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.”

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

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

sure he could see the floor.

a toga

rolled her eyes,

“I used to see you run naked

lived next door to the McCannons and had been best friends with Liam for as long as Katie

hit and run accident a year ago, Liam had been eighteen and was able to keep Katie, a minor, living with him in their parents’ home.

run naked in the yard for

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

is the pity,” Cole sighed. “Now, you have your brother’s panties

hormones! “Nothing fits, and I am not going to school in a blanket.”

enough that 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.

her bedroom doorway.

 Cole

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

you didn’t insist

“I’m fat now. I

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

want to 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 to deal with.