James saw the number in the corner of his screen run up into the thousands in seconds. He smiled at the camera, seeing the wind of commends flood the screen. 

"Hey, guys! A lot of you have been asking for a Q&A for a while now, and I'm here to deliver," he smirked. "Start sending in those questions here–" A box for fans to submit questions appeared "–and allow me to introduce you to our guest star today."

OMG is it Emily?

ugh pls don't be the gf

EMILYYYYYY

Logan pls Logan pls

I love your music!

"Say hello to Emily Moore!" The phone appeared right in front of Emily's face where she sat on her couch reading a book. 

"What?" She turned her head to James who never mentioned this live stream. 

yikes she doesn't look ready

EMILY I LOVE YOUUUUUUUU

lol did james not tell her?

 James crashed onto the couch beside her, so the two of them were visible at the same time. "We've been so excited to finally do this with you guys!" 

"You didn't say we were doing this," Emily said, not attempting to mask her ambush for the live fans. 

James laughed, brushing her off, "Of course I did!" 

"He didn't tell me," Emily told the fans. 

"That's enough of that," James pushed her head out of camera. "Let's see what questions we have..." James smiled, picking on for the live to show everyone. "'Emily, who is your favorite btr member?' I wonder who," he said cheekily. 

"Kendall," Emily answered, holding her tongue in her teeth to keep from smiling at what she knew would be a dramatic reaction from the boy next to her. 

CARLOS!

james i love you!

KEMILY  FOREVER

she doesn't even like him 

wow some of y'all don't get jokes

James' smile dropped, "I will fire you," he told her. 

"You can't fire me," she narrowed her eyes, confused on if he actually thought he possessed power to fire anyone on the team. She scrolled through the questions, selecting another. "'james why did you cut your hair 🎤 the overgrown justin bieber cut was a look' from vampiwh0re who is asking the real questions."

James rolled his eyes as Emily read the question, moreso annoyed with her choice of question. "I grew up," he said. 

"That's debatable."

"'What's your favorite memory together?' Thank you VOIDVANNIE for such a sweet question," he said before going into thought. 

"Ummm," Emily thought out loud, trying to find a more public memory in her mind. "Europe was fun, so was our first date."

"Our first date?" James questioned, wondering how she could possibly mean that derailed evening. 

"Basically, James and I had a long overdue first date because we spent the first few months on tour and our friends crashed every attempted date. We had very nice dinner plans, but our friend needed some help on his own date that night, so we gave him our reservations and spent the entire night sneaking around the restaurant, puppeting the date," Emily told the fans. 

It was Carlos, no doubt. 

carlos for sure

THATS SO SWEET

"I think I'll go with our first kiss on the beach after you convinced me I was a mermaid–"

Emily startled James by slapping an arm across his chest, "I want to change my answer!" 

James sighed, lowering his heart rate, "To?" 

"When I saved you for a psycho 12 year old who wanted to be you and trapped you in a dog cra–" 

"Ba ba bap!" James exclaimed, covering her mouth. 

James how?

Is she serious?

HA

"New question–" James quickly said, "'Favorite thing to bake?'" He turned to Emily, knowing of her stress-induced habit of over baking. "Muffins, right?" 

"Yeah, you laugh, but I don't hear you complaining," she retorted, scrolling through the questions. "'James who is your best friend?'" 

lol they're just roasting each other with questions

what does muffins mean?

"I love all my friends," James answered, smiling. 

"That's nice, but that wasn't coffee-underscore-addict-underscore-19's question," she told him. "By the way, me too," she told the fan who asked the question. 

"I don't have one person–"

"'Answer the question dude'"

"Em," James was taken back at her forcefulness on live, much less calling him 'dude.'

"No, Kendall says that," Emily pointed out the comment from KendallKnight on the live. 

KENDALLS HERE

yeah answer the question dude

KENDALL I LOVE YOU

"Hi Kendall," Emily waved. "Oh, look Logan's here now–"

"'Emily, will you marry me?'" 

omg what

he's kidding

dude what happened to the plan?

ILL MARRY YOU JAMES

Emily went quiet, looking up at James, forgetting about teasing him over the live, forgetting about the thousands of people watching them right now. "What?" She mumbled. 

"The question," James pointed to a new question on the live, feeling proud he turn the tables yet again. 

Emily exhaled heavily, "Yes, please," she begged. "Get me far away from this person," she put on hand sprawled across his face, pushing his head to the side as he did to her earlier. "You gave me a heart attack," Emily whispered under her breath so the live wouldn't pick up anything. 

