Sorry, it took so long. I was back to school, and my mind is filled with lessons. I wanted to post this at New Year, but it was delayed. So, belated Happy New Year!

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The next day, Gene woke up happily as he danced out of his room, down the stairs, and into the kitchen, where his parents were waiting for him.

Without a single word, he was just happy as he ate the pancakes on his plate without even stopping and sitting down. He kissed his mother on the cheek, and hugged his father, who was sitting on a chair and read a newspaper. Gene picked up a paper bag with his lunched from the table that Mary prepared for him, and winked at his parents before heading towards the door. Mel and Mary glanced at each other as they were curious why their son acted this way, but they suddenly realized why.

When he got out from his apartment, Gene gleefully danced at the sidewalk where he joined the other emojis' activities, like dancing with Flamenco, playing Frisbee with younger emojis, helping emoji animals to cross the street, and joining a morning exercise with the hand emojis (except Hi-5, since he didn't socialize with other hand emojis more often).

Along the sidewalk, Gene approached Hi-5, and span him round and round, making this hand emoji dizzy.

"Whoa whoa, Gene! Stop! I think I'm gonna be sick!" Hi-5 tried to hold his barf.

"Oh, sorry, Hi-5." Gene stopped spinning Hi-5 "I was in a good mood this morning."

"Ooh, why is my best friend in a good mood?" Hi-5 asked.

"Well, uh..." Gene scratched the back of his head, and thought if it is a good idea to tell him what happened yesterday. "I took Jailbreak on a date yesterday."

Every emoji heard him as they stopped of what they were doing and gasped loudly.

"Ugh, go back to you activities! This is best friend business!" Hi-5 yelled as every emoji continued their everyday task. Then, he turned to Gene. "Really?!" The hand squealed. "You dated a princess! Well, you're a lucky emoji, Gene. There is no emoji can't date a princess... unless the king agrees with this."

"Relax, buddy. If the king finds out, I'll explain everything." Gene said.

"You better be, because he disagrees, he'll feed you to the lions or worst."

"How worst?"

"Remember when you made an accident and Smiler called you a 'malfunction', she sent bots to delete you!"

"I think the lions are worst."

"Eh, I think you're right."

Gene and Hi-5 made it to Text Center. When they entered, Jailbreak was there first than them, still in her princess dress, smiling at them. Gene's cheeks turned red, and Hi-5 wanted his two friends to have an alone time.

"'Hey, Hi-5!'" Hi-5 gritted through his teeth, pretending someone has been calling him. "I think someone's calling me. I have to go."

When Hi-5 left, Jailbreak approached Gene, and greeted him. "Morning, Gene. I just wanted to say thank you for that date yesterday."

"Don't mention it." Gene blushed. "Hey, wanna see a movie tonight? Movies are good today."

"Gene, I loved to, but it's Sunday." The princess shook her head down. "My family and I were having a family bonding time every Sunday, and no matter where we're going, a relative or two should come along."

"Wait, you mean..." Gene was about to guess, until Jailbreak's siblings showed.

"Hi, Gene." One of the princesses with blonde hair greeted.

"Hello, Gene." Another princess with black hair and dark brown skin added.

"Nice to see you, Gene." A princess wit light brown hair patted his hair.

"You're still handsome though." Another princess, who looked just like Jailbreak, winked at him

"Hey, Meeeh" One of the princes snickered, playing Gene's emoji type as the other princes laughed.

Jailbreak's sibling came beside her, showing that they have to be with her for whole day.

"We'll be with our sister, Linda, for the whole Sunday." The blonde princess squealed.

"That means we'll going to watch her wherever she was... with you." The prince with blonde hair smirked.

Then, Gene stared at Jailbreak, waiting for her to explain.

"Sorry, Gene. This happens every Sunday." Jailbreak apologized.

"Attention, everyone." Mel announced through the microphone. "Emojis, to your cubes!"

"Well, we have a job to do." Gene said.

"Yeah, I'll see you at the scanner." Jailbreak nodded as she headed to the scanner, while Gene headed to his cube

"And we'll stay here below!" The light brunette princess squealed excitingly. "Ooh, I can't wait to see the emojis get scanned."

"And our sister in-charge of the scanner. I mean, really, a princess took control of a scanner?" The dark brown princess chuckled as the rest of the royal siblings laughed.

Jailbreak heard them laughing as she felt so insulted and miserable when her siblings teased her that way.

Just like everyday, emojis getting scanned, Jailbreak and the techs taking control of the scanner, but this time, the royal sibling were watching. The four princess loved to watch Gene getting scanned, but the princes whispered to each other of an unknown topic, which it got to be Gene. Most of all, the sibling silently laughed at their sister's job in the Text Center, which Jailbreak tried to ignore it.

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After that day, when Gene got off of his cube, he wanted to tag along with Jailbreak, but he saw her with her siblings, probably they forced her to leave early.

Gene finally realized why Jailbreak wanted to leave the phone in the first place. Not only she wanted to live in the Cloud to be whoever she wanted to be, but to get away from her family who forced her to be like a proper royal princess.

When Gene walked outside sadly, Mel caught up with him, and put his arm on his son's back to comfort him. He thought his son was tired.

"Son, are you alright?" He asked.

"I'm fine, Dad." Gene answered.

"That emotion didn't describe you as 'fine'. Tell me, what's wrong."

Gene exhaled. "I feel terrible for Jai—Princess Linda. I know why she ran away. She didn't get along with her family that much, and I want the two of us to be alone and do whatever we want."

Mel knew how Gene felt. This is like the same feeling he was when he discovered he was different from the other emojis. "Son, I wanted to help you, but I can't ask the king anymore. It's too much."

"I know, dad. I just want everything to be normal."

"It'll pass son. We need to be patient."

Unbeknownst to Mel and Gene, the keys of the supervisor office in Text Center were dropped as they were picked by an unknown emoji, and headed straight towards the Text Center.

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Meanwhile, Jailbreak and her siblings made it back to their mansion, where their parents were waiting.

"Glad you're home, children." The king greeted. "There's something that your mother and I want to tell all of you.., including you, Linda."

This announcement chocked Jailbreak as she and her siblings sat on their respective thrones.

"Linda, we have to discuss about your behaviour when you were with that malfunction Meh." The queen stated.

"Mom, for the last time, Gene is not a malfunction!" Jailbreak yelled.

"I don't care, darling. The point why we have to discuss is..."

"Before the queen finished her sentence, the king continued her sentence. "You have to stay away from that Meh!"

"WHAT?!" The princess exclaimed. "Why?!"

"That Meh is a bad influence for you." The king said.

"He didn't do anything wrong, dad!"

"Oh really." The king took a file from the butler who gave it to him, and showed the pictures of her and Gene hanging out. "You went outside Textopolis with this meh that a young princess, like you, shouldn't go to."

"We're just hanging out, Dad! There's nothing wrong of hanging out with friends."

"But in the Wallpaper?! Linda, you are a princess, and you should be dating a prince, not a meh!" You may see him, but you're not allowed to be with him all the time! He will ruin your status as a princess."

"But dad, he's my friend!"

"No, buts, it is done! Now, go to your room!"

Jailbreak let out few tears from her eyes, and ran up the stairs to her room as she cried.

When Princess Linda was gone, The king came closer to his other children, and said. "I'm proud of you! You surely watched over your sister the whole time."

"We just wanted to make you happy, father." The black-haired princess emoji smiled.

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