/ YO MY BRAIN JUST FUCKING EXPLODED. HOLD UP. MANY THOUGHTS!!!!!!

/ okay okay okay hear me out on this. so!!
nerdy prudes.
obviously charlotte isn't a nerdy prude, as she has the whole thing with ted going down. however!! she definitely was in high school. you know who else was in her year?
jane perkins. with the list, bullet point by bullet +

/ point of how her life would go.
she and charlotte were best friends.
since jane saw how "badly" emma was turning out, she wanted to nake sure charlotte wouldn't fall down the same wormhole. so they made her a list, too! and for her husband, who did she put down?
sam.
this was +

/ in freshman year, and charlotte was dating him steadily by the time sophomore year rolled around. jane, always annoyed that becky was on tom's arm and not her, wanted to make sure that charlotte stayed in her ideal relationship because she couldn't do it herself. so when it +

/ was junior year and charlotte suddenly had eyes for ted, jane was adamant in keeping them apart. this continued throughout adult life, with charlotte marrying sam and jane eventually getting with tom because becky was out of the picture.
charlotte worked at ccrp from day one +

/ because that was what she had put on her list. everything was going smoothly until davidson hired ted. she couldn't keep her eyes off him. years passed and she pined and pined, but wouldn't say anything because of jane and sam.

when jane died, charlotte started cheating.