All things have a consequence

Note Some of the Stores in this chapter are made up and others are real ones, the real ones i don't own the stores also if the made up ones are actually real stores then that is by pure chance.

The Reaction

Troy awoke to unusual but very nice scene, his friends Chad, Ryan, Zeke, and Jason were in his room cleaning the place. He sat up and was about to ask what they were doing when the door open and enter, Gabriella and Taylor both carrying some plates. Behind them was Kelsi holding a carrying table and sat it on Troy’s bed and Gabriella laid down the plates of pancakes and bacon. His mom follow suit and gave Troy a glass full of orange juice and some toasts.

“This is nice and all but why are you guys here?” Troy asked looking at his friends.

“Well, since your carrying a child now we knew that you would be needing attention and care,” Gabriella said. “We all thought that we could help out by doing cleaning and making things as easy as possible.”

“Yeah I figure I owe it to you after the way I’ve been treating you,” Chad said.

“What you going to do all of my chores?” Troy asked jokingly.

“Everything but your homework,” Ryan said then Troy notice something was odd and out of sorts.

“Hey Ryan, Where’s Sharpay, the two of you are rarely apart.” Troy asked.

“She should have been here sometime ago she agreed to help us do some shopping,” Troy’s mom said “Miss Evans said that she was going to be a little late as that she went to get something.”

“Shopping?” Troy asked “For who?”

“For you, were going to need to get you some new clothes to wear as your pregnancy moves along your current clothes won’t fit you at all.” Taylor said “Maybe we should get him a bra as well according to that paper there a small chance that his breast may develop like girls do, even produce milk for breast feeding.” Troy shuddered as he remember the same thing.

“Hey sorry I’m late,” Sharpay said entering the room “but it’s really crowded out there.”

“Huh!?!? What do you mean Sharpay?” Ryan asked her.

“Have anyone looked outside lately?” Sharpay asked looking at them and no one said yes, so she walked over to Troy’s window and open the curtain and the window “GO take a look and see what I mean?”

One by one they all looked out the window in the direction of the front yard only to see a large group of people there. The group seem to consist mostly news reporters, and some protesters, but from where they were at it was hard to tell. When Troy looked at he figure they were here because of him and him being pregnant. In fact he was right as when one person from the group notice Troy, he ducked back in as they all screamed his name and tried to take his pictures.

“Man, where did they all come from?” Chad asked once Troy was back closing the window and shutting the curtain. “I mean they weren’t here when we arrived early this morning.”

“Don’t know but I had to spend fifteen minutes trying to get through that crowd to get in.” Sharpay said brushing her hair a bit. “Many of them were reporters wanting to ask if it’s true that you are pregnant.”

“What did you say?” Troy asked worried that she told them.

“Nothing,” Sharpay said “but they’re going to find out one way or another.”

“Maybe but I don’t need the whole world on my case,” Troy said sitting down on his bed.

“Well your going to face them today,” his mom said “Because your still going clothes shopping. Now get dress.”

“Not with us in here!” Kelsi said rushing to the door, followed by the other girls and his mom. Troy laughed as he got dressed and finished his breakfast. Chad and the guys stayed and finish cleaning the room then join Troy as he went downstairs.

“Good let’s go!” Taylor said. “Oh wait how are we going to get through that crowd?”

“Well I got a mini-van,” Mrs. Balton said. “But I don’t really want to run over people to get out.”

“Well they’re going to rush us one way or another,” Troy said might as well as face them now. You get the van ready, mom.”

Troy walked outside and was immediately rushed by reporters all asking him if it’s true about his pregnancy. When he didn’t say anything instead tried to move past them they started to ask about his rape and if the father of the child was indeed his dad. This made Troy mad and when he got through them he was faced by not one but three groups of protesters. They were all holding signs that showed stuff from how sex was suppose to between a guy and a girl to how only girls were suppose to give birth.

“SINNER!!” the first group was shouting, obviously religious people who were against same sex relationship. “How dare you defile the laws of God!”

“MONSTER! FREAK! FILTHY BASTARD!!” were all he heard as he tried to get by them, the second group were against him being a pregnant guy, and by his own dad. Troy couldn’t tell what the third group was protesting about. They seem to be mix of anti-abortion to government involvement. ‘Obviously the report on that rare gene not out to the public yet.’ Troy thought as he made his way to the road where his mom and friends were waiting. However just as Troy was entering the van he was grabbed by the protesters and was held down as the group began to perform a speech.

“This child is a disgrace to the good name of our lord,” someone said, Troy was unable to see who it was as he wasn’t allowed to get up “he has sold his soul to the devil himself! He has engage in incestuous activity with his father and now he bears a child surely he is in league with the devil! We must cleanse this child of the evil in him!!!” Troy’s eyes widen in fear as to what this could meant. He quickly curled up trying to protect his stomach as he felt signs began to smack him and kicks to his chest. Just as the beating began it ended and Troy found out why when he looked up, Chad had made his way into the group and pulled Troy out, taking a good beating in the process. This made the group angry and was about to charge them when Ryan and the others step in.

