Undiscovered - a Jortini story

8. Fixing

Tini POV
I reached over to my bed-side table and turned on the blinding light of the lamp. Instantly, the room was brilliant with light, and the cone of the shade threw its brightness downwards, leaving the corners of the dorm in dusk. I carefully sat up on my violet-coloured bed, trying not to wake Lodo up.

"Tini?" I heard Lodo groan as she sat up on her bed.

"I'm sorry Lodo, did I wake you?" I asked with embarrassment.

"Nah, don't worry. I was awake anyway. What's up?"

"Well, it's just, you know how I was telling you about Jorge?"

"Yeah, why?" She asked.

"Well, I realise that I did like him, like really really liked him." I started.

"OMG OMG OMG OMG!" She squealed. "I knew it, I KNEW IT!" She said while jumping on her bed.

"Wait, I haven't finished." I said sadly.

"Oh." Was all she could say.

"Well, this evening I went to Jorge and Rugge's room to get my notes because we have that test tomorrow. A-and when I walked in, I-I saw Jorge and S-Stephie 'having some fun'." I stuttered.
"A-and then, Jorge came and apologised but the pain just never left me. He played with my emotions and left me. I know that it was wrong of me to lash out like that to him, considering I didn't properly convey my feelings towards him, but do you know what I mean?" I said on the verge of tears.

"Tini, aw hunny!" She came up to my bed and gave me a hug. "Jorge is like that unfortunately. He doesn't care about anyone's feelings."

"But i'm just not anyone to him! Am I?Well, he's certainly not just 'anyone' to me."

"Tini, i'm sorry." She said apologetically.

"No, it's not your fault. It's just, i've fallen for the same thing twice now. I don't fall in love everyday. It's really rare. And I fell in love with Jorge. And he must have guessed. But let me fall." I cried.

"Don't worry Tini. If it helps, Jorge doesn't fall in love. It just doesn't exist for him. Ever since he lost is parents, his kindness and lovingness faded away too."

"Really, he doesn't believe in love?" I questioned. "But how? I mean he's 18! He must have fallen in love before."

"Even if he did Tini, he ignored it and thought of it as a distraction. I've tried to show him many times that love is real, but he's just stopped believing in it. That's why he is the egotistical jerk he is." Lodo explained.

"Oh. Well, I want to show him that love is real."

"I've tried Tini, nothing has worked and it's been ages now."

"Yeah but Lodo, he sees you as a sister, that's a different sort of love. I'm going to show him that love is real." I stated.

"You know Tini, i genuinely think that you could be the one to show him that love is real."

"Thanks Lodo, it's quite obvious that I love him." I chuckled. "Now all I have to do, is find out why he blocks love out."

"True, it is because of his parents I think. Well, that's what he's told me and Rugge." She started. "But wait, you said that you lashed out at him. What did you do?" She asked, chuckling.

"Well, actually never mind. That doesn't have to be spoken of..." I said embarrassingly.

"Hahhaa, ok, but i will find out." She assured.

-----NEXT MORNING-----

Jorge POV
Wow. I never thought that Tini like loved me. Wow. I was feeling two emotions right now. Happiness, and a whole load of guilt man. She literally saw me making out with Stephie. Yikes. That must have been bad for her. Oopsies? And after all that effort last night, Stephie didn't even help me forget about Tini.
That's because you LOVEEE her!
Oh my god! This stupid conscience should go fuck itself.
You know i'm you right?
Shut the hell up you jerk.
Woah, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed...

OK OK! That's enough now. But even though I want to beat the crap out of this conscience, it's right. I do love Tini. I love her. I'll tell the whole world if I have to. I love her. This is the first time I have ever got so hung up on a girl. Well, Tini's not just any girl. She's special. She's unique. She's not like any of those Barbies always sending me love letters. She's the one for me. I'm sure of it. Otherwise I wouldn'f be thinking of her every second of every day.

"Hey dude." Ruggero greeted as he entered the dorm.

"Hey man..." I said all depressed.

"What--" he started but I cut him off.

"I have a problem." I confessed. "You know how you were saying that stuff about me and Tini."

"Yeah!!" He nodded in excitement.

"Well i've been thinking. And i've come to a conclusion that *I love her.*" I muffled the last bit.

"What?" Ruggero asked, confused by my last few words.

"*I love her.*" I muffled once again, so he couldn't hear me.

"What? Dude just tell me!" He said loosing his cool.

"Ok, I LOVE TINI!" I shouted.

"You what Tini??" Someone asked.

Oh shit...

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