. All you worry about is your father but he slowly grew to me. Just trust me, it'll be fine as wine."
Judy smiled and quickly hugged him tightly in a warm embrace, nuzzling into his warm chest. "You always know how to make me feel better with those words of yours."
"I try, babe." he said as he brushed her ears back and took his one last sip of bubbly and placed his glass next to hers, following a soft but fizzy kiss from the fox. "All we need to do now, on our priority list is to plan this wedding and worry about this little stinker in there." He gave her a soft poke to the stomach with his finger which she giggled in response like a little schoolgirl. He then placed his paw on her belly and gently rubbed it whilst looking into her eyes, then to her abdomen. "My, he or she is getting big, isn't it?"
Judy nodded subtly with a smile and put her emerald studded paw on top of his that was resting on her as he continued to rub it softly. "Why I believe it is! I'm going to get a bit of a bump and I might not fit in shirts like these for a while… I might lose my figure."
Nick chuckled softly and looked deep into her eyes with a small warm blaze in them. "You'll look beautiful and continue to be stunning no matter how you look, Judith. All I know is I want to stay with the mammal of my dreams forever. Those mesmerising purple eyes will always shine with her hoppy and can-do attitude and I can promise you that."
She giggled and felt his paw slip into the opening of her shirt between the buttons, caressing the little but noticeable bump. "You ever going to stop making promises to me?"
"Nope." he simply said
"Well I might have to get a notebook to fill them in. A big notebook." she replied with a small giggle.
"I'm your notebook. I'm your life. You're my life. My heart, my darling, my light, my angel and a whole lot more." he listed and gave her a soft but lengthy collision to each others lips whilst still holding her paw and caressing her belly underneath her shirt with his other free paw. Soon he pulled away with the familiar sight of the bridge of their saliva connecting to each others lips. Nick chuckled and placed his paw on her cheek and stared into her perfect eyes. "I love you. With all my heart."
She smiled and stood on one leg on her tip-toes. "I love you too, baby." she added a kiss to the sentence and giggled. "Shall we go to the cloud that is number nine? In other words, the bed?"
Nick chuckled, a bit louder than normal but that was because he thought that was a good attempt at a joke. "Oh Judy, you're so cheesy."
"I try." she cleverly said, referencing to what he remarked on a few minutes ago.
Nick picked up Judy in the same bridal carry he took her to the bedroom an hour ago but with one small difference, they are fiancé and fiancée. Engaged. Judy having a ring on her finger made the sight all the more beautiful. Nick tapped the door closed with his foot and gently laid his bunny onto the soft mattress, starting to strip her from her clothes and left her in her undergarments. Nick followed suite and was left in his boxers and shuffled close to his future wife and smiled with heavy eyelids, holding her paw and looked at the ring that resided on her index finger.
"How did I get this lucky to have the most beautiful mammal in the world?" he asked and brought her closer by the waist, feeling the warm of her belly against his.
"It's called luck for a reason, sweetheart." she replied with a gentle brush against his muzzle, burying her head into the crooks of his neck and her ears going limp.
Nick's heart was beating fast with love and accomplishment. He did it. He has the love of his life next to her with a engagement ring on her. He felt like he could die and never regret what he done, but he wants to stay here forever and grow old with her. He could see it now. Successful kids. A great job to work for and forever being in their lives. "Thank you for choosing me, Judy Hopps." he finished as he closed his eyes.
Judy emitted her cute giggle, a bit muffled from Nick's coarse fur. "Thank you for choosing me to be in your life forever too, Nicholas Wilde."
Nick stroked her ears softly and slowly drifted off to sleep. They are going to have a great night's sleep before work knowing that they are finally engaged. The sky twinkled softly as a bright star glowing in the maze of space stood out above Zootopia. Three stars next to each other burned brightly, two big ones dominated the sky as a small one twinkled softly.
A/N: O-M- GOODNESS! They're both engaged! The future is looking bright for the both of them and their little baby! Next chapter will be out soon! My exams are still underway so I might not be on the website for a while. Wish me luck! I love you all! Stay fluffy! -RetractedEmotions
Nick W. & Judy H.
Engaged on 06/06/2017