“How can you say that! This wasn’t something Troy planned! He was raped by his drunken father which lead to him being pregnant because of a rare gene.” Gabriella said.

“Yeah, he didn’t want this but he’s not going to take the easy way out by going to get an abortion.” Chad said picking Troy up. “You guys have no right to judge Troy for things he didn’t have control over. Now leave before we call the police!”

“This is not over yet. The righteous shall prevail and the sinner shall fall!” the leader of the religious group said as all three groups of protesters left, the reporters were still there wanting their questions to be answered still. They all got in the van and took off Taylor tend to Chad’s wounds as Gabriella looked at Troy for any.

“You okay Troy?” Chad asked.

“I should be asking the same thing about you.” Troy said “but yeah I’m fine might not have been if you didn’t come along.”

“I’ve been through worse, but I’ll live.” Chad said with a smile “It was nothing, I mean that what’s friends are for right?”

“Yeah that what friends are for,” Troy said with a smile of his own and gave Chad a high-five. The rest of the ride was in quiet until they reached the mall when Troy seen that something about it was off. “Hey what gives the mall empty? It’s Saturday how can that be?”

“Oh! That be my doing,” Sharpay said turning to face them from the front seat. “I arrange with the mall owners to give us the mall to us for five hours after that it back to being open to the public again.”

“Why?” Troy asked.

“I figure after what happen yesterday and now this morning I’m sure you would prefer little attention as possible.” Sharpay said.

“How did you manage that though?” Taylor asked unable to think that anyone had that kind of influence.

“It was easy since our family do own 90% of the mall but remember we only have five hours to do our shopping now.” Sharpay said as his mom parked the van in front of the main doors. They all got out together and headed into the mall.

“Okay so where do we go first?” Zeke asked once inside. “I mean do we just go around from store to store?”

“No we can’t do that,” Mrs. Balton said “Normal clothes would stretch out or be way to tight once the pregnancy really began to show. No we’ll have to go to a specialty store, like ‘Mommy to be’ which is a store that specializes in pregnant clothing.” she started to head that way then paused and turn back red in the face “Well maybe not that one it does have the clothing that Troy would need but it’s a woman and I don’t think he would like to cross-dress.”

“You’re right on that on” Troy said his and the rest of the guys were all blushing at that thought. “But we might want to take a look at it incase we can’t find nothing else.”

“Well I have a store in mind, it’s called the ‘Big Store’” Jason said “it’s specialize on big and tall clothing’s going up to 5 extra large (a/n that XXXXXL and the tag) it is a start.”

“Hmm, not a bad idea where is it?” Mrs. Balton asked.

“Well, it’s by ‘Master Cuts’ and across from ‘Gamestop.com’,” Jason said leading the way.

Inside the store that they went to they tried on some of the clothing in question focusing on the largest clothing possible. Troy tried ten different types of shirts, he didn’t know if these would really work. Yes they were large enough but would they stretch out and cover himself that he didn’t know. He shrugged and took ten plain blue five extra large shirts and 3 extra large (XXXL) sweat pants. After that they went to some other clothes checking it out to see if they might have stuff like that. After wondering around for about 2 ½ hours they sat down at a bench.

“This stinks out of fifty stores that focuses on clothing only that ‘Big Store’ had clothing to the size that Troy would need for sure.” Kelsi said huffing as Gabriella and Zeke went over to a vending machine and got them all some bottled water. “Thanks Gabriella” she said taking the water and took a quick drink.

“No problem but where else can we go?” Gabriella said sitting next to Troy “I mean the only place left is that ‘Mother to Be’ store that was mention by Mrs. Balton do we go there next?”

“Well might as well give it a go,” Chad said catching the bottle of water that Troy threw at him “Hey I mean it’s the only place left and we can see about getting the least girly looking clothes for you man.”

“I guess we can go, it better then going to school with a big old gut showing.” Troy said then he looked at his mom “So where is it?”

“It’s right behind us,” Ryan said pointing to the store with a big old stork on it with the word ‘Mother to Be’ across it. “So there no need to hurry over there is there now.”

“Yeah but might as well get it over.” Troy said getting up and walked over to the store “You all don’t have to do though.” Only his mom, Gabriella, and Ryan came with him. Inside the store it was filled with everything from cribs to diapers, and everything in-between Troy was stunned and a little nervous ‘How am I going to explain this to the employees?’ Troy thought as he and Ryan were looking at the cribs. His mom was talking with Gabriella about some of the baby clothes. “Man, these cribs are kind of expensive don’t you agree?” Troy asked looking at the one that cost about $400, it was about 3’ tall made of soft plastic and padded everywhere. It was also the cheapest of all of the cribs.

