The kids spent most of the day playing Quidditch. Around 6:30 they all made there way into the dinning room to eat dinner. Lily and Katie had definitely gone all out on the meal due to the fact that everyone would be going back to school the next day. Even Lexi had come down to join them.

"So what does everyone say to ice cream after dinner tonight?" asked Remus.

"Well, I don't know about everyone else," said Faolan, "but I say DEFINITELY!"

By the looks on all of the kid's faces no one disagreed with him.  As usual, the normal talk went on around the table.

"So Ebony, are you excited about starting Hogwarts?" asked Bade.

"I guess so," she answered. "But what if I get sorted into Slytherin?"

"Oh don't worry about that," said Griffin, who had hardly spoken all day. "The only person in this family who has any chance at being in Slytherin is of course, Cadence."

"SHUT UP GRIFFIN!" yelled Cadence as she hurled a baked potato at him that hit him square in the face.

"WHY YOU LITTLE…" roared Griffin chucking a bowl of peas at Cadence.

"LITTLE WHAT?" Cadence screamed. "HUH LITTLE WHAT!!!" she added as threw a pitcher of pumpkin juice at him.

Griffin was livid but just as he was about to make a comeback at his sister…

"THAT'S ENOUGH," roared Sirius. "COULD YOU TWO JUST ACT LIKE CIVILZED PEOPLE FOR ONE MINUTE!!!!"

The table quieted down almost instantly. Lexi gently laid her hand on her husband's forearm in a futile attempt to calm him down.

"I HAVE HAD IT UP TO HERE WITH THE CONSTANT FIGHTING!" Sirius yelled. He took a deep breath and then continued in a deadly whisper, "Now the two of you are going to clean all of this up, WITHOUT MAGIC, and if I hear the slightest disagreement between the two of you you'll be very sorry. Is that understood?"

Cadence nodded her head and sat back down in her chair. Griffin however did nothing of the sort.

"No," he said defiantly.

"Excuse me?" said Sirius, who was just about to sit back down.

"I said NO I don't understand you," Griffin repeated also standing up.

"Really?" said Sirius who was slowly walking towards his son.

"YEA REALLY," bellowed Griffin, " AND ANOTHER THING! I AM SO SICK OF YOU TREATING ME LIKE I'M A LITTLE KID CUZ IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED I'M NOT!

"IF YOU WANT ME TO TREAT YOU LIKE AN ADULT THAN I SUGGEST YOU START ACTING LIKE ONE!" Sirius yelled.

"YOU KNOW WHAT JUST JUST SHUT UP!" screamed Griffin brushing past his father.

"DON"T YOU DARE WALK AWAY FROM ME GRIFFIN BLACK! I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!"

"REALLY, WELL I'M FINISHED WITH YOU!"

In one swift movement Sirius was across the room and had grabbed his son by his upper arm and turned Griffin so that he was looking right into his eyes.

"Don't you EVER speak to me that way again," growled Sirius his voice barely above a whisper. "You're lucky you're going back to Hogwarts tomorrow because if you were staying here you'd be on restriction for longer than you could imagine. Now get upstairs to your room and when everyone is finished eating you can come back down and help your sister clean up this mess. Is THAT understood?"

Griffin nodded, knowing he was defeated. Sirius gave him a slight push out of the dinning room before sitting back down in his seat.  Everyone was staring at him, clearly shocked at what they had just witnessed. Apparently, Sirius was unaware of all of the eyes on him. He was viciously cutting his meat and muttering to himself. James caught Lexi's eyes and smiled slightly.

"Sirius?" Lexi ventured cautiously.

"WHAT?" he said throwing down his knife.

"Can I talk to you for a minute?" she said grabbing his arm and leading him from the room.

Lexi dragged Sirius to the family room and turned to face him her hands on her hips.

"Would you go talk to him before he does something stupid?" she said.

"Lexi he's not going to do something stupid," said Sirius closing his eyes.

"Well I wouldn't blame him if he did seeing as how you just berated him in front of the entire family." Lexi shot back at him.

"Oh so now it's my fault," said Sirius angrily.

"I didn't say that," said Lexi calmly.

"No but you were thinking it."

"Sirius, talk to him, because I've had it up to hear with you two fighting all the time," said Lexi.

There was a note a finality in her voice that ended all contest.

Sirius sighed. "Alright fine I'll talk to him but I'm not going to let him speak to me like that."

"I understand that he shouldn't have an attitude like that with you but your yelling doesn't make things any better."

Sirius sighed again and followed Lexi back into the dinning room. James and Remus looked as though they wanted nothing more than to taunt Sirius about what had just happened. But they would just have to wait until the opportune moment, of course.