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.”

knob started to turn Katie realized that she was standing there in her underwear. Screeching she

“What the hell, Cole? I’m not dressed!”

friend Liam younger sister’s room. He wasn’t even sure he could see the floor. Raising his eyebrows,

we invited to a toga party I wasn’t aware of?”

Katie rolled her eyes,

used to see you run naked across

been best friends with Liam for as long as Katie could remember.

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

haven’t run naked in the yard for over ten years,” Katie frowned

shooting through her. Stupid second trimester, it was causing havoc with her hormones. Here she was ready to jump Cole. Obviously, she was

you have your brother’s panties in a twist. So, throw

Katie felt a pinching behind her eyes, those damn hormones! “Nothing fits,

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.

her bedroom doorway. “What the hell happened

“Fashion crisis,” Cole

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

the discarded pile. “If you didn’t insist on wearing those

trembled. “I’m fat now. I will just get uglier and uglier.”

awkwardly patted her head. “Can we skip today and get the

want to skip. But he knew what an emotional mess Katie could be. And this pregnancy