“Well everybody concern about safety,” Ryan said “and it’s not cheap. Are you going to need one?”

“Yes,” Mrs. Balton said joining them with Gabriella “Jack and I sold are old one in a garage sell, some years ago.”

“Can I help you people?” a salesclerk asked walking a to them, she was young maybe late 20’s with long red hair. “Is there something you need?”

“Um, yes we need to get some clothes,” Mrs. Balton said “I got a grandchild coming and we want to be prepared.”

“OH! Isn’t that wonderful and you young lady must be the lucky one, so which one of you two gentlemen the father?” the salesclerk asked looking at Gabriella then looked at Troy and Ryan. She paused at Troy like he reminded her of someone.

“I don’t know how to explain this very well but the one who is pregnant is my son Troy.” Mrs. Balton said putting her arm on her son.

“Wait your TROY Balton, the Troy Balton who is in the news,” the clerk said “OH! MY! GOSH! I can’t believe you came to our store! Please stay here I’ll be right back with the manager.” She took off, leaving them in a state of confusion, and five minutes later she return with another lady approximately the same age and was of the oriental ethics with short black hair. “THAT’S him the one in the news!” she said as they approach Troy.

“You’re the one they’re all talking about, the pregnant boy?” the manager asked.

“I wasn’t aware that I was that popular to be in the news but yes I’m the guy who’s pregnant,” Troy said shaking her hand when she offered it.

“Due to a rare gene am I correct?” the manager asked, Troy jaw dropped when she said that ‘I thought that wasn’t out to the public yet?’ Troy thought. “Judging by your reaction that is the case. You have no idea how excited I am as well as my friend here. Ever since we received the notification about that gene from the some government agency, I was afraid that the special room we install was going to go to waste.”

“Special room?” Troy asked.

“Yes it was made by us to hold clothing for pregnant men,” the manager said “we’re one of the few stores to receive shipments of such clothing. Please follow me.”

Troy followed her to the back, his mom and friends right behind him. They reached the back where a door was, which the manager unlocked. Inside was racks and shelves of clothing’s waiting to be bought. Troy looked at them noticing that none of them was girly looking in fact most of them were plain looking with a few that have designs on them, including but not limited to their high school logo.

“Take a look at them they are all design to stretch around the stomach once you reach that period of time,” the manager said grabbing a basic green t-shirt “they can be worn anytime and when you reached the end of your pregnancy the fabric will stretched out and it won’t feel uncomfortable or tight and very little risk to the baby. There are others design for you when are near the end, mainly the fifth through the ninth months. go ahead and get what you want.”

Troy nodded and looked around and grab over $300 worth of clothing, including the one that had his school logo. Back in the main room his mom grab the crib that Troy was looking at early and some basic baby clothes. The others had join Troy by now and was helping carry some of the stuff. Taylor and Kelsi picked up some basic toys and items (bottles, etc…) Ryan and Sharpay helped Troy and his mom pay for the stuff. Then they all headed back to the van and return home. At the house Troy was relieved that the reporters were gone but now there were some other people in their yard yelling at Dr. Oakland!?!?! They pulled in and Troy walked up to Dr. Oakland with Chad and Ryan close behind as the others quickly put the items into the house.

“Dr. Oakland? What are you here?” Troy asked when he reached her.

“To stop these men from getting involve with something that they have no business in,” She said her eyes never leaving from them.

“And they are?” Troy asked.

“We are scientists from the local University, one that helped did the study on the rare gene and we are here to see if you would be interested in volunteering yourself to be study and researched on?” one of the men asked.

“You mean be an experiment?” Ryan said.

“No, not like that!” another one said “It just that the few people who did have the gene and volunteer to be allowed to get pregnant the infant didn’t make it past the first month and we believe according to Dr. Oakland your child will actually be the first living child because of this gene. We just want to study your development and the child after it’s birth.”

“So in other words be your guinea pig,” Troy said “sorry but I refuse. I got school to do and I need to make preparation for what I want and need to do once I graduate. There no way I’m going to let you turn me into some research resource.”

“Please listen to what we have to say!” the first one spoke again.

“NO! Now go before I call the police and have them remove you!” Troy said and watched them leave. “Thank you for sticking up for me Dr. Oakland.”

“Don’t mention it,” she said “But it is my fault they know, I told them trying to get some info about the others guys when I was told about your little problem at your school. Putting that aside it is your life and you should live it the way you think is best for you, that and I want to be the one to deliver this child.”

“Like I would have some one else do it?” Troy said with a laugh “I’ll see you next month then.” Dr. Oakland nodded yes and left and Troy join his friend in the house to put up the clothes and what not.

The next chapter will be up soon