Only Time Will Tell

Chapter 14

A/N: This chapter took way longer to write then I expected.

Okay so I realized I never made dates and ages clear enough in the story so you all should know this for this chapter. When Jacob arrived from the future:

Jacob was: 16 years old (Birthday January 14th)

The date he left in the future was May 1st 2006

The date he arrived to in the past was January 1st 1916. The Masen's think he turned 16 while he was living with them.

Edward was: 14 years old when Jacob arrived (Birthday June 20th)

"Damn it!" Jacob swore lowly when he cut his finger with the kitchen knife. He reflexively sucked on the finger to stop the bleeding. He felt it tingle a bit and pulled away from his mouth. He watched as the small wound sealed itself in seconds.

God he was lucky for his healing abilities. If he didn't have them Edward probably would have found out about his surprise weeks ago just from the cuts alone.

Jacob examined the small carved wolf between his fingers as he thought this. He'd been working on making Edward a small bracelet for his upcoming birthday. The small black cord for it had been easy enough to find in Elizabeth's sewing kit but for the actual wolf charm itself Jacob wanted to specially make that himself.

It wasn't the first thing that so Jacob know he could make it look realistic. The only problem was he didn't have the right tools. Are he had to work with were the knives he found in the kitchen instead of a proper carving knife. It also didn't help that it had to be so small. Usually Jacob was really good with working with such small things seeing as he spent a lot of time working on cars but it'd been a while since he's done that so his hands were a little unused to it. Which resulted in a lot of slip ups. If it weren't for his healing abilities his hands would probably be entirely bandaged up at this point.

Jacob also didn't have the best lighting for his work. To ensure Edward wouldn't know what he was doing Jacob had to find some pretty creative hiding places to work in. Like in the backyard along the dark side of the house. Or under one of their beds. Or even one point in the complete darkness of their closet having to use his shifter abilities just to see properly.

But all that discomfort was worth it because he'd finally finished it just in time for Edward's birthday party tomorrow.

Jacob looked down at his work with a satisfied smile before hearing someone calling for him.

"Jacob! Are you back here!"

Edward must have finished his piano practice early.

"Yeah I'm over here!" Jacob called out from the tree he was in. Stuffing the bracelet in his pockets before Edward walked over to him.

"What are you doing up there?" Edward asked looking up at him bemused. Jacob smiled down at him.

"Just enjoying the weather." He answered.

"Well come down. The tailors here with our suits for tomorrow and Mother wanted to see how we look in the." He said and moved back to give Jacob room to jump down.

Jacob got up and grabbed on to the branch he was previously sitting on swinging himself to the ground. Edward admired his flexing muscles as he did. He had a clear view because Jacob wasn't wearing a shirt under his vest like he usually would. He said it was too hot to wear both in June. Edward personally thought it felt pretty good outside today but he wasn't going to argue that if it meant he'd be able to see more of Jacob beautiful golden skin.

Once Jacob landed the two of them headed into the house and went off to try o their suits. For once Jacob's actually fit pretty comfortably. It seemed like the tailor had finally stopped underestimating his size and made something that actually fit pretty snuggly but not uncomfortably so.