The weekend is finally here. His parents gave him a day off as Gene, like ever occasion, has a hard time choosing which tie should he wear.

Suddenly, Mary entered his room without knocking as she noticed her son deciding which tie he should choose. "Oh Gene. You don't have to wear something to impress the princess when you take her on a date." She advised as she snatched the bow and tie away from her son's. "Your daddy did the same thing once when he took me out, and you know what I said?"

"What?" Gene asked.

"Just be yourself."

"I appreciate you, mom, but Jailbreak acted as a real princess now, and I have to look good."

Suddenly, Mel knocked to interrupt the conversation. "Well, you're not royal, and you don't belong to a royal family. You're Meh. You're a multi-expressive emoji, and you have to be what you are."

Gene smiled as he hugged his parents with open arms. "Thanks, you guys. I appreciate your support."

"Now, go along without your ties. We'll take care of everything in the Text Center." Mel gently pushed his son out of his room as Gene continued to walk towards the door.

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When he got out, he didn't kneed a cab to take Jailbreak out, so he just walked, and, when he realized he was almost late to pick her up, he used the balloon to fly all the way to the Royals' mansion. When he finally made it, Gene took a deep breathe, and was about to take a step on the stairs, but he was stop when he heard a 'psst' sound.

"Psst."

Gene looked around to look who called him.

"Psst."

He noticed that the sound was coming from the bush behind the staircase. Then, there was a yellow hand, waving at him to come with it. Gene was curious about it, but he obeyed the arm as he walked slowly towards the bush. The arm grabbed him by the wrist and pulled him in the bush.

Gene coughed the leaves out of his mouth, and gasped. "Jailbreak, you're here!"

"Sshhh!" Jailbreak covered his mouth. "My mom, dad, and siblings didn't know where I am. I was hiding from them."

"Your family didn't know we're going out?" Gene asked.

"No. I only said 'I'm going out shopping.', but I don't."

"What if your brothers followed us?"

"That's why we'll sneak out."

Gene smirked. "I missed that kind of you, Jailbreak."

Jailbreak blushed as she combed her hair behind her ear. "Well, I may be a princess now, I'm still a code breaker."

"So, how can we sneak away from your brothers?" He asked.

"Just follow me lead." She said.

"Lead the way, Your Majesty."

Gene and Jailbreak used the bushes to quietly sneak away behind the princes as they looked around them, but not behind.

"Are you sure Linda already left?" Prince #1 asked.

"Probably. She's not here." Prince #2 replied.

"Oh well, let's go horseback riding." Prince #3 suggested as they all went back inside the mansion and the two bushes snuck away from the mansion.

When they are now far away, Gene and Jailbreak removed the bushed off of them.

"Oh man, we snuck away too good, huh?" Gene laughed.

"Yeah. I know!" Jailbreak also laughed. "Oh, would you stay here for a minute? I better go over there."

"Uh, where are you going?"

"Just in this corner, and don't look, okay?"

When Gene turned around as he obeyed to not to look, Jailbreak hid in the corner, and after few second, she came out unseen.

"Okay, Gene, you can look now!" Jailbreak said.

Gene turned around, and saw Jailbreak as she was no longer in her princess dress and wore her tiara anymore. Instead, she was wearing her black shirt and black hat with a blue wig.

"Wow, Jailbreak, you're wearing you're disguise again!" Gene exclaimed.

"Well, this is how you know me when we first met." Jailbreak chuckled. "So, where are you taking me now?"

"Oh, it's a surprise. But first..." Gene took out a red handkerchief as he blind-folded Jailbreak on her eyes.

"Gene, what are you doing?" She asked.

"You will know. Just let me guide you." He instructed.

Gene secretly led Jailbreak out of Textopolis to the wallpaper.

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It took minutes to reach their destination as Jailbreak began to wonder where they are.

"Uh, are we there yet?" She asked.

"Not yet." Gene replied.

"We've been walking for so long."

"We're almost there."

