Piper started laughing and choked on her chicken. "I can't lie, that was what I thought of first, too. Then I thought, 'No, Piper, brain out of the gutter.' But apparently it has company there."
She reached out and patted Charles' shoulder. "This is what friends are for," she told him. "Embarrassing you horribly in front of your other friends." To Jacob she said, "Is it possibly dessert conversation? Because I have caramel-apple cobbler and vanilla ice cream."