Barely containing a snicker, I kicked the leg of his chair to make him stop teasing. Not that I honestly expected him to. Jake felt like a really old brother these days, and teasing was just part of the package.

"Yes, yes, there's a speech," I said without hesitation and so seriously that he had to know that I was joking. I didn't always have the best poker face. "You have to talk about how awful Great Britain was and why the pilgrims had to leave and how they made such a better country than before.

"But besides that.." I started ladling heaping portions onto my plate. "Your plate must be full to bursting. You put cranberry sauce on your turkey and you put gravy on everything."