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.”

that she was standing there in her underwear. Screeching she grabbed a blanket from the bed

“What the hell, Cole? I’m not

friend Liam younger sister’s room. He wasn’t even sure he could see

we invited to a toga party I

eyes, “I

you run naked across

door to the McCannons and had been best friends with Liam for as long as

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

for over ten years,” Katie frowned at

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

brother’s panties in a twist. So, throw something on, and

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

because she was seventeen and pregnant. Friends that she had known for years completely dropped her. It

“Cole?” Liam was in her bedroom doorway. “What the hell happened

crisis,” Cole

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

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

Katie’s lips trembled. “I’m fat now. I will just get

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

could be. And this pregnancy thing threw in a wild card that he had no