The one where Emily is a YouTube star

by hopebreedsmisery

AU: In which Emily and Spencer are young and in love. I have this headcanon that if the girls lived in a world free from 'A' Emily could quite plausibly have set up a YouTube account to help other young members of the LGBQT community, to show them that they aren't alone. She's a sweetheart like that. This story follows one upload entitled 'The Girlfriend Tag'.

1. The Girlfriend Tag

"Hey guys! It's me again, Emily." She flashes a radiant smile to the camera, "As you can see, I have a very special guest with me today." She gestures to her right, where Spencer is sitting rather rigidly by her. "If any of you follow my twitter, or Instagram... or Tumblr for that matter, you'll already know my girlfriend, Spencer."

Spencer gives a small wave to the camera, with a closed mouth smile, "Hello."

"A lot of you have been asking if Spencer would ever make an appearance, and after much persuading I've finally convinced her to join me. Excuse her though 'cause she's kind of nervous." She playfully bumps her shoulder against Spencer's, causing her to smile too. "Today we are going to do the Girlfriend tag, which I have to say is like the most requested video on my twitter, ever. Umm so yeah," she looks at Spencer, talking directly to her now, "Should we just take turns, and whoever asks the other answers?"

"Sounds like a plan." Spencer smirks at her girlfriend. And boy does Spencer love a good plan.

"So.. Do you want to go first?"

"Answering first?" Spencer confirms, "...yeah."

"Alright, question number one. When and where did we met?" Emily smiles at Spencer reassuringly, sensing she's still feeling some uneasiness being in front of the camera for the first time, "Nice easy one to start."

Spencer returns Emily's smile, "That is pretty easy." She concedes, before she turns to look at the spot on camera Emily had pointed out to earlier, "We met...Freshman year of high school".

Emily nods along, chipping in, "But we didn't really get close until the start of sophomore year."

"Exactly...Okay so it's my turn to ask now, isn't it?" Spencer tilts Emily's phone towards her so she can read the next question, "Where was our first date?"

"Our first date...it was pretty standard dinner and a movie.."

"No, wait." Spencer interrupts, "Our first date was that night at The Brew, when we kissed."

Emily's eyebrows furrow in confusion, "That wasn't a date though, that was just us hanging out."

"Em, I drove you home, walked you to your door and we kissed, it was definitely a first date."

"Yeah, but I hadn't asked you out on a date beforehand, so it doesn't count as a date."

Spencer raises her eyebrows, before smirking, "This is going to have to be one of our agree to disagree things isn't it?"

"Maybe...probably." Emily smiles as Spencer shoots her a look, "You're wishing I let you look at the questions beforehand so we could have prepared each answer, aren't you?"

"Well I never knew how wrong you were about our first date before."

"I'm not wrong!" Emily yells exasperated, albeit with a smile, "It only counts as a date if both people are aware it's a date. The night we first kissed, well..neither of us knew that was going to happen until it did...so it doesn't count. You're wrong."

"I'm never wrong." Spencer replies confidently, "You should know that by now." Causing her girlfriend to roll her eyes.

"I'm agreeing to disagree. For now."

"Fine." Spencer concedes, slightly condescendingly.

"You're so annoying when you're being prissy." Emily pouts.

Spencer smiles, "Prissy, huh? That's a new word for you."

"Well apparently I've been spending too much time around you." She kisses her girlfriend quickly, before looking at the next question, "This one is going to be interesting...What was your first impression of me?"

Spencer considers the question for a few seconds, "Like first time I ever saw you, or more when we first started talking?"

"Umm I guess we could do both?"

"Okay...The first time I saw you, like in the hallway I thought...you had the best hair I have ever seen." Spencer answers, causing Emily to laugh loudly.

"Seriously? Your first impression was about my hair?"

"Well yeah, it's really, really shiny." Spencer replies, while simultaneously running her fingers through it.

"I can't believe I never knew that before. What about when we started talking?"

"I thought you seemed kind of shy. But you were the sweetest person I'd ever met, and you still are."

"Aww" Emily coos, leaning in to kiss her girlfriend, who smiles into the chaste kiss.

