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 grabbed a blanket

hell, Cole? I’m not

younger sister’s room. He wasn’t even sure he could see the floor. Raising his eyebrows, he glanced over

“Were we invited to a toga party I wasn’t aware of?”

rolled her eyes, “I wasn’t

used to see you run naked across the yard on a daily basis.”

had been best friends

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

run naked in the yard for over ten years,” Katie frowned

lust shooting through her. Stupid second trimester,

pity,” Cole sighed. “Now, you have your brother’s panties

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

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 grief

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

crisis,” Cole

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

discarded pile. “If you didn’t

now. I will just get

head.

to skip. But he knew what an emotional mess Katie could be. And this pregnancy thing threw in a wild card that