It was the next morning, or later the next morning as Stripes began to stir, rubbing sleep from her eyes with her paw remembering yesterday's adventure getting ready hearing Meg call her for breakfast, making the female raccoon kit excited, sliding down the banister landing on her feet, scampering into the kitchen sitting at the table.

"Somebody had a good night's sleep eh, after yesterday?" she said seeing her nod, knowing it being a bit colder being the end of November, hoping to have snow fun, seeing her mom in her forest ranger uniform making Stripes guess she was going to work.

"Yes, plus the oatmeal is good, since it is cold outside." Stripes told her.

Meg nodded knowing Stripes would probably go into the forest, to hang out with her new friend she had told her about last night, hoping she would be careful which she got.

"I will mom, you know that?" Stripes replied to her seeing her leave the house, making her excited and was going to the forest after packing her bag for the day, leaving the house, hoping her mom would have a good day, seeing Bert in hockey gear making her excited seeing some of his friends there.

"So this is Stripes that you were telling us about?" Ralph asked seeing Bert nod in reply.

"Yeah, she's new to the forest, you know?" Bert replied to him seeing Stripes shy.

"Hey we're pretty friendly here, well except for Cyril Sneer." Melissa said.

Stripes noticed the lake was frozen now, because of it being Winter, which she'd never seen before, living in a house which Beet, Cedric, Melissa and Ralph did not know, but was seeing Sylvia ice skating which she thought amazing seeing Cedric agree seeing Bert handing her hockey gear and ice skates, but she was a little unsteady from not doing this before.

"It's your first time on the ice, Stripes, you've never played hockey?" Bert asked her.

"Not really, I hope I can do it." Stripes told him seeing him nod.

"We can help you, learn, it is what friends do." Ralph replied.

"Thanks as this is new to me." Stripes said to her making her excited, because she had always wanted to learn to ice skate making Bert get it, helping her plus Ralph and Melissa were being encouraging seeing Stripes doing well, hoping they could teach her to play ice hockey.

"Yeah as we always play hockey every Winter, when the lake freezes over." Bert said.

They were having fun, playing ice hockey even Stripes, despite just getting used to ice skates, which Cedric related to, since he was not that good at hockey yet liked playing making Stripes grin hitting a slap shot into the net.

"Nice one, Stripes as you'll be a great hockey player, you know?" Bert said making Stripes smile at this.

"Thanks, as it was my first time playing hockey, you know?" Stripes replied to him, as they were playing.

After a while, they were having hot chocolate to warm up, after playing hockey for a long while, plus Stripes was curious making Melissa and Ralph get it, because Bert had told them where Stripes lived making her surprised.

"Yeah, Schafer told us a long time ago, it's cool." Bert replied to her.

Meg wondered why Stripes was so tired after she came home that night, guessing her kit had been having fun with her friend seeing the female raccoon kit nod, saying she'd been playing ice hockey and ice skating for the first time making Meg happy about that so was listening to Stripes telling her about her day.

"How was your day mom, see any cool animals?" Stripes asked her.

"It was good sweetie, and helped them hibernate during Winter." Meg said making Stripes impressed, because she was always curious about what her mom did everyday since she was a forest ranger, plus had explained to her about a forest ranger and what they did which she thought was cool, since Bert's friend Schafer lived with a forest ranger too.

"You should get ready for bed since you had a long day." Meg told her.

Stripes nodded going upstairs but was getting ready for bed, hoping that her new friends were alright, while getting into bed