"Your turn."

"First time I ever saw you I thought you were super pretty. Then when we talked, I thought you were very very confident and sure of yourself."

"Do you think differently now?"

"No." Emily teases, "You've only gotten more confident in that time."

Spencer swats playfully at Emily's arm, before resting her chin on her girlfriends shoulder to read the next question, "When did you meet my family?"

"Umm...I met your mom before we started dating, probably like early Sophomore year, I'd went to your house after school, and your mom invited me to stay for dinner, so I met them both then."

"I can't remember exactly when I met yours, but I imagine I met your mom around the same time as you met mine. I didn't meet your dad until after we started dating though."

"True." Emily nods, looking down to read the next question, smiling as she asks "Do I have any weird habits?"

Spencer smirks, "your mirror face is a pretty weird habit."

"You're such a bitch." Emily laughs good naturedly. "I knew you were going to say that. I'll hold my hands up though and admit it, I do, I make a face when I look in the mirror, sometimes."

"Sometimes!? Em, it's everytime!"

"Shut-up!" It's Emily's turn to slap her girlfriends arm now, "Well what about you? You must have a ton of weird habits."

"Like?"

Emily narrows her eyes at Spencer as she thinks, "Well you have your little quirks about organizing things."

"I'm organized? There's nothing weird about being organized."

"Spence, you're obsessively organized to the point it is weird. Oh, and you have that thing about having to turn off the car radio when you're trying to park."

"I'm just going to go ahead and interrupt you otherwise you might never stop." Emily opens her mouth to respond, but decides to let Spencer off with it, allowing Spencer to continue to the next question. "How long have we been together?"

"Um...1 year and..." She mentally starts counting it out in her head, "9 months?" Turning to her girlfriend, "Is that right?"

Spencer smiles, kissing her chastely, "Exactly."

"Phew." Emily jokes, "Next up, do we have any traditions?"

"We do our homework together everyday." Spencer answers seriously, quickly turning confused when she hears her girlfriend laugh.

"That's the most Spencer thing you've said yet." Emily smirks, planting a kiss on the side of Spencer's head when she narrows her eyes. "I think they mean traditions more along the lines of...like how you take me out for a celebratory coffee after every swim meet."

Spencer's lips tug into a small smile, because yeah, that sounds a little more romantic that the homework thing, "Board games." She looks to Emily for reassurance, that this time she's on the right track, a bright smile and a nod confirms she is. "On Sunday afternoons we play board games. I like Scrabble, but Emily prefers Monopoly, mostly because she cheats her way to winning."

Emily's mouth drops open, "I do not cheat!"

"Yes you do."

"You can't even cheat at Monopoly."

"Once you have all your houses built you get yourself sent to jail and stay there until I'm bankrupt from paying you rent!"

"That's not cheating, that's just playing wisely. I thought you of all people would be impressed with my genius way of winning."

"Well I would be, if you weren't playing me." Spencer admits begrudgingly.

"Ah, so really the problem is you just don't like losing."

"Neither do you, hence you never wanting to play Scrabble."

They stare at one another, smiling fondly, almost daring the other to speak and continue the argument. Spencer however, being slightly more aware of the camera on them, leans into Emily, in order to read the next question, "Are our parents supportive of our relationship?"

"They are." Emily smiles. "When was our first kiss?"

"At the end of our first date." Spencer drawls.

"That wasn't.." The rest of Emily's protest is muffled as a laughing Spencer covers her mouth with a hand.

"As I was saying, our first kiss happened at the end of what I consider to be our first date. I drove Emily home from work, and walked her to the door and we hugged and as we pulled back from it we kind of just ended up kissing..." Spencer finishes softly starting into Emily's eyes, before clearing her throat and shaking herself out of the memory, forgetting they were suppose to be filming a video for her girlfriends youtube channel.

Emily smiles lightly, because when Spencer puts it like that, it does kind of sound like the perfect end to a date. Except it wasn't a date. "It was a pretty awesome first kiss."

"Not to mention, incredibly cliché."

"There's nothing wrong with a little bit of cliché."

