A/N: Who didn't just love high school? Well I didn't. However everything is better with Zootopia. So regardless if you enjoyed high school or not, it's about to get a whole lot better. Welcome to my new story of teenage drama. Enjoy the semester.

Disclaimer: I do not own Zootopia. Yet. It's a work in progress. I also do not own High School which is impossible anyway. That's technically a governmental institution and only Disney is more intimidating than them. So Nick, Judy, Sharla, Gideon, and any other characters in the movie do not belong to me, nor do the idea of lockers, teachers, quizzes, exams, or cafeteria ladies and their awful fur nets.

Chapter 1 - First day back blues

"Hey Hopps! Lookin' good!"

Again, she thought. Every year it's the same crap over and over. Her entire life she had been a bit of an outcast. The odd duck who was obsessed with becoming a police officer. 'A bunny can't do that' she was told. 'It will get you killed' she heard repeatedly. 'Be a farmer like your brothers and sisters' was a particular favorite. It all but made her a pariah and, combined with her ungainly childhood body, floppy ears and large buck teeth, left her behind in the dating scene. Her mother tried to tell her it was just her 'awkward phase' and she'd grow out of it into a beautiful bunny that the boys would fall all over themselves for. She really didn't believe it, but then again she really didn't want to. Dating was never on her priorities since it would just be another obstacle between her and her dream. Being seen as less than desirable may have been a slight mark on her self-esteem but at least it kept others at arm's length, something which she did not mind in the slightest. And then life decided to throw a melon instead of a lemon.

In the summer right before her sophomore year, Judy sprouted. She gained several inches in height, her mouth grew around her teeth in a manner that made them rather fetching, and her ears with their black tips stood tall and firm. She went from a dud bomb to a bombshell in a matter of weeks. It made plenty of her sisters envious and her brothers get ready to fend off the desperate suitors they knew would come crawling after their little sister. However Judy did not change herself one bit. To her, looks weren't as important as character was. So when several of the more handsome bucks tried to win her over, she sent them and their arrogant personalities packing.

It didn't do much to gain her extra amounts of friends in high school but she didn't really care. Her true friends, some of them who had been there since she was no taller than a large carrot, were all she needed. With them by her side, she could face anything. Although the constant barrage of comments from the males at the track was certainly causing her to grind her teeth.

"Damn Hopps! Those shorts are tight! Givin' me a nice view of that a-" A stern look from a junior Hopps boy had the other junior buck cutting off mid-sentence and hurrying away. Judy sent her brother Harold a smile and a silent 'thank you' to which he replied with a nod and a smile of his own before turning his attention back to his girlfriend.

"I'd say you're getting some extra attention this year, Judy." Her best friend, a black wooled ewe named Sharla, sidled up next to the bunny and began to stretch her calves, much as she was already doing. "He was right though. Those track shorts really do accentuate your rear. Quite nicely, too."

"Why Sharla," Judy practically sang while teasing the now blushing sheep. "Are you getting all sweet on me?" Sharla let out an embarrassed bleat before waving her hooves in distress.

"N-no! I most certainly am not! I-!" She stopped as she watched her friend fall to her knees laughing hard enough to be unable to stand. "Oh why you-." Sharla jumped at her friend, the two of them tussling in the grass next to the track. Their little 'fight' lasted only a minute before they broke away, both now giggling madly. "You've been doing the same thing to me since fourth grade!"

"And I'll keep doing it to you because it works," Judy said with a grin splitting her face. "Not my fault you were raised without a censor and feel the need to lift your friend's self esteem." Sharla kicked a clod of grass at her friend only making Judy began laughing all over again, that was until the next round of bucks decided to try their luck at 'impressing' the young doe. Her butt seemed to be her best feature going by all of the shouts sent her way.

Bored and annoyed, Judy set off on jog around the field, her friend keeping pace right beside her. Track season didn't officially start for a few weeks, but the two mammals wanted to get back into the swing of things as it were. Both had kept up with their training regimen over the summer but it didn't hurt to step it up before tryouts. The feel of the running track beneath her foot wraps always helped Judy to unwind, the pounding of her paws matching her heartbeat in rhythm. Today though that rhythm was offset by her irritation and lack of focus.

"I can't believe my senior year has to start like this. Guys ogling my tail just like the last two years." Judy complained, rather frustrated. "You'd think they would have gotten the message by now that I'm not going to just jump into bed with the first good looking buck that whistles at me."

