Two weeks later Nick and Jeff found themselves on Nick's laptop again doing research on what their baby looked like at seven weeks.
"It looks like a dinosaur." Jeff said, frowning a little.
"You haven't been cheating on me with a t-rex?" Nick said, laughing a little. "So, how are you feeling?"
"Ah, like I'm constantly hung over. Sorta. Just generally terrible, I guess…Can you hand me my lemon drops?" Jeff said, hand outstretched lazily as he pointed towards a small bottle beside Nick.
Nick scrunched up his nose a little as he handed the bottle to Jeff. "How can you drink that? Isn't it gross?"
"Incredibly gross but it helps me deal with feeling like I'm going to puke so…" He said, trailing off as he took a few drops. "Yuck, gross."
"Woah, his skull is see-through right now! That's so awesome." Nick exclaimed, showing Jeff the site he was on.
"She has a mouth too." Jeff said in awe. He lifted up his shirt to stare at his stomach. He wasn't showing yet because he was still early in his pregnancy.
"Hey Jeff?"
"Yeah?"
"Are we going to tell the Warblers? I mean, it's up to you. I mean, we haven't really talked about it and it's going to start getting really hard to hide soon."
Jeff bit his lip. "I…I want to…but not yet. I'm scared of how they'll react…Can we wait a little while longer?"
Nick smiled and kissed Jeff's forehead. "Of course. We'll wait until you're ready to say anything. Just know that I'll be there right beside you…You won't even have to say anything if you don't want to, I can."
Jeff kissed Nick's lips and smiled sweetly. "I love you Nicky."
"I love you too Jeffie."
Jeff laughed a little. "You better. After all I'm carrying your kid!" The two of them had gotten used to the idea of Jeff being pregnant for the most part. Jeff had started seeing a therapist to help with the psychological aspect of being a pregnant boy and Nick went with him for support. They had begun to learn to accept it, knowing that since Jeff was against getting an abortion that there was no point in pretending it wasn't real.
"And I love you all the more for that." Nick said as he flopped down on Jeff's bed. Jeff wiggled over to Nick and cuddled up to him.
"I'm going to get fat soon."
"Not fat. Pregnant."
"Doesn't matter, my abs will be gone." Jeff said a little sadly. Ever since Jeff was called chubby once by his first crush in sixth grade he had been very self-conscious about his body.
Nick frowned a little before kissing Jeff's temple. "Jeff, don't be like that. You'll see be super hot and literally perfect. Like always."
Jeff yawned. "I'm tired. Can we take a nap?"
Nick smiled a little. "Well considering it's a Saturday, sure." A few minutes later the two were fast asleep.
Two weeks later Nick and Jeff were sitting in the doctor's office with Jeff laying on the table, shirt lifted as the doctor pulled out the ultrasound.
"Ready?" He asked. Jeff simply nodded.
The gel was placed on his stomach and Jeff shivered. "Cold." Jeff whined a little and Nick grabbed his hand. "Hey doc? I have a question…but it's a little embarrassed…"
"Go right ahead Jeffrey."
Jeff nodded. "Right…well, my boyfriend and I have been uh, on this website that like tracks your pregnancy and tells you a bunch of stuff about it and it said around nine weeks your…your uh breasts start to get bigger and I was just wondering if, you know…if that was gonna happen to me…" Jeff said, feeling incredibly awkward.
The doctor paused for a moment. "Well, to be honest, I've never dealt with a male pregnancy patient so I can't really give you an answer. However, every pregnancy is different and some women do not experience any growth in the breast area. For you I doubt that will happen though."
Jeff let out a breath of relief. "Good."
"C-can I ask something?" Nick suddenly asked.
"Sure."
"Uh, well I was wondering about the whole birth aspect thing…I mean how is it going to come out?"
"That's a good question. We are planning on preforming a c-section when your due date arrives." The two just nodded. The doctor replied as he started to check the ultrasound. "Well, since you are nine weeks along we should be able to find the heartbeat." He scanned Jeff's stomach for a few more moments before finding it. "And here it is."
Jeff gasped a little, feeling his heart skip a beat. It wasn't until that moment that either of the two really realized that they were going to be pregnant. "There's a baby in there." Jeff said, staring at his still flat stomach as if it grew a face.
"Yeah…" Was all Nick was able to get out.
"In a few weeks you'll find out the gender as well." The doctor said, smiling a little.
