got your heart in a headlock

after that, everything fell into place right where it was meant to be. celia gave birth on august 28th 2014 to a baby girl named ivy katherine, the middle name being after her mother. although she thought she couldn't possibly fall more in love with matt than she already had been, seeing him with their daughter proved her wrong. when he asked her to marry him, the pieces fell together and she understood why nothing else in the past had worked out for the better.

born on june 19th 1989 to emily and alexander king, celia became the second child for the couple a few years after the birth of her older brother. she grew up close with her family, and as time went on logan became her best friend. he was the one she started to depend on more than anyone else, the one she would run and cry to if she fell down or if someone at school was bullying her. he was her rock and the only one she felt she could trust apart from her parents. but they didn't understand the way he did, how he always seemed to know exactly what she was thinking or feeling at any given time. though she imagined he was none too thrilled with having his kid sister following him around everywhere he went. even at a young age she idolized him, wanting to go with him when he went to ride bicycles with his friends or down to the 7-11 for candy. logan was the one she wanted to be exactly like once she got to be his age and no amount of arguments here and there were enough to stop that from happening.

a few years later led to celia becoming spoiled, always wanting to be the center of attention in their still rather small family. the abandonment issues started to arise back then as she was neither the oldest and therefore didn't get to do everything first, and being the baby of the family didn't have as many perks as one might have been led to believe. celia would throw tantrums that often resulted in her being sent to her room to stew for a couple of hours before she was finally let out. she grew out of the selfish nature she'd suddenly adopted for the most part, and in many ways it caused her to become more independent.

everything she knew of the world came crashing down around her in 2004 when her mother passed away from breast cancer. celia shut down and kept to herself, not wanting her family to worry more about her well being when they should have been concentrating on themselves instead. she bottled up the emotions of loss and anger and shoved them aside, making room for rationality and maintaining her composure. she was only fifteen at the time and the loss of her mother hit her harder than she wanted to own up to but she continued to remain silent. not feeling anything and being impervious to the pain was better than letting it creep in.

it was soon after that they moved to california in 2005, her father wanting to keep his children close to their family during that time. logan had started to pull away from her and the one person she thought she could go to no matter what was slowly slipping out of the picture. she forced herself through it and learned to grieve on her own. the stronger she became, the better, though she still longed to be close with him like they once were. he was the one person she loved more than life and trying to at least fix their relationship started to become more important as the years went on and she grew older.

celia graduated from csulb in 2011 with a major in elementary education, though she is continuing her own education to get a better degree and hopefully find a job as a teacher somewhere. in the meantime she works at a wedding/event planning business that she is able to make a decent enough living with to not hurt for money whenever she may need it.

after a series of tumultuous relationships, celia fell into a whirlwind romance that wound up with her walking out. it had gone from a whirlwind to tumultuous, and unhealthy for everyone involved with it. getting out was the only answer. with the encouragement of matt, she left it behind her and soon found herself falling for him all over again. the schoolgirl crush she'd had on him back when they were years younger hadn't yet faded, and by christmas that year she found herself unexpectedly pregnant.

matt had been her brother's best friend from back when they lived in kentucky. like most younger sisters with an older brother, she developed a crush on him which she, for the longest time, assumed was unrequited. by the time they were adults and dealing with their own lives, it turned out to not be the case. he was one of the primary reasons she was able to get out of the abusive relationship she'd been in prior.