"Well honestly can you blame them?" Sharla was huffing a little heavier than Judy was, but the bunny's natural athletic form and benefit of her species gave her a larger amount of stamina over the sheep. "First off you are probably one of the hottest does in school. That's the popular opinion!" she practically shouted when Judy raised her brow in jest. "I'm not making that claim, dammit. Ugh, every time," she muttered. "Anyway, you've never agreed to more than a few dates which lead nowhere so not only are you beautiful, but you are unclaimed which makes your high school credit skyrocket."

Judy mulled that over a bit as they rounded their first turn. It was true she had rarely ever dated and the ones she did go on had ended in disaster with either the buck getting fresh and then getting a black eye, or her leaving them at the table when they dismissed her dream job of being a cop. So far not a single buck, or doe for that matter, at Bunnyburrow High had really caught her interest. She had had a fling with her feline friend Bobby Catmull in early junior year, but while it had been a fun couple of weeks, neither of them felt that 'spark' and so parted, though still remaining very close friends. And Judy knew Gareth, Sharla's only slightly older brother, and the huge crush he had on her, but that was never destined to go anywhere which she made clear to him, unwilling to string him along.

"Hey Sharla. Think you'll beat Deerbrooke this year?" The smooth and charismatic voice that flowed to their waiting ears made Judy cringe. And then there's Nick friggin Wilde. Her silent wishes that her friend would ignore the honeyed words and keep jogging went unacknowledged, the black ewe stopping in her tracks and her hooves coming up to hide her cheeks which were blushing hard enough to be seen even through the dark wool.

"H-hey, Nick." Sharla, much like almost every other girl in the school, prey and pred alike, was smitten with the lean red fox. It wasn't their fault though. Besides being ridiculously attractive, the tod seemed able to win over anyone and everyone he wanted to. "I-I think we have a good shot this year. My c-cousin Stacy is joining the team and she's like super fast."

"That's cool." Green eyes tracked over the ewe before continuing on to the gray mammal slightly ahead of her. He smirked at the way the bunny staunchly refused to turn around even though her friend had stopped. Dropping the soccer ball he currently held in his paws, Nick began juggling it with his hind paws, the movement fluid and well controlled. The sight of Judy's ears twitching with each kick made his grin larger. "Well hello, Carrots. I almost didn't see you there without that brooding and scowling face you normally send my way. Warming up to me, Hopps?"

How Nick Wilde came to be Judy's arch-nemesis was almost text book. Judy had been top of her class in academics, star of the track team, suddenly elevated to a popularity reserved for the beautiful and untouchable. Though she acted indifferent to all the attention from both bucks and does alike, she would be lying if she said she wasn't occasionally flattered from it all. And then he showed up.

A few weeks into her junior year, rumors started filtering through the school about a new student, a predator, moving to Bunnyburrow. Now, new students weren't an overall rarity considering how large the population was and that out of town lapines would sometimes move countryside, but a new predator family moving into town was worth weeks of gossip. There was a lot of speculation on what species and gender the new mammal would be, so much in fact that students were dismissed early one afternoon since the teachers could not get anyone to pay attention to the lessons. A few days later the rumors finally stopped, because in through the double doors walked a red fox tod, head held high and with a swagger in his step. The amount of girls who fell over themselves from the wink he sent them was incalculable. Before anyone had even learned his name, Nick Wilde had taken over the school.

At first Judy was indifferent to the tod. She held no ill will towards foxes, even though her father had tried to instill caution in all of his children about predators. After a few classes with him she even found herself admiring the fox. He was an even match for her in the classroom, answering questions with the same thorough knowledge as she did herself. It was when the teachers started directing questions towards him rather than her that she began to waver in her opinion. When he was asked to help demonstrate chemistry experiments or solve higher tier math problems on the board rather than her, she would feel a spike of irritation. Eventually her eye would start to twitch whenever she heard the newest gossip of the fox floating around the lunchroom. And then he had showed up to soccer tryouts and demonstrated he could dominate in athletics as well.

It would seem to be a match made in heaven. The most popular tod and doe. Best looking. Best in academics. Stars in their respective sports. But instead it became a rivalry for the ages. Nick, while deliriously charming, was also cocky and enjoyed riling up his fellow students. Soon Judy became his favorite target, something that drove her nuts, which seemed it would continue into the new year as well.

Spinning around, Judy was sorely tempted to march over to the fox and kick him, but as she had done since day one of meeting the insufferable tod she kept it to words. "Get over yourself, Wilde. Sharla and I are training so why don't you and your teammates head over to the field and play with your balls. Oh and I suppose the soccer ball, too." Judy resumed jogging, her own lips turning up into a smile as she heard a lot of ribbing headed the fox's way after her put down, his team and many spectators calling him out. She had to admit that felt good. Sharla joined up with her a few moments later.

