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.”

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

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

of the tornado that had 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

toga party I wasn’t aware of?”

her eyes,

you run naked across the yard on a daily

best friends with Liam for as long as Katie

hit and run accident a year ago, Liam had been eighteen and was able to keep Katie, a minor, living with

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

arms over his head, showing a slice 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

your brother’s panties in a twist. So, throw something on, and let’s go.”

Katie felt a pinching behind her eyes, those damn hormones! “Nothing fits, and I am not going

bad enough that people thought she was a slut because she was seventeen and pregnant. Friends that she had known for years completely dropped her.

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

“Fashion crisis,” Cole quipped.

something at him, preferably a spiked

through the discarded pile. “If you didn’t

I

Cole went over to Katie and awkwardly patted her head. “Can we skip

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