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.”

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

Cole? I’m not dressed!”

room. He wasn’t even sure he could see the floor. Raising his eyebrows, he glanced over to where Katie was standing with

we invited to a toga party

eyes, “I wasn’t dressed.”

laughed. “I used to see you run naked across the yard on a

McCannons and had been best friends with

When Liam and Katie’s parents were struck in a hit and run accident a year ago, Liam had been eighteen and

in the yard for over

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 out of her

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

“Nothing fits, and I

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

Liam was in her bedroom doorway. “What the

crisis,” Cole

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

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

fat now. I will just get uglier and uglier.”

over to Katie and awkwardly patted her head. “Can we skip today and get the girl

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