Finally, they reached the Instagram app as they entered through and Gene swiped Alex's pictures until he found the picture where Alex and his family had their vacation in France.

Gene gently push Jailbreak with him through the picture, and around them was like they were in Paris for real, except that all living and non-living your frozen like statues.

"Alright, you can look now." He removed the blindfold from Jailbreak's eyes as she finally open her eyes.

Jailbreak looked at her surroundings as she gasped in surprise. "Wow! It's so beautiful! Where are we?"

"We're in Instagram, Jailbreak, in Alex's 'Trip to France' album. My parents dated here once, but they didn't come here anymore longer. Now, come with me."

Jailbreak followed Gene to a restaurant, where there was an empty table set for them. Gene pulled a chair for Jailbreak to sit. When she did, he rushed inside, and came out for 2 seconds with a dish with a lid on his hand.

"What's that?" Jailbreak asked.

Gene placed the dish on the table, and opened the lid, revealing spaghetti with meatballs. "Ta-da!"

"Did you...?"

"I did! Actually, my mom helped me."

"Well, I think you prepared this for me."

Later, the two emojis ate their lunch, told each other's stories, laughed at their jokes, etc.

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After eating their food, Gene decided to take Jailbreak to another app for the rest of their date as they left Instagram and moved to Spotify.

"Wow, we're in Spotify?" Jailbreak chuckled.

"Yeah, and I was thinking this is where we gonna spend the rest of our date." Gene scratched the back of his head nervously. "So, maybe, since I made you a nice lunch, you should pick the song you like this time."

Jailbreak stared at Gene as she smirked. She picked the fast and fun stream with the song 'Ride by ZZ Ward' as they ride on a boat. Jailbreak seemed to have a fun time, but Gene bounced up and down on the boat because of the waves of the stream as he almost fell off the boat.

"Can you, at least, pick a calmer stream?!" Gene yelled as he tried to keep himself from falling off the boat.

"Alright, I know just a stream." Seconds later, Jailbreak managed to moved the boat to the calmer stream besides the fast and crazy one as they let the wave washed them off and landed to the smoother one.

"Ah. That's much better." Gene exhaled. "Hey, I remembered this stream. Is this...?"

"The same stream where we saw the whale song." Jailbreak reminded, then her eyes widened. "I think it's coming."

Suddenly, a blue whale appeared, jumping over the two emojis as the streams' pixels slowly fell over them. Jailbreak stood up and played the pixels, and some of them fell on their heads like water. The two chuckled when the water-like pixels tickled their head. When the whale song is over, Jailbreak sat back on the boat.

"I really miss that moment." She sighed.

"Me too." Gene added. "Hey, let me ask, do you still love your family and all?"

"Of course. I love my family, but I just didn't want them to make me what they want for me. Just like what I said before, I always wanted to live in the Cloud, but I decided to work in the scanner... to be with you everyday."

With Jailbreak explanation, Gene started to blush. "For me, I always wanted to be in a cube, but I didn't expect to be hero."

"Ha! Hero or not, you're still cool to me just the way you are."

At this moment, Gene and Jailbreak stared at each other's eyes as they smiled at each other. Gene placed on Jailbreak's. They slowly leaned at each other's face and closed their eyes, almost leaned in to a kiss.

But suddenly, the princess emoji stopped on her track as she quickly pulled away. "Uh... I think I should go home."

"What? Why?" Gene asked.

"My parents and siblings were looking for me when I was out of their sight for so long. If they find out about this, I'll be grounded for good.

"Oh... that's okay." The multi-expressive emoji said as the boat finally reached the end of the stream.

When Gene hopped out of the boat first, he extended his hand to help Jailbreak. She nearly tripped as Gene caught her in his arms.

Jailbreak quickly got up on her feet again as she tried to hide her blush. "Uh, l-l-let's just go." She stammered as she rushed out first.

Gene just stared at her in guilt as he followed her.

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Well, this is my stop for a while.

Merry Christmas everyone!