The sound of the coach blowing his whistle echoed throughout the large gym hall where his students had been playing a very competitive game of dodgeball. The herbivore students and the carnivore students were pitted against each other this time around as the coach wanted to teach the students the strengths and weaknesses of both of them to relieve some of the tensions felt by the two factions following the recent events at the school. It became extremely clear that the coach hadn’t thought it through as soon as the match began and the first throw was in the hands of a tall eagle on the carnivore team. It didn’t take very long after that for things to become too chaotic for the coach to supervise over, which lead to the big bull blowing the whistle on the lanyard around his neck.

‘Beeeeeeeeeeep!’

“Alright, that’s enough! Stop!” he shouted at the students who were throwing balls at each other with pent up anger that caused them to not quite think about their actions and strategize like the coach expected them to do.

“All of you, get up, put the balls away, and hit the showers, gym class is over.”

“But coach, we still have two full periods… What are we supposed to do?” asked one of the more athletic zebras on the herbivore team.

The coach furrowed his brow, clearly annoyed, “You all can go to the library and study, something… And all of you find a study buddy from the other team! You all are going to get along with each other one way or another,” he grumbled. The students quickly dispersed and made their way to the locker room and showers.

Yulia, a small bunny among the other herbivores, let out a soft sigh as she popped open her locker and began stripping out from her school athletic uniform to head into the showers. Being a small herbivore meant that she was often overlooked and that she was usually last to use the showers in the locker room, not that she minded, it was a lot easier to wash up without a dozen pair of eyes watching you do so. After stripping down to nothing, the bunny wrapped herself in a towel and made her way to one of the many unoccupied showers as the rest of the female students, both carnivore and herbivore started getting back into their student uniforms and leaving to head to the library. She quietly stood underneath one of the many showerheads, peeled her towel off, hung it on the wall, and turned the water on. The small bunny let out a soft sigh as the warm shower water hit her and matted down the fur all over her body.

She didn’t spend too long in the shower, which made sense since her gym class didn’t last the usual two-hour run and she barely broke a sweat during dodgeball since she wasn’t anyone’s prime target. Yulia turned off the water and grabbed her towel to dry herself with it. She then moved back to her locker and got into her uniform; a long-sleeved white button-up blouse, a dark blue skirt, knee-height socks, and a blue tie that matched the skirt. She spent around five minutes getting it all on and another minute or two folding her sleeves up and doing her tie in a simple Windsor knot. Once done, she had a look at herself in the little mirror installed on her locker door before, a look of content spread across her face and she slammed the locker door shut before she walked back out into the gym. Once she entered the gym, she found it completely empty; the lights were all off and not even the coach was there anymore. A large ray of sunlight that came in from one of the windows on the roof kept the gymnasium lit enough for the rabbit to be able to make her way across the shiny wooden floor. Once she began walking on that waxed floor, she realized she probably should have waited until she was at the door before she put on her socks.

“Hrmp. Well, darn,” the little lagomorph’s nose scrunched up as she struggled to keep both her footing and pacing as she tried crossing the gym floor. Her legs wobbled and she quickly tried to grab the “GO TIGERS!” sign on the bottom of the bleachers, but it was too late. Her feet slid forward with almost zero friction and she fell backward onto the hardwood floor with a loud thud.

“Hyah!”

‘Thmph!’

The bunny fell onto the floor and her legs kicked up into the air in a cartoonish fashion.

“Ow…” she grumbled as she looked up at the ceiling, defeated. She decided that she was going to lie there for a little bit. The library wasn’t going to go anywhere, and it wasn’t like she was going to be able to muster up the courage to ask that panther guy she fancied to be her study partner anyway… So, there was no harm in just basking in her own pathetic-ness while no one was watching. At least she thought there wouldn’t be anyone watching her.

“Still not brave enough to ask that guy out, huh?” a familiar voice reached the bunny’s ears and made her jump and turn around frantically to figure out where it came from. She looked left, right, and tilted her head up to look behind her towards the locker rooms, but saw no one. Then she felt a clawed finger tap at her ankles and looked down at her feet.

It was a tigress, a fellow student, her older sister Alex.

Alex smiled at her as she squatted down and watched as her bunny sister lie there helpless on the floor. “Do you need some help getting up? That was a spectacular fall if I ever saw one,” she chuckled and reached her hand out towards her fallen sister. Still slightly jumpy from how her sister revealed herself, like a true carnivore stalking its prey, she huffed and puffed before she took her sister’s hand and pulled herself up from the floor.

“How did you know I was thinking about doing that? Have you been hiding in the gym this whole time? And why are you wearing your gym uniform?” Yulia let out a soft grunt as she pulled herself up with her sister’s help. She breathed out an exhausted sigh as she sat up.

Her sister shook her head and chuckled. “I have gym class after you do on Fridays, remember? And nope, Mr. Bullsworth pulled exactly the same thing with my class, had us play carnivore v. herbivore as some sort of tension reliever... I don’t know what he expects to happen,” the tigress shrugged her shoulders. “So, he tells us to go to the library, pair up with someone from the other team, and study together… Naturally, I’d think you’d want to get all cozy up in those study booths with your carnivore boy-crush. What was his name? Sp-.”

“AHH! SHH! Alex don’t say his name! Someone could be listening!” the rabbit panicked and interrupted her sister before she could name-drop this panther boy her little sister had the hots for.

“You’re funny, but you did want to get all cozy with him, didn’t ya?” Alex laughed as she sat down.

Yulia’s face went cherry red, Alex didn’t even need her to say anything to confirm her suspicions.

“Oh my god… My sister has a crush on a dangerous carnivore boy…” Alex chuckled and poked at her sister’s legs with her clawed finger again. “I was just guessing there, from the way you look at him, but oh my god, what a scandal! What would mom think!”


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