Hera's POV

Poor Dionysus. He's got serious colds since he wouldn't want to come out of the Poseidon's pool yesterday. Poseidon threw a pool party since it was his birthday yesterday and invited all his friends and relatives. Little Dionysus swam almost the whole day. And now he's got colds, clogged nose, which caused him not to breathe well.

After a couple of minutes, I heard his cute little snore, to which I assume he was soundly asleep. I placed him on his bed and pulled up his covers.

"Sweet dreams," I whispered as I kissed his forehead. He looks such an angel when he's asleep.

I took one last glance at him and made my way to the door, opened it lightly then went downstairs to see my dear husband, scratching his head as he thinks of a way to settle down the house.

By the way, our house is a three-storey house with 7 bedrooms (1st- me and Zeus, 2nd- Hermes and Ares, 3rd- Athena and Artemis, 4th- only Aphrodite. She needs a lot of room for her numerous clothes, 5th- Apollo and Hephaestus, 6th- Dionysus, 7th- guest room), 3 bathrooms (one each level), an attic room for Apollo's instruments and other extra stuff we don't usually need, and of course kitchen, living room & garage.

I think I need to buy Tylenol for Zeus, and maybe later for me too.

"What is going on here?" I asked Zeus as I saw Demeter and Apollo chase Hermes like cops chasing after an escaped criminal.

"Well, Apollo blames Hermes for eating his chocolates so Apollo chased Hermes around the house. Demeter here was baking cookies then Hermes grabbed a couple. So now they're chasing Hermes like mad people," Zeus explained as Hermes hit a vase. It almost fell to the ground but Demeter caught it on time and she placed it back on the coffee table.

Just as Hermes pass by me, I grabbed the collar of his shirt and blocked Apollo and Demeter. I turned to the three.

"Care to explain what happened?"

"He ate my chocolates!", "He took my cookies!". Apollo and Demeter complained at the same time. Just when I'll turn to Hermes, he wasn't there. Then I spotted him climbing up the stairs gently, careful not to let the boards creak.

"Come back here young man."

He cringed. He slowly turned his head back to us. I pointed to the spot next to me, signaling him to come near me. He walked slowly, head facing down the floor. He was still obviously sweating of fear.

"Hermes, why would you do such a thing?"

"Mom, I was hungry!"

"You're always hungry," Demeter cut in.

"Hey guys!" We heard Aphrodite come down the stairs, her hair wrapped in a towel, "Did I miss something?"

"Oh not much," Apollo replied sarcastically, "Only Hermes taking my chocolates and eating Demeter's cookies."

"Oh, well, that is so Hermes," she giggled as she grabbed a copy of Vogue, plopped down the sofa and started reading. I looked back at Hermes.

"That's it?"

"Well, I didn't even know those Ferrero's were Apollo's."

"And you didn't ask?" He shook his head.

"What about Demeter's cookies?"

"It smelled so delicious I couldn't resist eating some," he reasoned out.

"And?"

"Nothing. That's it."

"Well, since your explanation didn't reach my satisfactory level, you'll be doing house chores for 2 weeks -"

"Mom!" Hermes complained.

"You're going to pay those chocolates, bake another set of cookies for Demeter - "

"What? That's crazy! I don't even know how to slice onions."

"Those are not even enough," I replied roughly, "And apologize to them SINCERELY. Right here, right now."

"Okay. I'm sorry, Mom."

"No, no. Not to me, to them," I pointed my head to Apollo and Demeter. He rolled his eyes and I gave him my evil glare that made him shiver a bit then turned to the two.

"Apollo, Demeter, I'm really sorry that I ate your chocolates Apollo, and your cookies Demeter. I'll try to control my starvation again." I noticed Athena snickering in the corner, watching the scene.

"Don't just say you'll 'try'. You WILL control it," Apollo said, looking hard.

"Okay, okay. I WILL control my hunger starting today."

"Hmm," Demeter and Apollo thought for a while, "Okay fine, apology accepted."

"Thanks guys," Hermes thanked them. I looked at him again. He widened his eyes at me. He knew what I wanted him to do. He rolled his eyes. He approached Apollo and Demeter and gave them a bear hug.

"Aww. That's just so cute!" Aphrodite exclaimed, looking up from the magazine.

"That's my boy," Zeus joined in the hug then patted Hermes's head.

Hestia came out of the kitchen wearing her apron and gloves. She cooed like Aphrodite as she saw the scene.

"As much as I hate interrupting this adorable episode, I would very much likely to know if you guys are hungry. I made macaroni in the kitchen and it's best eating it while it's still freshly-cooked."

"Ooh! I am, I am!" Hermes broke from the hug and ran immediately in the kitchen.

"I thought you're going to control your hunger?" I asked.

"Well it's not entirely yours," he replied.