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

the hell, Cole?

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

we invited to a toga party I wasn’t

her eyes, “I wasn’t dressed.”

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

been best friends with Liam for as long as Katie could

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

for over ten years,” Katie

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

“Now, you have your brother’s panties in a twist.

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

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

crisis,” Cole

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

discarded pile. “If you didn’t insist on wearing those

I

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

what an emotional mess Katie could be. And this pregnancy thing