Time went on the lawyers worked and we tried to have a life. Our dinner Saturday went great. Sunday Zach and I went on a real date. Out to dinner and then to a movie. Some making out in his car before he took me home. As Christmas came he brought his family and I was adopted immediately by his mother who said I was the cutest young man. Anise won them over instantly as well. My sister had found that she loved Zach and she treated him just like another big brother. As school went on toward spring and graduation the parents were forced to drop most of their cases. The one that went to a hearing was the one to have him on the sexual predators list. They lost their case since he wasn't even arrested for anything and the investigation was dismissed. Zachs case for unjust firing was lost since he was questioned about me and the board had reason to doubt him. But he won the case for defamation of character and they were forced to put out a public apology to him as well as give him a severance package as part of the apology.
He did manage to find a job he was interested in, as a manager of a restaurant. Thought he admitted it was only temporary. He was putting in applications for jobs in some colleges as a teaching assistant. He was also talking about going back to school for a degree in psychology. I'd teased him about us going together. Then I found out we really were applying to a few of the same colleges. I had a silent wish that we'd really end up at the same school.
We were out on a date. It was April I only had three weeks of school left. We were at his place I was currently spread eagle on his bed, naked while he sucks and teases my cock. I'd been feeling bad all day and he'd teased that I just needed to be made love to so I'd feel better. I'd gone with it figuring that nothing could make my stomach worse. I was wrong. Shoving him off I sprint for his bathroom and puke into his toilet. My stomach cramped and I kept it up until I was dry heaving. He stood there holding my hips steadying me. My weak knees had me sinking to the floor. The cold tile floor and tub against my back felt good.
"How you feeling?" He asks grabbing a wet paper towel and wiping my face for me.
"Well my stomach stopped cramping finally. Totally ruined the the nice job you were doing." I say and laugh. He chuckles and grabs a towel to flip over my lap.
"I really think you should go to the doctor." He's telling me. "You've been feeling bad for two weeks. Now you've thrown up. We can just run to the immediate care it's probably just the flu or something. We need to go let them take a look."
"No. If I have to I'll make an appointment at my doctors. Then I don't have to go through my whole medical history. I'll call them tomorrow. For now I'm really tired take me to bed." He helps me up and tucks me into bed. "Hey where's my phone." he hands it over and I text dad telling him I'm staying at Zachs for the night. He just sends back a 'k'. They'd gotten really good about my relationship with Zach and butting out of it basically. Zach slips into bed with me and just holds me. In the morning I borrow some of his clothes and head home. It's the weekend so I'd have to wait till Monday to call the doctor.
Zach says he wants to go with me so I make the appointment for Friday afternoon when I know he'll be off. I get out of class early and much to my parents annoyance I don't let them come but let Zach meet me there. The doctor examines me and then draws some blood. Saying he's got a test he wants to do and he'll be back.
"I think he knows what it is and won't tell me. Which means it's not good." I tell Zach.
"It could be fine, just the flu."
"It could be cancer." I tell him. He frowns.
"Well thanks for putting that out there." The doctor comes back with a machine.
"Well?" I ask. He smiles trying for reassuring.
"Well I just want to do a little ultrasound and we'll see if it's something or just a false alarm."
"False alarm for what?"
"How much do you know about your birth?" He asks me.
"What's that got to do with anything?" He gets me laid back and pulls my pants down to get to my lower stomach.
"Indulge me."
"Mom always told me it took forever and that I was a little weak. I had to stay in the hospital for three weeks. She said that once I recovered I was fine. Is it something to do with why I was weak. Like cancer or something." I ask he immediately shakes his head.
"No." He winces and sighs. "This would be easier with you mother and father here."
"Why?"
"They could help me explain this to you."
"Explain what?"
"Have you ever heard of cases where a woman gets pregnant with twins and in the early development the twins actually absorb each other and it's only one baby?"
"Yeah it's creepy. Was I like that?" That was gross. He nods.
"Yes. But you had an unusual occurrence one that's never happened before to our knowledge." He turns and gets the machine going.
"What?"
"You have both male and female reproductive organs." I stare at him.
"What?" I look at Zach who is staring in shock at the doctor.
"The twin you absorbed was a girl. When your body continued to grow it reused all the genetic material but the uterus and ova. It attached to your rectum and continued to grow. At birth you had trouble moving your bowels. So we had to go in and repair you. We discovered it then. Your parents were told, and were told that it could be removed but it was possible to cause complications to you as you grew. Hormones could be affected, your rectum colon everything would be affected. They elected to leave it and hope it caused no problems. I don't know if you remember when you were young we did ultrasounds to check on you."
"Yeah mom said it was because of the whole thing when I was a baby just checking to make sure I was alright still. I never worried about it because she said I was fine. They hid from me that I have a..." I stare at him. "So what I'm a girl?" He chuckles. Looking up from the computer he shakes his head no.
"You are male. You just happen to have a uterus and ova." My head was trying to wrap around the fact that my parents who I loved and trusted had hid this from me. But...
"So what, something's gone wrong with it and made me sick?"
"Well that's what I'm trying to look at." He turns the screen around pushing my pants down further. "Alright, this is your uterus, see?" Yeah I saw the weird blob.
"Yeah."
"These are your Ovum. They look fine. What I needed to check after the results of your blood test was..." The screen warped as he moved it around and I hear him whistle. "Well I'll be damned you really are."