"'Zodiac signs?'"

Emily held her hands out, pinching her fingers together, "The crab."

"That's not a sign–"

"It's a crab, I swear," she told James. 

"Okay, so Cancer." James clarified, "I'm a Virgo." 

"Ooh! What is a song that reminds you of each other?" Emily clicked on a new question. "Style from 1989," she answered immediately. 

"Really?" James hummed, interested in her choice. 

"You got that James Dean daydream look in your eye and I got that red lip classic thing that you like," she lightly said in rhythm. "Honestly that whole album is very James Diamond to me." 

"How You Get the Girl, Wildest Dreams," he smirked, listing songs from the album.

On her phone, in her lap, she silently pulled up You Are In Love from the album, secretly showing him. "What's your pick?"

James bit back a smile staring at her phone, trying to focus on the question. "Boyfriend," he smirked. 

"Which one?"

"The one written about me," he smiled proudly. 

Emily's phone buzzed, seeing an urgent message from Gustavo. She showed James.

"It appears we are going to have to get going very soon," James told the phone. 

nooooooooo

will you do this again??

You got the text too?

"Kendall, go do something with yourself," Emily said, seeing Kendall comment again. 

James snickered, "Our producer has summoned all of us so maybe that means we're working on something new–" he teased. 

"Or maybe it means he's sending us on a wild goose chase for gold again," Emily said bitterly. Gustavo found a "treasure map" hidden in his backyard a few weeks ago and had sent the gang off to find it after discovering a new clue. 

"Do you want to pick the last question?" He asked. Emily shook her head, seeing the hundreds to choose from. James picked one, "'When did you know you loved each other more than friends?'" 

Emily hummed, not finding it an easy question to answer. Mainly because she just woke up one day and realized, but also she didn't want to share to something so personal with the world, and she hoped James wouldn't. 

"I honestly have no idea," she said, shaking her head. "I do remember realizing I liked you after that incident where you got trapped in a dog crate in the basement by a 12 year old trying to steal your identity," she repeated the story. 

James groaned, "Why? Why would you? And that can't possibly be right," he realized, thinking the timing was off. 

"No," she shook her head, "I started writing Boyfriend pretty much right after that." 

"Well unlike some people, I liked you right away–"

"Just because you repeatedly asked me out doesn't mean you actually had feelings for me," she pointed out. "By that logic, you all liked me for weeks." 

James caved, accepting the truth that just because he was wildly into her, he wasn't crushing yet. "Okay fine, I wasn't aware my crush on you was for real right away, but I always liked you," Emily nodded half-heartedly, accepting his logic, "that being said, I don't think I realized how much I liked you until the impromptu school dance and we helped Logan ask Camille," she nodded, letting him know she remembered. "All those girls I accidentally asked were chasing me around the studio, and you paid them all off. I think up until then, I was so focused on how you didn't like me at all– she did not like me–" he stressed to their viewers. 

"It's true. I couldn't stand him," she agreed. 

"And then you turned around, still didn't like me, and did something so selfless to help me out," he explained. 

OBSESSED WITH YOU GUYS

<3 

aww logan and camille!

Emily caught all the comments flooding in, gushing over them, and felt the light on her getting a little too bright, "You never paid me back for that," she pointed out. 

"Was I supposed to?" 

Emily gaped, "That was not a hand out," she shook her head. 

"Really? So, you want me to pay you back all these years later?" She nodded. "Alright, how much?" James asked, reaching for his wallet. 

"One hundred billion dollars," Emily replied. 

James stopped, turning to blink at her. "Well, after we find the gold, I'll pay you that with interest!" 

"We are not going on another hunt for nonexistent treasure," she spoke into the universe. 

"Okay, guys, thank you all for your questions and for joining us today!" James smiled. "Hopefully we can do this again soon."

"Thanks for having me," Emily smiled shyly. She felt awkward thanking her boyfriend for talking to her via a live stream, but if she didn't say anything it would look like she didn't like James, or the fans, or thought she was better than everyone. She learned a few ways to keep the public off her back. 

"Thank you for agreeing to it," James replied, putting an arm around her shoulders. 

"Again, you didn't say anything about this. You sat down and shoved a phone in my face."

"Maybe that's your interpretation–"

"It's not an interpretation. It's what happened," she pointed to the comments for him to read. 

James shook her off, "Alright, see you next time everyone!" He said. 

"Bye," Emily waved. 

This live has ended.

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hi besties! i know its been a while! i hope you guys liked this! let me know if you have requests for any new oneshots, or questions, or just comments in general about this! 

love you all <3