Exposed: How Pope Francis Fell in Love With a Girl & Had a Brief Relationship

Pope Francis was a red-blooded teenager who enjoyed the company of pretty girls, took part in pranks on teachers, and was smitten with a beautiful 16-year-old brunette, MailOnline can reveal.
Former schoolmates of the 78-year-old Pontiff, who were in his 10 Muchachos (or Ten Lads) gang of friends, have spoken for the first time about the young Jorge Bergoglio's high school days.

And they revealed a studious yet normal young man who knew how to 'smart talk' the ladies, and who 'if a girl passed by who he thought was pretty... would say so'.

Bergoglio belonged to a gang of ten boys who would try to pick up girls at dances and discotheques, while their mischievous antics left their teachers exasperated - and once got the future pope a reprimand from the school's headmaster.

And amid constant speculation about whether any woman might have once stole the Holy Father's heart, his best friends revealed that there was ever only one contender - a girl called Tonecha who 'drove him crazy'.

The pair, who met at a dance in the Chacarita district of Buenos Aires, ended up going on several dates during which they 'must have kissed', according to his pals.

Oscar Crespo, who has remained friends with Bergoglio and recently met with him at the Vatican, said of Tonecha, who lived in the neighbouring Villa Ortuzar district: 'She was a really pleasant girl, with olive skin and brown hair, very pretty.

'She talked a lot, the complete opposite of Jorge. She was a year younger than him. He would see her at the dance and never stopped talking about her, saying how beautiful he found her.
'He eventually managed to chat up Tonecha and on their first date took her to the cinema.
'They went on a couple of other dates and then the thing fizzled out. It was a brief relationship, it ended and they said goodbye.

'I don't know who called it off. But Jorge already felt a calling to the priesthood and probably knew that it would never come to anything.

Culled from    MailOnline