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.”

there in her underwear. Screeching she grabbed a blanket from the bed to cover herself.

“What the hell, Cole?

caught sight of the tornado that had hit his friend Liam younger sister’s room. He wasn’t even sure he could

“Were we invited to a toga party

eyes, “I

used to see you run naked across the yard

door to the McCannons and had been best friends with

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

yard for over

through her. Stupid second trimester, it was causing havoc with her

“More is the pity,” Cole sighed. “Now, you have your brother’s panties in

fits, and I am not going

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

bedroom doorway. “What the hell happened

“Fashion crisis,” Cole quipped.

preferably a spiked heel. “Nothing

Liam leafed through the discarded pile. “If you didn’t insist on wearing those damn skinny jeans.”

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

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

Katie could be. And this pregnancy thing threw in a wild card that he had no idea how to deal