The couple were there for another hour, talking to their doctor. They were more than happy to be back in their dorm. "Nicky, we need to tell our parents soon." Jeff said, sounding a little worried. "It's been a month since we found out and the doctor's gonna start sending overdue bills to my house."
Nick sighed. "Yeah, I know. We'll tell them this weekend, alright? We'll tell your mom over lunch, since she already knows about the whole boy, girl thing so it'll be less shocking and we'll tell my parents over dinner. Okay?"
Jeff nodded. "Alright."
"So why did you two decide to drop by for the weekend?" Ms. Sterling asked as she took a sip of her tea.
Jeff bit his lip and Nick grabbed his hand reassuringly. "Well mom…I uh…Well I found out that I have female parts. I went to the doctor about a month ago."
Ms. Sterling let out a small gasp. "Jeffrey, honey, I was going to tell you…I just needed to find the right time."
"It doesn't matter." Jeff said, shaking his hand. "But uh, well I'm uh…I'm…" Jeff couldn't say it, he was too nervous so Nick cut in.
"Pregnant."
"What?"
"He's pregnant." Nick said, trying to remain calm while Jeff started crying hysterically. His emotions had been going crazy the last few days. Nick gave Jeff a sympathetic look as he pulled him in for a hug. "It's alright Jeff. Shh." He said soothingly.
Ms. Sterling sighed. "I should have said something when you came out."
"Yeah, you should have!" Jeff screamed as he continued sobbing.
"I'm sorry Jeffrey. I just never imagined this would happen. I should have told you but you two should have used a condom!"
"We did!" Jeff yelled. "They don't always work."
"Especially when your boyfriend buys the wrong size." Nick mumbled under his breath.
"Nicky!" Jeff exclaimed.
"You bought regular size and it broke." Nick said, shrugging a little.
"No but I don't want to have this conversation in front of my mom!" Jeff yelled annoyed as he continued to cry.
Ms. Sterling coughed awkwardly and the two boys' attention were brought back to her. "Well, I'm not exactly happy that my youngest son, who's only sixteen, is…well pregnant but there's no use in being angry now. How far are you?"
"A little over nine weeks." Jeff mumbled.
"Are you keeping it or putting it up for adoption?" She asked and Nick and Jeff just looked at each other. They hadn't really talked about if they wanted to keep it or not.
"I um…we haven't really talked about it…Jeff, it's your decision. I'll support you no matter what." Nick said a little awkwardly.
"I don't think I could give it up…if that's alright. I know that being in school and trying to raise a baby isn't easy but…I really don't want to give her up…"
"Him." Nick corrected.
Jeff shot Nick a glare. "It's a girl. And Dalton actually has a daycare at school. They started it last year after like ten teachers had children. The Dean said that if I wanted to we could use it too…"
Ms. Sterling smiled a little. "Well then, I guess I'm going to be a grandmother…"
"So you're really okay with this?" Jeff asked a little nervously.
"I…I'm willing to support you and do whatever I can to help." Ms. Sterling said, smiling a little.
Nick let out a sigh of relief. "Great. That's one family down, one to go."
Jeff bit his lip nervously. "Do we have to tell them? Can't they just never know ever?" Nick's parents never liked Jeff. They weren't fond of him as a child because they thought he was a bad influence. Then two years ago when Nick came out they blamed Jeff because he had come out a month earlier. Then when the two started a year ago Nick's parents dislike for Jeff turned into a hatred of the blond.
Nick squeezed Jeff's hand. "It'll be fine Jeff. I promise."
"They'll yell at me." Jeff whined.
"I won't let them." Nick said, sternly.
About two hours later Nick and Jeff were sitting down at the Duval's dinner table. "So Nicholas, why have you two decided to come by?" Mr. Duval said, sternly, shooting a glare at Jeff who squirmed around awkwardly in his chair.
"Well we have an announcement." Nick said, taking a bite of his pasta.
Mrs. Duval sneered. "Oh God, please say you aren't engaged. You're just going through a phase and you're only sixteen Nicholas. Don't ruin your life on him."
Jeff flinched a little by the harshness of her words. She was acting like he wasn't even there. Nick frowned. "I'm not going through a phase mom. I'm gay. And Jeff and I aren't engaged but if we were I wouldn't be ruining my life. I'd be bettering it."
Jeff smiled a little when he heard Nick standing up for him. And basically saying that he wanted to get married to Jeff.
