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.

hell, Cole? I’m not dressed!”

that had hit his 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

toga party I wasn’t aware

her eyes, “I

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

McCannons and had been best friends with Liam for as long

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

yard for over ten years,” Katie frowned at

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

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

her eyes, those damn hormones! “Nothing fits, and

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

doorway.

crisis,” Cole quipped.

Katie wanted to throw something at him, preferably a spiked heel. “Nothing

you didn’t insist on wearing those

fat now. I will just get uglier and

head. “Can

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