Charlotte: 2010

Charlotte is a pretty naïve teenager who, for the most part, is engaged in school, home, and church. She is the only child of two extremely respected members of their community. Her mom is a doctor and her father is the CEO of a Managed Care Organization. They live in a modest area of a small city where they raise her on Christian values and family unity. Her parents have high hopes for her future and she is well aware of their expectation. Her life is pretty quiet until a new family moves into the neighborhood. The parents are recently divorced and the daughter and son live with the mother, who is also a doctor.
Shakyla is a slim pretty black girl who is some what of a survivor and has no problem adjusting to their new environment. Charlotte, who has never had a black friend before, begins to hang out with the new girl. At the same time she has been secretly reading books and renting movies about teens that are liberated and doing their own thing. As the two girls discuss their fantasies and the things Charlotte has read about they start hanging out the Mall in the downtown area.
Malik, Shakyla’s bother, runs into them at the Mall and begins to scold them about being there, but not before his delinquent friends take notice of the two girls’ beauty. Rod whispers in Charlotte’s hear and Duke begins to sweet talk Shakyla. Neither girl is ready for what the advances of the four year older guys they are becoming infatuated with. Against Malik’s counseling, they start dating the two jock type drop outs. After the second date Charlotte confesses to Shakyla that Rod is constantly touching her in places she does not feel comfortable. Shakyla is experiencing the same thing with Duke, but she says she “is not having it.” She remembers what happened to her cousin who fell for a guy who she thought loved her. In the aftermath she has two kids and he is nowhere to be found. She is determined not to be victim of an unwanted teen pregnancy. She admits that Duke is good looking and a smooth talker, but she realizes that she is not the only girl he has told the same word to.
Charlotte, on the other hand, has not been exposed to guys like Rod, so she is very entices with the attention she gets. On the fourth date Rod lets her know that he has never dated a girl that he had not slept with by the second date. He further states that if she loves him she would not withhold her body from him. The pressure becomes too great and she gives in.
The fear of what she has done leads her to tell Shakyla who suggests she get a check up. Rod is extremely sexually active and it turns out he has given her an STD. Charlotte is furious and breaks off with him.