"I am what? It's cancer right. The things gone wrong right? I can have it removed and be fine right?"
"It's not cancer." He says chuckling. "I know whenever anything goes wrong people jump straight to that. No, you are pregnant." He says and points to a little gray blob on the screen. "This is your baby. You are pregnant. I'd say about twelve weeks. A nice little baby fully formed and looking good."
"He's pregnant?" Zach asks. I stare in shock. I feel panic and worry slam about in me.
"I'm going to be sick." The doctor grabs a basin and shoves it under me as I turn to my side. My pizza from school didn't taste very good coming back up. Zach holds me as I sit up and pull away from the doctor and the machine.
"This is impossible. I'm not pregnant. This is a sick joke and it's not funny." I try to stand but Zach keeps me sitting down.
"Take a deep breath you are going to hyperventilate." I take a deep breath and feel my panic calm just a little.
"I am not having a baby. I have graduation, college, life in general to to look forward to. I'm gay. I never figured on the baby thing. Guys don't do that. How can I be pregnant? I don't want to be pregnant. Can't I make it all go away?" I saw pain go through his face. I look at the doctor.
"I can make it all go away right? The whole mess right?" He sighs.
"Yes you are only about twelve weeks that's under the limit by law. We could do an abortion and then a hysterectomy. But I think you need to think about this. This is a rare thing. You have an opportunity to have something that other young men like yourself in same sex relationships don't have the option for. If you do a hysterectomy you could have hormonal complications. It's nothing to be taken lightly. You need to think about this calmly and talk to your boyfriend about this, your parents."
"Why? It's my body. I totally get the whole abortion argument now. I apologize to every girl everywhere for ever thinking they were horrible people for having an abortion."
"Angelo, this isn't just about you this about them, they exist, they are a real person you saw them. But let me be selfish for a minute. This is my baby you are carrying. You are just going to sit there and tell me you want to kill my baby. What's that say about me, us. Jesus Angelo." Zach snaps at me and drops into the chair to glare at me. Okay so I hadn't thought about that yet.
"I'm sorry. You are right, but I'm just freaking out a little here. How the hell do I have a baby? Am I even built for that?" I look at the doctor.
"No. You can get pregnant, which we weren't sure was really possible. But your body is not designed to birth a baby we'd have to do a cesarean for you. I know this is scary but before you leave take a lay back down I want to check on them some more." I nod and lay back down. Zach stands and takes my hand. I squeeze his hand getting him to look at me.
"I'm really sorry you are right. I might be carrying it but it's our baby. I'll admit this is some serious shit and we need to talk about this but Zach, I'm a guy you know what the world is going to do when they find out. They are going to freak. I'll be examined like an alien. I'll be all over the news if they find out. A guy having a baby. Come on I don't want that. I never thought I'd have kids. I'm gay."
"Never thought to adopt?" He asks.
"No. I figured we'd be the crazy old uncles that spoiled their nieces and nephews and had three cats."
"So you... you really don't want them?"
"I don't know. I just found out they exist I think I'm going to give it a day or two." Looking at the doctor I clear my throat. "Just so I know, are they alright?"
"Your daughter is great." I stared.
"Daughter?" I ask. He chuckles.
"It's a little early but after thirty years of this I've only been wrong twice. She's right on track for about twelve weeks. I stare at him. I knew I was doomed right then. It wasn't a faceless thing anymore. It was a little girl I was picturing just like Anise. I dropped my head back closing my eyes.
"A girl." I wiped the tears from my cheeks. I might be a freak, I might become an experiment for doctors everywhere but I was going to have a daughter.
"Angel you okay?" I open my eyes and look at him.
"You know you are totally marrying me right." He smiles.
"Really?"
"Hell yeah. If I'm going to be the male whale being pointed at everywhere we go because I'm pregnant with our daughter you are marrying me so you are legally required to endure all my yelling." He smiles and kisses me.
"I love you."
"You better, you knocked me up. God this is going to be fucked up. Andy's going to love this. I can just hear the teasing he's going to do. Anise will be confused and my parents. Oh god am I going to kill them for this."
"Don't be too hard on them. Our estimate on the odds of you actually getting pregnant were something like one in a hundred thousand."
"When did you figure that?"
"After you told them you were gay officially your mother called me and we discussed it. They were very worried about telling you. It's not something that's easy to tell your child." He was right. Not something easy to tell your own kid. I was still going to yell at them. The doctor handed me some printed pictures of the baby.
"Wow. Look at that you can see her arms and legs clearly." I say pointing.
"You look at those while I get a few things for you." Zach sat next to me.
"Are you really going to keep her?"
"Yes. Faceless baby is easy to think 'oh I'll make them leave' but... a little girl like Anise. No I can't just throw that away. I wasn't kidding about the marriage thing. This is going to be hard you know that."
"Yes and I'll be right here no matter what." The doctor came back gave me what I assumed was his normal new mom speech and a stack of things to read over before letting me leave. He wanted to see me in four weeks. Because of how weird this was for me he wanted to keep a close eye on me.
AN: I feel I should point out that I am taking some medical liberties. That should be obvious but I thought it should be said. Sometimes it's necessary in a semi-fantasy setting to take some liberties. I hope you like the chapter and are hoping for more really soon.