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21. PRESENT

Terry and I spent most of his birthday in my spot in the woods. We laid in the grass together, not saying much, just enjoying each other's company.

When I noticed the sun had set, I said that it was time to go to eat with Edward and Bella. I ran him home and we had just enough time to shower and get dressed before they arrived.

"Happy birthday Terry!" Bella hugged Terry. I briefly thought about her attitude change. How it went form miserable when Edward left her, to how happy she's become now that he came back to her and proposed. It was an interesting situation they had.

"Don't those clothes look nice on you?" Edward pulled on the fabric of the shirt Terry was wearing, which he had let him borrow. He looks better with less clothes on…

"Thank you, both of you. And you can have these back whenever you want them."

Edward shook his head. "No need to rush. You need something to wear to the wedding, so you can wear those." He walked to his car and opened the back seat. He pulled out the black jacket that he left for Terry to wear to dinner with me. "Here's the jacket for you to wear."

"Oh great, thanks." Terry took the jacket and ran inside.

It was a perfect opportunity to ask if they got the gift for him. "So Edward did you get the dog tag?"

He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a little wrapped box. "Right here."

I heard Terry's footsteps behind me so I turned around, smiling. "Ready to go?"

"Yeah." He looked suspicious, but he obviously had no idea what was going on.

I sat next to Terry in the backseat, with my arm over his chair. The car ride consisted of Bella and Terry talking about their history together and I was fascinated to learn about Terry. I had never taken the time to ask him about his life prior to meeting me, so I appreciated that conversation. Apparently Terry and his best friend, Jeff, befriended Bella, who spent most of her time by herself. Terry and Bella became good friends over time.

When we got to the restaurant, the same one I took Terry to, we were seated and had our orders taken quickly. The conversation now focused more on Terry and his family. His parents were divorced just like Bella's and once Bella left he mostly kept to himself, his only friend being Jeff. I found that kind of sad. But from what I could tell he and Jeff were very good friends, almost like brothers they were so close.

As we ate, the conversation drifted to Edward and his family, who Terry had little to no knowledge of. Edward's explanation of his vampire life started to bore me and I was beginning to get a little agitated. I felt we should've been more focused on Terry.

Once a birthday cake had been brought out, and once we were done eating that, I had enough of Edward's story time. "Alright, no more talk of vampires or werewolves. This is Terry's birthday, today should be about him."

"But Jake, a werewolf is a big part of my life now." That made me smile. "And you're best friends with Bella, who's engaged to a vampire. So talking about vampires and werewolves is about me."

"I guess." I looked over at Edward. The gift? "But that's not what I meant."

Edward reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a small wrapped box. "This is from Jacob, Bella, and me." Hey… quit mooching off my gift idea… "It's really a gift for the both of you." With a smile, he handed it to Terry.

"Thanks." I watched as Terry unwrapped the present, anxiously awaiting his reaction. He lifted out two separate chains and I became confused. He looked at each of them carefully before looking up. "P.O.?"

Edward and Bella began to laugh as I took the chains from Terry. When I saw what was written on each of them and what they actually were. 'P.O. Jacob Black' and 'P.O Terry Prokop'. I smiled at the genius the idea. I had asked for one dog tag, and instead they took it upon themselves to get two and have them be real dog tags. For dogs.

Terry took them back and looked at them again. "Oh… That is funny. They are actual dog tags."

"'Cause I'm a werewolf. Who's idea was the dog tags?" I wanted to know which one of them I'd have to thank for that.

Bella raised her hand. "That would be my idea. Well you know how Edward used to call you 'Dog' and 'Mutt'. I figured actual tags for dogs would make this funnier." She was right. It was funny.

"And 'Property Of'?" Terry asked.

"That was my idea." I smiled. "I had asked Edward if he could pick up a real military dog tag that said 'P.O. Jacob Black'. I wanted to get one for you… 'Cause well, you're my imprint. But I have to admit, actual tags for dogs is pretty good."

He looked back at the chains. "But there's two chains here."

Edward smirked. "I figured that in all truth, Jacob belongs to you as much as you do to him, if not more. So I had that second one made."

I watched in absolute amazement as Terry put on the dog tag. He accepted a gift that labeled him as belonging to me. I felt extremely happy. He tucked it under his shirt.

"What are you embarrassed to be owned by me?" I put mine on and had it dangling freely over my shirt. "I want the world to know I belong to you."

"I just don't want to get it caught on anything and ruin it. Thank you guys. This is a nice gift." He touched the tags through his shirt and my heart soared. I was flying high and I didn't care who knew it.

I couldn't stop smiling. "I'm glad you like it. And for you to actually accept it and wear it… I'm getting to you, aren't I?"

"I suppose. Unless you drugged my food. In which case, I don't even know what I'm doing. I probably would've accepted a tag that said property of Edward Cullen at this point." He smiled sarcastically.

"Yeah, I paid the waitress to drug your food to make you accept the dog tag." I laughed. Terry always knew how to make me laugh.

"You know what, you're right. Had I been drugged you probably would've raped me by now, Mr. 'I-think-about-having-sex-with-you-when-you're-lying-on-me-at-night.'" He crossed his arms over his chest.

"Sure I would need to drug you in order to rape you. Have you seen these muscles?" I flexed and the fabric of my shirt hugged tightly to my body, leaving nothing to imagination. "I could hold you down with one hand if I wanted to."

Terry and I went back and forth for most of the night. Edward and Bella dropped us off at Jacob's house. "Goodbye you guys." Bella hugged me and Terry.

"Yes, goodbye you two. Thanks for a very… interesting dinner conversation…" Edward smiled.

I laughed. I'm sure you enjoyed the mental pictures I was having too. "Anytime."

"Before I forget, your tuxedo was finished today. I have it at my house. I will bring it to the wedding for you to change into when you arrive."

"He works fast." That frightening little tailor.

Edward and Bella left as Terry and I walked inside. Changing in front of each other had become such a commonplace thing, I found it fascinating. He wore the pajama pants and T-shirt I let him borrow, and seeing him in my own clothes gave me such a sense of true happiness. I didn't really know why, I just loved the fact he was ok with the entire situation we were in.

We climbed into bed and he rested his head on my chest, as per the usual routine. As my eyelids began to droop, I yawned. "Happy birthday."

"Thanks Jacob." And then we both drifted off to sleep.