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

the hell, Cole? I’m

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.

to a toga

Katie rolled her eyes, “I wasn’t

naked across

to the McCannons and had been best friends with Liam

had been eighteen and was able to keep Katie, a minor, living with him in

for over ten

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

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

eyes, those damn hormones! “Nothing fits, and I am not going to

pregnant. Friends that she had known for years completely dropped her. It wasn’t a secret that Katie got a

was in her bedroom doorway. “What the hell happened in

crisis,” Cole

spiked heel. “Nothing fits,

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

trembled. “I’m fat now. I

patted her head. “Can we 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 how