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I wish I owned High School Musical.Adoption
The next day after school Troy was taking Gabriella over to his house to hang out for a little while. So Jack and Lucille Bolton just invited Gabriella over for dinner. Troy and Gabi thought that this would be the perfect opportunity for them to tell his parents about the baby.
During dinner Troy and Gabriella were unusually quiet. His parents didn't know what was going on and were a little worried. Then all of a sudden Gabriella clamped her hand over her mouth and ran straight for the bathroom. Troy got up and ran to go help her.
Holding her hair out of her face and rubbing her back soothingly Troy whispered, "I'm sorry. I thought it's called morning sickness?"
"Yeah but I get in at night." She replied after throwing up for five minutes.
When she was positive she wasn't going to throw up anymore they both walked back to the dinner table.
"Are you all right sweetie?" Lucille asked.
"Yeah, I'm okay; my stomach has been hurting a little bit." Gabriella lied. Nobody said anything else about the matter.
After dinner Troy and Gabriella were in his bedroom while Lucille cleaned up dinner and Jack watched a basketball game in the living room.
"Are you ready?" Troy asked Gabriella who was cradled up against his chest, both lying down on his bed.
"No, what if they get so mad they kick you out? I don't want to be the reason for that."
"Baby, we have to tell them eventually. So let's just do it now and whatever will be, will be."
"Okay, just don't leave my side all right?"
"I promise." Troy decided that he wasn't only promising to stay by her side tonight but for the rest of this journey, and their lives. It was a promise he vowed to keep.
"I love you." Gabriella said softly.
"I love you more."
Troy, Gabriella, and Mr. and Mrs. Bolton were all sitting down in the living room in a dead silence. Neither Troy nor Gabriella knew what to say.
"So you said you needed to talk to us about something important? Well let's hear it." Jack said breaking the silence.
"Um…"Troy decided to be the one to speak after looking down at Gabriella and seeing how scared she was.
"Yeah, um…we didn't mean for this to happen but it just did. And before you get really mad we want you to know that we've already decided on what we want to do and would really like your guy's help."
"Troy, what's going on?" Jack asked raising his voice a little.
"Gabriella's pregnant." Troy whispered in a voice barely audible to his parents.
After the words left his mouth everyone had very different reactions. Gabriella started sobbing, Lucille looked directly at Gabriella with sympathy, and Jack's eyes widened but not in anger Troy noticed but rather in shock.
Jack scared them all by standing up so quickly that the chair he was sitting in fell over, and yelled, "You got her pregnant?"
"Dad, please don't be mad, I already told you we know what we're going to do so please don't yell. Don't you think we're going through enough already?" Troy didn't really want anything else to upset Gabriella anymore, so yelling was something he wanted to keep to a minimal.
"Jack? Don't." Lucille said softly. She then got up and walked over to where Troy and Gabriella were sitting and kneeled in front of Gabriella and said, "Sweetheart?"
Gabriella turned her head to look at Troy's mom, and then was pulled into a bone-crushing hug. "Honey let's go to the kitchen so we can talk and so we can let them talk too all right?"
Gabriella nodded and headed to the kitchen with Lucille's arms wrapped around her.
When his mom and Gabriella were out of earshot Troy waited for the onslaught that was about to begin. But when he looked up at his dad he saw that Jack was sitting in the chair he picked up with his head in his hands.
"How could you be so irresponsible Troy? We talked about being safe. What were you thinking?" Jack yelled.
"Dad we were always being safe, we don't know what happened. Look I know you're pissed as hell but right now…"Troy started crying. "I really need you to be my dad. I mean we've talked about adoption but dad I'm scared out of my mind. I don't know what do to. Please help me. I need you to help me. Please?" Troy begged.
Jack has of course seen Troy cry many times before back when he was a young boy but now it was something totally different, he has never seen him so broken, so lost, so afraid. And that thought made Jack cry himself.
"Okay, I'll see what I can do." Jack said grabbing his son and holding him tight.
Back in the kitchen both Gabriella and Lucille were sobbing and hugging when Troy and Jack walked in, both with red eyes. Gabriella broke away from Lucille and ran right into Troy's arms and they just held each other while Jack and Lucille did the exact same thing. Minutes later they were all back in the living room listening to Jack, who was on the phone with a friend of his who had adopted before.
"Okay, he gave me a number of a Mr. Andrews, who works at an adoption agency. You're sure this is something you both want to do?"
Troy and Gabriella both nodded at his question.
"All right I'll make the call and ask him to meet us sometime."
Twenty minutes later Jack came back from the kitchen and told everyone that they could meet tomorrow afternoon at the agency.
Jack offered to take both teenagers to the agency and talk about everything with them so they didn't feel overwhelmed with all the information they were about to receive. When they got to the agency they waited for 20 minutes then were all brought into Mr. Andrew's office.
"Hello, you must Mr. Bolton. I'm John Andrews," said a tall brown haired man with thick eyeglasses.
"Hello nice to meet you, this is my son Troy and his girlfriend Gabriella."
"Hello, please take a seat. So you are interested in adopting?"
"No, they're," Jack said pointing to Troy and Gabriella, "going to have a baby and…."
"Are interested in adoption." Mr. Andrews finished for Jack. "Well let's get started then."
For the next hour Mr. Andrews told the three of them everything about adoption that they wanted to know, of their options and what would be the best for them, and all of the different forms of adoption, such as open adoption, which immediately caught Troy and Gabriella's attention.
Giving our baby to a nice family and being able to see it on occasion would be amazing they both thought.
AN: Okay, I'm hoping that this is a good chapter. Please review. xoxo and I forgot to mention but this story will have Monica and Chandler from Friends as the adoptive parents. I'm not sure if you could call it a crossover but that's who I wanted Troy and Gabriella's baby to go to. But they won't come in for another chapter or so.