This is basically gonna be slightly social media too? Is that okay? (Actually, I already wrote it. Can't change it now whoops.)
R E Q U E S T E D

James grinned at his best friend, Sirius Black, as he turned on the camera. 'Hello!' He yelled into it, laughing already.

'Oh my God, James, please stop,' Sirius groaned from his position on the couch. One leg was swung over the arm in a deceptively casual stance, but every nerve in Sirius' body was on edge as he watched Remus, who was across the room.

'Don't tell me what to do,' James rolled his eyes at the camera, then cleared his throat. 'Okay, as I was saying before Sirius rudely interrupted me-'

There was a loud crunching from the armchair by Remus as Peter chewed on a crisp.

James turned slowly around, folding his arms. 'Wormtail!'

'I'm hungry,' Peter defended himself. 'Not my fault that I'm hungry when you're filming the intro.'

'Merlin,' James hissed, and Remus collapsed into giggles.

'Anyway,' James continued. 'I'm James Potter, and this is-'

He swung the camera around.

'Sirius,' Sirius waved drowsily.

'Peter,' Peter said, crunching on another crisp.

'Remus.'

'So today we're going to be doing a little 'ask the Marauders,' thing. I don't know what to call it.' James shrugged. 'Anyway, Sirius, give me your phone.'

Sirius jolted to attention. 'What? No! I didn't agree to this.'

'Yes, you did,' James reminded him. 'This morning at breakfast.'

'At breakfast?' Sirius snorted. 'Jeez, Prongs, you should know that you need to ignore any promises I make before I've had a cup of coffee. You can't use my phone, mate.'

Remus tossed his over, laughing silently at the expression on James' face.

'We sent out a tweet earlier this morning asking you guys to ask us some questions on Twitter, so here are some of them!' James grinned.

***

'James, what are your thoughts on Lily Evans?' James said. 'What? Who?'

Remus giggled again. 'Lily Evans Lily Evans? She's another YouTuber. She's a vlogger, does a lot of travel videos and DIYs. I met her at VidCon last year. She's really nice.'

James nodded. 'Hmm. Well, why are they asking me about her?'

'Because everyone thinks you two would be the best couple ever,' Remus explained. Peter munched on yet another crisp. 'I'm surprised you haven't heard about it already, to be honest.'

'It?' James frowned.

'Lames!' Sirius yelled. 'Lily and James. Lames!'

'Jily,' Remus corrected, and Sirius pouted.

'Jily?' James frowned. 'Weird name. Ah well. I don't know Lily Evans, sorry, so I don't really have an opinion!'

***

That night, James started to watch a few of Lily Evans' videos. The first one was a simple travel vlog, her in sunny Italy with a friend who she called Alice.

The next one was a DIY. The next one after that was another travel vlog.

Before long, it was 2AM. James shook his head and turned his phone off, rubbing his eyes.

Merlin, James. Get some sleep.

But as he fell asleep, he couldn't keep his thoughts off Lily Evans. She was beautiful, sure, but there was something else about her...

He could understand why the fans shipped her with him.

****

L I L Y

The next morning Lily woke up to find that her phone was madly going off.

'Hmm?' She mumbled, reaching for it blindly and checking Twitter.

#jily is trending!

'What?' Lily mumbled. 'Jily?'

Then she remembered. James Potter, a YouTuber who worked with a group of three others, 'the Marauders'. Her fans and his 'shipped' them, though she didn't know why. James had a notorious 'bad boy' streak- he'd punched a fan a while back, and apparently had a new girlfriend every week.

She'd found that out from Marlene a few weeks ago, and now apparently something had happened to make it trending.

She sighed and clicked on a random tweet.

Jily5Ever:
JAMES POTTER TALKED ABOUT JILY IN HIS VIDEO IM DEAD @jamesmarauders @muchlovelily
{link}

The video was about ten minutes long. Lily sighed and watched it, biting her lip as her name came up.

It was nothing, really... she didn't even understand why the fans had gotten so worked up about it.

Whatever. Lily turned her phone off and rolled over to go back to sleep.

Ping.

Groaning, Lily checked her phone again. One new message from jamesmarauders.

She blinked, slowly, then clicked on his profile. The blue tick sign by the name 'James Potter' confirmed it. He must have followed her earlier and the notification been lost in the onslaught of messages from fans.

With shaking hands, Lily clicked on the message.

Hey Lily

Hi James

So everyone on the Internet 'ships' us, according to my friend Remus, and I decided to see if you were a nice girl to be shipped with.

Hmm, I feel like a nice girl. Don't know about you, though. You've got a bit of a bad reputation around YouTubers.

Bad reputation? Me? I've never done anything bad in my life. I'm practically an angel. To be honest, I'm surprised I haven't been given wings and a halo yet.

What about that time you punched a fan in the face? That was all over the news.  That doesn't seem very angelic to me.

Ah, the fan! Bradley, right? Well, contrary to popular belief, I was provoked. He started to hit on a female friend of mine who I was with, even when she repeatedly told him no.

I'm a knight in shining armour, my dear Lily.

Knight in shining armour,  angel... you do have a lot of roles.

And a lot of roles given to me by the media. If you've heard about the thing with Bradley, you've probably heard about all my 'relationships' those women.

'Relationships'?

Mostly made by my manager, all false.

No offence, James, but why are you telling me this?

Because I need someone to know, I guess.

Some stranger to not come away from our first conversation thinking I'm an arrogant womaniser like everyone else does.

Hmm... well, I can't say you've made a good start. Next time try not blatantly flirting with the person you're trying to convince you're not a womaniser.

In my defence, you flirted back!

Only a little!

Only a lot. I was lead on by a charming British redhead. I can't account for my actions.

I'm starting to think you really are a womaniser. Please stop flirting with me.

I honestly can't help it!

I'm going to start singing Britney Spears at you in a second if you don't shut up.

Shutting up. I hate that song.

What? How can you hate that song?

How can you hate Star Wars?

How can you turn from charming to stalkerish so fast? Tell me, is a gift you were born with, or did you gradually learn it?

I may have binge-watched your videos last night.

Until 2am.

Yup, stalkerish. anyway , I don't hate Star Wars. I just don't like it much.

How can you not like Star Wars??

How can you hate running?
Ssh. I may have binge watched a little too.

See? I'm not a stalker.
Or maybe we're both stalkers.
Anyway, running is pointless.

I'll be sure to tell the police that after I chase you across the city with a knife. Because I'm such a stalker.

Well, it's pointless to do it every day.

It wouldn't be pointless if you were running away from something every day.

What? Are you going to chase me across the city with a knife every day? Because I hate to say it, Lily, but after a while someone might lock you up.

How am I even arguing with you about this?

No, don't stop. I want to know what you have to say next.

Well, I would say more, but I have to go. I'll continue this later.

That's code for 'I've lost this fight and I know it.'

You can back away from this with your pride, still, Lily.

I haven't lost! I'm just going for a run.
Whilst listening to Womanizer.

I cringe at the thought of it. Talk to you later, Lily.

Part 1- 1364 words.