Spencer smiles "True. Next question, When did we say 'I love you'?"

"Ah. This one isn't quite so cliché. I said it first. In the middle of an argument."

"It wasn't in the middle of the argument." Spencer starts in her know-it-all fashion, causing Emily to roll her eyes good naturedly. "Once you said 'I love you' the argument ended, so technically it was the end of the argument."

Emily glares at Spencer, who just smirks in response. "We'd been together for about 2 months, and I was very pissed at Spencer, and right in the middle of the argument I said something along the lines of 'Spence, I love you, but you need to realize I'm perfectly capable of standing up for myself.' So yeah, I pretty much just blurted it out."

"You didn't even notice you said it" Spencer chips in, before looking at the camera, "She was really pissed at me."

"With a perfectly good reason to be." Emily say seriously, before scrunching her nose up at looking at her girlfriend, "It wasn't exactly romantic."

Spencer wraps her arm around Emily's back and smiles reassuringly at her, "I think it was pretty perfect, let's face it with our first kiss being so cliché, it's nice that out first I love you was a little different from the norm."

Emily smiles slightly, leaning into Spencer while she reads the next question, "What's your favorite thing about me?"

"Hmm." Spencer bites down on her bottom lip, deep in thought.

Taking longer in thinking than Emily would like, "Seriously? you have to think about it?"

"Well yeah, I mean you can only have one favorite. It's hard to choose." Spencer replies seriously, causing Emily to melt a little. "My favorite thing about you is, and this is going to sound totally corny, but it's how you're literally like a ray of sunshine. No matter what's going on, or how stressed I am, you always have some little way of making me smile and making everything much better."

Emily's cheeks darken slightly with a blush at Spencer's words. "You're so freaking cute, sometimes."

"I'm serious, my life is 100% better just from your mere presence in it."

Emily reaches up gently, caressing Spencer's cheek and guiding their lips together for a passionate kiss breaking it, albeit reluctantly a few seconds later. Opening her eyes to her girlfriend smiling crookedly. "So, do have you got a favorite thing about me?" Spencer asks.

"Nah." Emily replied teasingly, causing both girls to laugh. "Obviously I do, and I think it might surprise you, but I like how protective you are. You take it way to far at times, but for the most part I like it. I always feel safe with you. I also really like how supportive you are, aside from my parents I'm not sure anyone believes in me as much as you do."

They share another kiss, this time more tender. Pulling back, Spencer quirks an eyebrow, "That was two things. Cheater." She smiles happily when Emily playfully swats at her arm. Spencer reaches again for the phone in her girlfriends hand, tilting the screen towards her in order to read the next question, "Any nicknames for each other?"

"Spence, and babe. You mostly call me Em, and sometimes sweetie, especially if I'm upset."

"And Champ."

Emily smiles, "And Champ." She agrees before taking a quick look at her phone which has the list of questions, "What do we argue about the most?"

"When our first date was apparently." Spencer quips.

Emily rolls her eyes, "We bicker a lot, sometimes about nothing in particular except Spencer's all consuming need to be right about everything."

"If I agreed with you everytime then we would both be wrong." Spencer replies confidently with a smirk.

"You're infuriating at times."

Spencer smiles cockily at her girlfriend, kissing her cheek quickly while taking hold of Emily's phone, "Oh hey, last question. Who's my best friend?"

"Aria." Emily answers immediately, "Mine?"

Spencer smiles, "Hanna, obviously."

"Hey we did it." Emily states, holding her hand up for a high-5 from her girlfriend, who duly delivers. Emily beams, threading her fingers through her girlfriends, turning to face the camera once more, "Well there you have it, the girlfriend tag is complete. That wasn't so bad was it?" She asks the brunette to her right.

Begrudingly Spencer concedes, "No." smiling when her girlfriends lip press against her cheek.

"If you guys enjoyed remember to click like and if you aren't already please subscribe, and you never know I might convince this one to join me again for a video. Also feel free to leave your comments about what you think, I'll try and respond to as many as possible." Emily blows a quick kiss to the camera, "Bye."