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. Screeching she grabbed a

Cole? I’m not

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

toga party I wasn’t

rolled her eyes, “I

see you run naked across the yard on

next door to the McCannons and had been best

Katie’s parents were struck in a hit and run accident a year ago, Liam had been eighteen and was able to keep

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

Katie couldn’t help a wave of lust shooting through her. Stupid second

you have your brother’s panties in a twist.

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

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

 Cole quipped.

Katie wanted to throw something at him, preferably a spiked heel. “Nothing

“If you didn’t insist

trembled. “I’m fat now. I will just get

went over to Katie and awkwardly patted her head. “Can we skip today and get the girl some clothes?”

not want to skip. But he knew what an emotional mess Katie could be. And this pregnancy thing threw in a wild card that he had no idea