"He didn't even flinch, girl! But I swear that smirk of his grew. Think maybe that fox has a little crush on you," Sharla teased, bumping her hip into her bunny friend.

"Oh puh-leeze. Wilde? Him and I have been at each others throats since he transferred here last year." It was definitely true that there had been a large amount of tension between the two classmates during their junior year. Other than Sharla's comment, not a single student would ever think the fox and bunny were interested in the other, especially not after Judy sabotaged Nick's prank on the senior prom last year which resulted in a week's detention. Nor after he rigged the shower head in the girls bathroom to dye Judy's fur purple after a track meet. It had taken nearly a month to wear out but thankfully it was a color that matched her eyes so it wasn't too horrible in the end.

"I'm just saying. Half your sisters would probably kill to get a date with Nick Wilde." While maybe a bit of an exaggeration, it was no secret that even though he was a red fox, there was no lack of eligible females secretly, or sometimes not so secretly, wishing to get a shot with him. Prey or predator, it did not matter. Nick Wilde's charm was a powerful weapon.

"They wouldn't even like him if he wasn't good at soccer." Having made it another lap around the two paused to grab a much needed drink. They watched as the soccer team practiced over at the next field, both of them zeroing in on watching that very fox juggling the ball with some very impressive movements before passing it on. "I really wish he wasn't so good but then we'd lose to Deerbrooke again and I can't take their smug, pompous faces whenever they win."

"I don't even care that he even plays soccer," Sharla said dreamily. "I only care if he would like to duck behind the bleachers some time."

"Oh c'mon Sharla. I know you don't have anything against foxes, but you aren't after Nick and we both know it. You only want to make out with Nick because you're too scared to ask the other canine you've had your eye on for the past few years and want to make him jealous enough to ask you out." The ewe's eyes went wide and she scrambled to cover Judy's mouth with her hooves before the bunny danced away, laughing. "We both know lean isn't what's on your mind. You like the larger boys, don't you?"

"Judy," Sharla whined. "C'mon girl, don't."

"So when are you gonna ask Gideon to the prom? I know it's only the first day of senior year, but one can never ask too early." Taking off like a shot, the gray rabbit streaked across the field, heading for the safety of the locker rooms with an irate black sheep right behind her.

The trip home was uneventful, as per the norm. Bunnyburrow was a rather idyllic place in that crime was very low and rarely did anything happen, especially out in the farmlands but it gave Judy plenty of time to think on her upcoming year. She knew that to get into the college program she wanted, Zootopia University's elite Criminal Justice program, she would need to continue the same high grades and academic records she had kept up all through high school. While she only needed a high school diploma to become a police officer, a bachelors would get her on the fast track to detective, something she had dreamed of for years.

Feeling the weight of her backpack, she couldn't help but groan slightly at how much homework she had been assigned. First day, too. I swear I'm gonna beat Joshua. He told me seniors never get homework the first week. She tilted her head wondering if there was a way she could force him to write her three page report on the history of Zootopian agriculture. With her workout after school, she arrived well after most of her siblings had already gotten home. She was thankful for that since the pile-up at the door when two hundred kits tried to enter all at once was extremely annoying and usually led to more than a few shoves. As it was, only twenty or so bunnies were traipsing through the door, their after-school activities having ended around the same time as hers. Lost in their own conversations the group headed down into the burrow halls while Judy hung back.

"Hey hon." Her mother, a middle aged but surprisingly spry doe considering she gave birth to two hundred and seventy six children, stood at the kitchen sink, washing a mound of vegetables for the family's dinner. "How was your first day?" Dropping her bag on the table with a loud thud, Judy collapsed into a chair with a groan. "That bad, huh?"

"Well, it's not that it was overly horrible or anything." Which was true enough. Save for the few mammals trying to hit on her down at the track that afternoon and a few more during class time, she had enjoyed a relatively laid back and enjoyable day. "We just got a ridiculous amount of homework for a first day. I'm probably going to be in my room all night after dinner trying to get this all done."

"Well does all of it have to be done tonight? I don't want you pushing yourself too hard, bun bun." Judy rolled her eyes at the nickname her mother insisted on calling her. It was cute when she was five. It was a show of affection when she was ten. But at seventeen it was mortifying and thankfully she hadn't used it in public in a while.

"While I would love to push it down the line I'm probably going to get twice as much tomorrow. And Math Club starts next week so I need to not be weighed down by all of this." Extracurriculars went over great with colleges and while that had originally been her reason for joining the club, she soon found an enjoyment in it, testing her mind much as track worked to strengthen her body. Her mother smiled and tossed her a stick of celery. Though carrots were the preferred snack, Bonnie knew that too many so close to dinner would ruin her daughter's appetite.

