Once Upon Series

Katie blew out another breath as she tried to squeeze into her jeans, but it was pointless. There was no way they were going on. Ripping them off her legs, Katie threw them onto the increasing pile of things that she could no longer wear.

Trying not let it get the best of her, she turned back to her closet.

“Kat get your butt down here! We are going to be late for school!” her older brother Liam bellowed from the kitchen.

“I’m not going!” Katie knew she sounded like a two-year-old. But how many seventeen-year-old girls out there were dealing with a pregnant belly?

Katie could hear Cole, Liam’s best friend’s rumbly voice. That was perfect. She only needed more witnesses to her humiliation.

“Katie-cat,” Cole’s voice was just outside of her door. “What is the problem? Are you feeling sick again?”

Most of Katie’s first trimester had been hellish. Whoever named it morning sickness, is a complete numbskull. It was an all day, every day, puke fest.

Katie had even lost five pounds on her small frame. The doctor had been concerned and even pulled Liam in to speak with him about it.

“I’m fine, Cole,” Katie yelled through the door.

“If you are fine, I’m coming in.”

was standing there in her underwear.

“What the hell, Cole? I’m

he could see the floor. Raising his eyebrows, he glanced over to where Katie was standing with a blanket wrapped around her.

“Were we invited to a toga

eyes, “I wasn’t dressed.”

you run naked across

Cole lived next door to the McCannons and had been best friends with Liam for as

a hit and run accident a year ago, Liam had been

haven’t run naked in the yard for

a wave of lust shooting through her. Stupid second trimester, it was causing havoc with her hormones. Here she was ready to jump Cole. Obviously, she was out of her mind.

the pity,” Cole sighed. “Now, you have your brother’s panties in a twist. So, throw something on,

eyes, those damn hormones! “Nothing fits, and I am not going to school

that people thought she was a slut because she was seventeen and pregnant. Friends that she had known for years completely dropped her. It wasn’t a secret that Katie got a little wild after her parents passed. Everyone deals with grief in their own way.

Liam was in her bedroom doorway. “What

crisis,” Cole quipped.

Katie wanted to throw something at him, preferably a spiked heel. “Nothing fits, I’m not going to school

you didn’t insist on wearing those damn skinny jeans.”

fat now. I will just get uglier and uglier.”

hell,” Cole went over to Katie and awkwardly patted her head. “Can

what an emotional mess Katie could be. And this pregnancy thing threw in a wild card that he had no