Author's note: I have always been facinated with the Goldsworthy family, they seemed so diffrent from any kind of family Degrassi has ever had. I especially love Cece, and think she is one of the most realistic mother's on the show. Here's just my idea for how things went before, during and after Julia from Cece's POV with a little Bullfrog and Eli's POV as well.
Cece Goldsworthy always knew one day she would be a mother.
She knew that she had the compassion and patience for it.
She met and fell in love with Bullfrog in the humid summer of 1992 at a Metallica concert. Cece was there with a few of her friends, and Bullfrog was a young intern at the local radio station when he accidently bumped into her with a handful of beers. Honestly Cece was not that upset, it was refreshing in the warm summer heat, but Bullfrog insisted on apologizing to her throughout both of the encores, serenading her with Guns N' Roses lyrics.
That was all it took.
The two experienced a truly wonderful summer of love which ended with the conception of their son.
She remembers the day she found out, the joy and tears she felt.
She remembers Bullfrogs face covered in shock and confusion, while Bullfrog was not against the idea of having a child it was not a burning desire in him like it was for Cece.
It wasn't until the day that their son was born that Bullfrog finally became ok with the idea of being a parent. All it took was one look. He took one look into those deep intense green eyes and he knew what unselfish love was. This tiny creature was his son, a little bit of him, and hopefully a whole lot of Cece.
They had started trying for a second child around Eli's first birthday, but after months of trying and doctor visits with no answers Cece slowly began to accept that she would never have the little girl she always hoped for, or any other children for that matter.
Instead she threw everything she had into raising her son. Eli was the moon and the stars to her. He was always an intense child, clingy but independent, calm but explosive, intelligent and inquisitive. Eli was Cece's life.
While most children enjoy spending weekend at their friends houses, out riding bikes and eating junk food too close to the TV, Eli would rather spend the time with his mother, discussing music and movies and books. Eli was wise for someone his age, something Bullfrog insisted could have only come from his wife. Cece beamed with Joy from just being around her son, he loved her so deeply, so honestly. He was everything she had dreamed of.
Eli was small for his age and had a aura of quiet maturity, which made him a easy target for the bigger, dumber kids. Eli never fought back, and more days than Cece likes to recall Eli would return home from school with bruises and cuts, covering his delicate skin and face. Eli never complained to Cece and as much as she pushed he refused to reveal the identity of his tormentor.
It pained Cece to see her son suffering in silence, the mother in her wanted to protect her son, from everything and everyone, so she did not push Eli to be social, to engage in the normal activities that most children do. Cece wanted to keep Eli safe, and she felt the only way she could do that was to keep him at home, close to her heart, where he belonged.
Even as Eli ventured into adolescence and his interest and hobbies changed, little did their relationship. Like any teenage boy he spent hours talking about videogames, movies, and of course girls.
Cece knew one day Eli would find a girl and that she would have to share her son with someone, she wanted that for her son of course, but she thought it would be years from now, once he had been away from the home for a while and she had been able to adjust to his periodic absence before giving her son to someone else completely.
She remembers the day Eli first brought home Julia in the fall of freshmen year.
Over the past few weeks Julia's name became a part of everyday conversation for Eli. While Cece sat in the den reading a magazine Eli would nonchalantly mention Julia every few minutes as he tried to concentrate on his Algebra homework. Cece would listen attentively to her son, as he tried his best to hid the feelings he felt for the girl he sat behind in French class, even though her name seemed to roll off his tongue with too much ease to be just another member of the freshmen student body.
She admit that at first she thought nothing of it, just a first crush, a cute little girl with whom Eli could begin to explore what it is too have feelings for someone and have them reciprocated. Innocent and pure, just like her son.
By the time Cece officially met Julia when Eli brought her home she felt as if she had known the small girl for years. She remembers how shy the girl was, with her dark hair covering half of her face like a shield. She was dressed in black jeans that clung to her tiny legs, and an oversized flannel that floated softly away from her youthful frame. She stood almost identical in height to Eli, with lovely brown eyes that were full of warmth and mystery.
The girl was very beautiful, there was no denying it.
She remembers so much about the first time she met Julia, but mostly she remembers Eli. How he seemed to appear different to her, with this lovely girl standing next to him. She could see the glimmer in his eyes, and the way the tiny smirk he always had seemed to now remain in permanence across his face. It was a look that made her heart fill with so much love.
Cece knew that Eli would catch the love bug early in his life, it was just who he was, passionate and sensitive, both things that needed to be shared. Cece knew that he little boy was growing up and she no longer could be the only one he shared his life with.
Eli was always the kind of kid who did everything with his whole heart or not at all, so it shouldn't have surprised her that Eli loved that way as well.
If only she had known then that everything would change. That the emergance of this girl was about to rock the Goldsworthy family in a way Cece could have never imagined.