Blog #4: 2010: Charlotte Temple's REAL Story

Charlotte Temple is a beautiful girl attending an entirely female boarding school for her entire life thus far. She is kind to her friends and a wonderful daughter to two loving parents, to whom she is an only child. She has attended this boarding school her entire life because her parents know she is so stunning and incredibly intelligent and so they want her to be able to go to college without having added teenage complications like boys. They trust her Headmistress, as she went to college with Mrs. Temple, and believe that she is protecting Charlotte from the world (except study and prayer). Charlotte unsurprisingly receives good grades and spends most of her time studying quietly and alone.
The Headmistress, LaRue, pities Charlotte because she thinks that she deserves some romance and a chance to experience adolescence. However, La Rue turns out to be not balanced and a dreadfully bad influence. Charlotte gets seduced by the power of making her own decisions; she begins to resent her parent’s decision to hold her back so she rebels by drinking and making out with boys from the boarding house up the street. One night, while out with some fellow rebels, she drinks too much but La Rue hasn’t noticed because she has been arranging a round of seven minutes in heaven for Charlotte and the older boy she has a crush on, Montraville. He is pleased that they both do well in school and are able to party a lot while doing it. He sneaks her into his room at his school. They have both had too much to drink and their persistent teenage sexual urges take over.
Charlotte gets into a lot of trouble with La Rue for staying out all night and begins to understand that La Rue is not incredibly stable and doubts some of the choices she has been making lately. She starts to focus more on school until she realizes that she is pregnant!! She cannot turn to her parents; they would be so disappointed and probably pull her out of school! She goes to Montraville’s school to talk to him about what they should do. She and Montraville approach La Rue for help and she tells them that they should get married, which she only recommends because she knows that Charlotte’s parents will be furious with her and thinks they won’t be SO mad if Charlotte simply runs away. They decide to take her advice because they don’t know what else to do. La Rue helps them to get married, in a courtroom, and find an apartment which is in a terrible part of town because they can’t ask for their parents for money.
One night it is raining horribly and Montraville wakes up from the storm. He looks over at his formerly beautiful, currently disgustingly fat and pregnant wife and completely freaks out. He calls his best friend, Belcour, and tells him the situation. He comes over and gives Montraville his car to get out of town and offers to handle Charlotte for him. When Charlotte wakes up, Belcour tells her that Montraville left her for his ex-girlfriend and that she must leave the apartment (mostly because Belcour knows it is paid for the next two months and he needs a place to live and doesn’t want to live with a pregnant girl: bad for the reputation, you know). Charlotte tries to get help from La Rue but she sees Charlotte coming and locks the front doors pretending that she has left school for winter break. Charlotte is trapped outside in the blizzard with nowhere to go. She turns up at Planned Parenthood where they help her deliver her baby. She tells them she wants to give the baby up for adoption and leaves. She goes back to her parents and apologizes. They put her in rehab and she is just glad that they do not hate her. She never tells them about the baby.