Modern Charlotte Temple

Charlotte is a high school junior at Beachwood. She is also the head of the abstinence club. Her elicit boyfriend Monty, captain of the football team, is about to graduate and go off to OSU:

Monty tells Charlotte, “I promise we will always be together, lets just seal they deal.”

“I don’t know” says Charlotte thinking about how her parents would feel if she broke her vow of abstinence, or even found out about Monty in the first place. “I really don’t think its such a great idea.”

Monty takes a deep breath and then tells Charlotte that if they sleep together now she will be proving that she wants to be with him forever, and that it will give him something to think about always while he is away at school. Eventually Charlotte gives in and they sneak off under the bleachers. Right after they are finished they hear a noise very close by. They freeze when they see Charlotte’s school guidance counselor, Ms. Larue, who also happened to be the faculty advisor to the abstinence club. Ms. Larue stops in her tracks when she see the pair. She turns and starts to walk away and the couple hear her muttering something like “ahh young love...” Charlotte is extremely confused by this, but happy that she doesn’t seem to be in trouble.

By the end of the summer Charlotte had told Monty that their affair under the bleachers has resulted in her becoming pregnant. She begs for him to stay in town so that they can be together when she has the baby. Monty refuses to stay, but tells Charlotte that he will be home when the baby is born, he just needs to spend at least this first semester down at OSU because he already paid his deposit. Charlotte is heartbroken, but consoled that at least her parents won’t find out. They had both committed to join Doctors without boundaries for a year and would be overseas.

February rolls around and the baby is coming soon. Charlotte has not heard from Monty in over a month, despite frantic texts, emails, and facebook messages. She decides to go down to Columbus to confront him. She is almost to OSU when her car breaks down and she becomes stranded. She starts to walk, and it starts to snow. She makes her way 10 miles down the road before collapsing. A passerby picks her up and takes her to his house just off campus. He finds her father’s cell number and lets him know what’s going on. Her father jumps on the next plane out of Haiti.

Charlotte delivers her baby, and is not doing well afterwards. She is begging for the kind gentleman to get Monty from school but he’s still not answering his calls. Charlotte’s father arrives the next day and sees his daughter and granddaughter right before Charlotte flatlines.

Monty only learns of what has happened when the girl he’s been sleeping with answers his door and Monty is handed a summons to appear in court.