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.”

in her underwear. Screeching she grabbed a blanket from the bed to cover herself.

“What the hell, Cole? I’m not dressed!”

he could see the floor. Raising his eyebrows, he glanced over to where Katie was standing with a blanket

“Were we invited to a toga party I wasn’t aware of?”

eyes,

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

the McCannons and had been best

a year ago, Liam had been eighteen and was able to keep Katie,

run naked in the yard for over ten years,” Katie frowned at

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

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

Katie felt a pinching behind her eyes, those damn hormones! “Nothing fits, and I

years completely dropped her. It wasn’t a secret that Katie got a little wild after her

was in her bedroom doorway. “What the hell happened

“Fashion crisis,” Cole quipped.

wanted to throw something at him, preferably a spiked heel. “Nothing fits, I’m not going to school

Liam leafed through the discarded pile. “If you didn’t insist on wearing those damn skinny

fat now. I will

and awkwardly patted her head. “Can we skip today and get the girl some

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