Dumb Fox

Chapter 11: Looking for Carrots

On a hot afternoon at Savanna Central, a ramshackle sky blue truck moved slowly through the busy streets of one of the Zootopia's hottest districts. Inside it there were three rabbits, an adult male one wearing an orange cap, light green shirt and some worn overalls; a similar age female with a pink checked shirt and navy blue jeans, and finally her daughter, a young bunny of about 24 years old wearing a light blue shirt and black yoga pants, who saw with great sadness the streets she once wandered as a police officer, or as a meter maid; she had remembered with melancholy her first meet with a certain sly mammal not long ago.

   "Cheer up, Judy," the mother of the doe said softly. "I know you don't feel very well about how it ended, but don't think it's your fault, sometimes things don't go as planned."

   "Yes Jude the Dude, your mother is right," his father said, still paying attention behind the wheel, "but look on the bright side, you already have lived your dream in the big city and now you have plenty of free time!"

   "Stu!" Bonnie reprimanded her husband.

   "What, what did I say? It's the truth..."

   "Dad is right," Judy said, unencouraged, "both were right since the very start, it was foolish to think that a bunny could do more than a carrot farmer."

   "Darling, don't say so." her mother grabbed her paw, "You tried your best, maybe you had a bad experience, but you came to Zootopia on your own and, I'm ashamed to admit it, but you did it all by yourself even though nobody, not even us, supported you. You shouldn't feel less important because of it, we love you no matter what Judy, whether you are or not a bunny cop."

   "We couldn't be more proud of you, Jude."

   "Thanks mom, you too dad. I really appreciate it."

   Despite her parents' encouraging words, Judy felt like a fraud; the bunny couldn't stop thinking about her words had been the beginning of a great wave of discrimination in the whole city and now, she was doing something had rarely done: Giving up. And the worst part she was leaving the city without being able to amend things with a certain sly fox; she didn't know how to find him and apparently, he never looked for her, probably hates her, she told herself.

   'I wonder...' Judy thought, 'What is he doing right now? Does he keep selling Pawpsicles? Is he scamming other mammals? Or perhaps... Would he have changed his life? For his sake, I hope so, although frankly, I don't know what to think anymore, lately, I've ruined everyone's life here: the mammals of this city, my coworkers at the ZPD, Mayor Bellwether and... Nick...'

   "Nick..." the purple-eyed girl whispered.

   "Who's Nick?" his mother asked.

   "What? Did I say it out loud?"

   "Nick?" her father asked suddenly, "Haven't you met a seductive buck in this bizarre city, haven't you, miss?"

   "Stu!"

   "What? I'm curious. If this is the case, I'd like to know him; I wanna be sure if he's the worthy Hopps family's successor."

   "Stu enough! Don't be indiscreet."

   "No, it's nothing like that." interrupted the youngest bunny, "He's... he's just a friend I met here."

   Judy looked to the landscape dejected as remembered in these streets she had met a sly but very noble fox who had changed her life perception completely, could almost imagining the place where they first met, Jumbeaux's Café; actually was watching it at that moment.

   'Was it really here?' she wondered, surprised to see the same place she was thinking, 'Nick will be around? Impossible, I don't think so, it's too much coincidence, at this time he must be at Tundra Town, if he is still into it...'