Hey, guys. =) I AM still writing my other Jacob/Taylor stories, but this is a new Jacob fic- I haven't been able to get the idea out of my head. I hope you enjoy it! R&R It starts in New Moon before Edward leaves and Bella is all depressed. Jacob Black and Azalea Call are best friends. Along with Quil Ateara and Embry Call, of course. =) I can't leave them out.

The Flower Called Azalea

How It Used To Be

Azalea POV

"Jacob! Put me down!" I laughed. We were hanging out in his garage, working on his Rabbit when he suddenly attacked me. "This is not nice, Mr. Black!" I scolded playfully, and he swung me around. Of course, me being a girl… I screamed.

He laughed along with me and continued his assault. He knew I'd always hated being tickled….

"Jake," a voice sighed from the entrance of the garage. "Dude, put my sister down."

Jake tickled me one last time and put me down. I huffed at him and he grinned. "Embry, you take the fun out of everything."

My brother laughed and then turned to me. "What'd you do this time?"

I scoffed. "Why must you always assume that I did something? You do realize that your so-called 'best friend' is not as innocent as he seems, right?"

"Duh. That's part of why he's my bro! But, no. Seriously. Why'd he attack you?"

"He's jealous of my mechanical skills," I smiled smugly.

It was Jake's turn to scoff. "Oh, whatever. I just thought it was time for a break."

I turned to him and began talking directly to him. "Yeah, because while you were busy trying to patch up the hole in the oil tank that you caused, I installed the engine and got the vehicle to actually turn on."

"You were only able to do that because I already had the engine in there."

"You're right. You did have it in there." He looked triumphant for a second until I spoke again. "Upside down."

He was about to retaliate, but realized that he couldn't win against me. So after his mouth opened, it closed just as quickly.

I reached up and ran my fingers through a little bit of his long hair and smiled a bit before looking into his eyes. "It's okay. We all know that my mechanical knowledge and skills far overpower yours. It's nothing to be embarrassed about. The whole reservation knows it."

He laughed and swatted my hand away. "Yeah, just like the whole reservation actually believes that you're Embry's biological sister."

"Hey, watch it. So our mom's not Quileute. Big deal. He just happened to get the awesome Native American genes. I happened to get the paler skin tone, green eyes, and brown hair. But you know that we are actually fraternal twins," I stuck my tongue out at him.

"Well of course I know that. I grew up with you guys. But everybody else on the rez still thinks that you're some kind of alien…" he gave me a faux sympathetic look. Which in turn, caused me to smack his arm.

I smiled slightly. "Shut up. You're just jealous because you can't be an alien among the regulars here."

"Wow. According to you, I'm jealous of a lot aren't I?"

"Yep. And I'll bet you anything that when I get a boyfriend, you'll be jealous of me then, too," I smiled. Once I saw the shocked look on his face, I started to run, but I wasn't quick enough.

Jacob chased after me and tackled me to his front lawn. "What are you saying?" he asked as he tried to pin my squirming figure down.

I fought against his grip as I looked innocently up at him and said, "Who? Me? Why, I'm not saying anything."

"You saying that I'm gay?" He tried harder to pin me. Embry was watching from the sidelines laughing at us.

"I'm not saying anything like that! …Thinking it, but… not saying it…" I muttered and as soon as those words left my lips, he pinned me to the ground, not giving me any room for escape. He had my wrists pinned above my head, and he pinned down my legs with his.

I enjoyed this position very much.

Jake stared into my eyes for a moment before slowly leaning down toward me and my breath hitched. My eyes bore into his and I couldn't tear my gaze away. Though as he drew closer, our eyes fluttered shut.

He soon was within the distance that would've given me the perfect opportunity to kiss him-however clichéd-but he moved his face to the side of mine and whispered in my ear.

"Say 'Uncle'."

I gasped and struggled some more. Once I realized it was useless, I looked straight at him. "Never."

He smiled and said, "Alright, then… you asked for it."

Before I could get him to elaborate, he was tickling me again.

"Jake! Stop!" I squealed and tried to squirm my way out from under him. Since he was using his hands now, they weren't holding me down any longer and I was able to get a hold of him to flip us over so I was holding him down to the ground.

He tried, but he couldn't move. I grinned evilly at him. "Hah."

He smirked and said, "This isn't over yet." Right as he was about to make a counter attack, Embry cut in.

"Oh, yes it is. Come on, Z. I came to get you because mom has dinner waiting. She's already in a pissy mood, so let's not add to that by missing dinner."

I sighed and got off of Jacob. "Alright, let's go…." I looked down at Jake lying on the ground, smiled, and reached out to him to help him up. He took my hand obligingly and once he was up, we faced each other.

He grinned down at me. "I'll see you tomorrow, then?"

I returned the smile. "I'll see you tomorrow, then."

Jake walked back into his garage and I followed Embry as we started to walk down the street back to our house. We spent about half the walk in silence until he finally broke it.

"Z… why don't you just tell him that you're in love with him?" he sighed.

"What?" I looked at Embry, shocked. "Jacob is my best friend! I am not in lo-" the look on his face cut me off. "Is it that obvious?"

He nodded. "Everyone knows."

"…Everyone?" I panicked.

"Well… everyone except for Jacob, that is."

I relaxed a bit. I really didn't care if everyone else knew. If they knew and he didn't, then I wasn't worried one bit. The reservation was so small that news spread like wildfire and if he didn't know by now, then he never would. Problem solved.