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 grabbed a blanket from the bed to cover herself.

hell, Cole? I’m not dressed!”

hit his friend Liam younger sister’s room. He wasn’t even sure he could see the floor. Raising his eyebrows, he glanced over to where Katie was standing with a blanket wrapped around her.

a toga party

her eyes,

naked across the yard on

been best friends with

in a hit and run accident a year ago, Liam had been eighteen and was able to

in the yard for over ten years,” Katie frowned at Cole.

of his washboard abs. Katie couldn’t help 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

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

eyes, those damn hormones! “Nothing fits,

enough 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

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

crisis,” Cole quipped.

him, preferably a spiked heel. “Nothing fits, I’m not going to

Liam leafed through the discarded pile. “If you didn’t

“I’m fat now. I will just get uglier

head. “Can we skip today

could be. And this pregnancy thing threw in a