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.”

Katie realized that she was standing there in her underwear. Screeching she grabbed a blanket from the

the hell, Cole?

could see the floor. Raising

toga party I wasn’t

Katie rolled her eyes, “I

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

next door to the McCannons and had been best

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

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

abs. Katie couldn’t help a wave of lust shooting through her. Stupid second trimester, it was causing

your brother’s panties in a twist.

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 their own way.

doorway. “What the hell happened in here?”

crisis,” Cole

Katie wanted to throw something at him, preferably a spiked heel. “Nothing fits, I’m

didn’t insist on

“I’m fat now. I will just get uglier

“Aww hell,” Cole went over to Katie and awkwardly patted her head. “Can we

did not want to skip. But he knew what an emotional mess Katie could be. And this pregnancy thing threw in a