"Here you go then, bun bun. Why don't you go start. Dinner will be ready in about an hour." Judy slung her bag back over her shoulder and began gnawing on the celery while heading down the first floor hallway. She passed a few of her siblings who also resided on that floor, most of them older and in the local college. There were a few benefits to having the older kits sleeping on the ground floor such as not disturbing the rest of the warren when having to leave very early or coming in rather late due to jobs and evening classes.

Giving some of her siblings a nod, she pushed open the door to her own room and put her bulging backpack into the desk chair near the bed. She knew she should get started, but the idea of laying out everything just to stop in an hour's time was enough to give her a headache. Instead she turned and left, heading deeper into the burrows towards the family living area.

One of the traditions of the first day of school was to gather together and watch a movie to relax after the pressure of getting back to school. As she was getting home later than the rest of her siblings, Judy was only able to catch the second half of the selected film. It was alright though because while she adored 'Wreck-it-Rhino' she also knew it by heart. She really didn't get much time to enjoy it however. As soon as she sat down she was bombarded with questions from several of her sisters all wanting to know if she had finally given a buck the time of day (or doe one of them suggested "Hey I'm not judging"). Unfortunately for her, the conversation took a turn when one of them mentioned seeing Nick talking to her.

She groaned under her breath as the group surrounding her started in on how good looking and amazing the fox was. It soon became an argument about who of them would best be suited for the fox to date. Can't even escape this at home. Oh well, she thought grimly. Only nine months until graduation.

Having a room upstairs on the ground floor was a privilege as well as a responsibility. Every bedroom deep into the burrow had one thing in common. It didn't matter if it was decorated in sports posters or handsome bucks from the movies. Pink, blue, rainbow or plaid wallpaper. It could have anything and anyone in it. But none of them had windows. Windows were what Stu called 'the bane of parenthood'. With so many children in their teens, the amount of kits trying to sneak out of the house was a nightmare so only the most responsible Hopps members were allowed those rooms.

Judy was one of the very few still in high school that was allowed that privilege because she followed the rules. She never bowed to the pressure from her siblings to let them sneak out. She had promised her father when she moved in that she would never let any of her siblings use her window to leave the house. And so when the window slid open, the only one seen leaving was a gray bunny with black tipped ears slipping out and into the yard. I promised my siblings wouldn't get out, and so none of them have. While a stickler for the law, Judy was also someone to exploit the loopholes. Gotta know 'em to stop 'em, she would say to justify it but the truth was she just liked being out.

Digging her hindpaws into the cool grass, Judy looked up into the darkened sky that was slowly filling with stars. She loved being out in the night, a rarity for bunnies who normally preferred to be up with the sun. Something about the moon shining on her fur made her feel content, as if she was the only one in the world. Looking at her watch, she gave a start noticing it was nearly midnight and knowing she only had a small amount of time to spend out in the dark, she dug in her paws and took off into the woods.

She never felt freer than when she was running past the trees with her ears flowing behind her and the air rushing through her fur. Even the breathlessness from her feet moving faster than her lungs felt like a release. And in the shadow of the trees where the moonlight peaked through the gaps Judy felt as if she were thrust into a world of fantasy and adventure, where any moment an elf or sprite might jump out from behind a tree.

"Whoa. What are you doing out here, Carrots?"

That voice. Of course it would be that voice. She slowed to a stop and dropped her head, sighing deeply before straightening up and turning towards a nearby tree where the red tod was leaning up against the bark. "Wilde. What are you doing here? It's midnight. And in the woods, no less."

He gave her an amused look before tapping himself in the chest. "Nocturnal, remember? Foxes like the nightlife. And since Bunnyburrow doesn't exactly have one of those, I come out to the woods. Embrace my 'inner savage' as it were. Nothing feels quite as good as letting loose out in nature. Get a good howl in."

Judy rolled her eyes. "That's wolves, Nick." Technically foxes could howl she knew, but it often came out more of a bark than a true howl.

"Eh, you say canid, I say canid."

"That's the same pronunciation, Nick." Judy rolled her eyes again, making her wonder how many times a day she actually would do that because of him.

"True enough, Carrots," he chuckled. A twinkle shined in his brilliant emerald eyes before he opened his arms wide. "Now come here, Fluff so I can do what I've been dying to do all day."

With a gleeful hop in her step and a giant grin on her face, Judy sprinted towards the fox and leapt into his arms, their lips coming together while each let out a sigh of contentment.