Frida growled as she walked through the woods, leaving the cubs with Diego. She needed a break from it all. She babysat the cubs, she bathed them, made sure they were happy and taken care of. All Diego did was bring them food. Frida was doing most of the work.

"Frida, hey!"

Shira smiled as she walked toward her cousin. Frida looked at her and sighed as she tried to calm down. Shira was still single and seemed to be enjoying every minute of it. She had no responsibilities to worry about, much unlike Frida.

"Hey, Shira", she said. "How's it going?"

"Just about to go on a hunt", Shira answered.

"Mind if I join you? I need to get out for a while."

Shira looked at her cousin a little worried. This was the first time Frida ever asked to go hunting to get away from her family. She nuzzled her softly as she looked at her.

"Frida, is everything okay?" Shira asked. "You seem pretty down about something."

"Just the joys family life getting to me…" she shrugged with a sigh. "I could really use some time to myself away from Diego and the cubs."

Shira's ears flattened against her head as she started to walk again. She hoped things between her and Diego were going to be okay. They had one of the best relationships anyone had ever seen. There could be no two tigers who were more in love and meant for each other than Frida and Diego.

"Well, you can go ahead and hunt with me then", Shira said.

"Thank you", Frida sighed as she walked with her cousin.

Diego sighed as he relaxed with Manny. The cubs had run off to play, allowing him time to himself. He didn't know where Frida was. She had just up and left him with the cubs. Diego shrugged it off and looked at Manny who was complaining about his own problems. The two males smiled as they hyraxes began serving drinks. They had made a nice bond with the small creatures who were happy to help them with anything they needed.

"Women", Manny scoffed.

"Yeah, women", Diego sighed. "What about them?"

"I don't get them. Like Ellie. Life's great with her. There's no surprises, nothing ever changes. But then, today… she giggled. Does Frida ever just giggle?"

Diego looked ahead when he heard the roar of a saber. He sighed relieved to see Frida with Shira who were busy hunting a deer. He watched the two females snarl and growl as they chased their prey.

"Shira's not a big giggler", Diego shrugged. "Frida on some occasions can."

"Well, Ellie giggled", Manny said. "And then she wiggled. It was weird."

He gave an example of what happened, acting girlish for a moment before bumping into Diego.

"Women…" the men sighed.

"Hello?" Sid called out.

"And speaking of weird", Diego rolled his eyes.

Manny and Diego turned to see Sid stumbling their way. His eye and his nose looked infected and irritated. He seemed to have been crying. The two of them watched as Sid bumped into Manny's butt.

"Oh, hi Manny", he said. "Ew! Your breath is awful!"

"What happened to you?" Diego asked looking at him.

"Oh, nothing", Sid said. "Everything is great. Fabulous!"

"Let me guess… she dumped you?"

No one could say they didn't see it coming. Sid was really desperate to find a mate. He was the only male in the herd that was still single.

"What is wrong with me?" Sid cried. "Everybody has somebody. All I got are my boyish looks and this mariachi band."

Sid was really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Everyone knew he was desperate, but they didn't think he was insane enough to put together a band like that for a date. Sid continued to cry as he picked up some poison ivy and blew his nose on it, as well as wiping his eyes.

"So burning and itchy!" he moaned.

"Come on", Manny said knocking it out of his hands. "Let's go get you cleaned up."