Mr. Duval frowned. "He's ruining your life Nicholas. He's a bad influence and he turned you into one of them! Your mother and I have done everything we can to fix you! We sent you to corrective straight camps! We even let you stay in our house! His father left! You're lucky I didn't-"
"Enough!" Nick yelled. "You sent me away to stupid straight camps and it didn't work! I'm gay! Gay! That isn't going to change and I love Jeff. He didn't turn me gay, I was born gay. Jeff's dad left because he's an ass! It has nothing to do with Jeff. Jeff is perfect so don't talk about him like that!"
"He is a bad influence Nicholas!" His mother started. "He turned you gay and-"
"And I got him pregnant!" Nick yelled out before realizing what he was even saying. "Shit." He mumbled under his breath when he saw the look on his parents face.
"So you're dating a freak!" Mr. Duval yelled.
"He isn't a freak! He's perfect! Let's go Jeff." Nick said, grabbing Jeff's hand and storming out. It wasn't until they were in Nick's car that he said anything else. "You were right. We shouldn't have said anything to them." Nick looked over at Jeff who was crying. Nick frowned. "Jeff, don't listen to them. Baby, you're perfect. They don't know what they're talking about. Fuck them. We still have each other and we have your moms support. We'll make it. Everything will be alright. I promise."
"C-can we just go home? I want to take a nap." Jeff said, sniffling.
Nick smiled weakly at his boyfriend. "Of course we can Jeff."
"I'm huge." Jeff whined as he flopped down on Nick's bed.
Nick frowned a little before lifting up Jeff's shirt. "You aren't huge Jeff. You just started showing. It doesn't even look like you're pregnant. Just a little bloated."
Jeff shot Nick a glare. "Thanks." He said sarcastically.
"Sorry, you know what I mean."
Jeff sighed. "Yeah…" The last few weeks Jeff was starting to notice changes in his body, though small enough that none of the other Warblers noticed. He did have to get new uniforms though and he self-consciously started wearing a vest under his jacket to hide the very small bump that in his mind made him look ten months pregnant. "And to think I'm only 13 weeks…but at least the first trimester thing is almost over…Oh God, and that's when I'm supposed to start getting really huge." Jeff whined.
Nick gave Jeff a sympathetic look. "Sorry, now, let's get ready. Class starts in like an hour." He said, kissing Jeff on the lips. "And Jeff?"
"Yeah?"
"You look fantastic."
Jeff smiled a little. "Thanks."
"Jeff! Wake up!" Nick said, tugging at his foot a little. "Time to get up."
"I can't. I'm too busy being pregnant to go to class. I don't think I can walk with this giant stomach."
Nick rolled his eyes at Jeff. He was so dramatic sometimes. "Jeff, you're fifteen weeks. You are barley even showing."
"I can barley see my feet when I stand Nicky." Jeff whined. If was beginning to become obvious that Jeff had put on some weight and the other Warblers were starting to notice. Especially when they asked Jeff to dance and he always turned them down. They just chalked his weight gain up to Jeff's sudden lack of exercise, stress, and midnight snacks. None of them wanted to be that guy so none of them bothered to ask or say anything to him.
"Well if you're that big, maybe we should think about telling the guys." Nick said casually. Nick hated keeping secrets from his friends, especially one this big. He had wanted to tell the guys a week after they found out but he wanted to wait until Jeff was ready, which seemed like the blond wouldn't be ready until their child's eighteenth birthday.
Jeff sighed. "I know we should…and we will. Just…not right now. It isn't super obvious right now so we don't have to."
"They're starting to say things. Just so you know."
"Say things? Like what?"
Nick sighed. "Don't be offended or get upset, alright?"
Jeff nodded. "I wont."
"Just that you've gained some weight and they noticed the whole pickles and ice cream thing. They don't think you're pregnant or anything…They've just been noticing things and are watching you closer than normal."
"Oh." Jeff said, starting to tear up a little. "So they just think I'm some big fat, lazy loser who eats everything in sight." He said, suddenly bitter.
"No! They don't Jeff. They're just worried about you. That's all. They care. I promise." Nick said, going to hug Jeff but Jeff pulled away.
"Sorry…I just…when you hug me you can feel my giant stomach sticking out…and it makes me feel gross."
"You're still sexy Jeffie. Promise." He said, leaning over so that he could kiss his boyfriend. "But we still need to tell them soon."
"I know, I know." Jeff whined. "Uh, remind me to get a bigger uniform after class. This one is starting to get a little tight."