Stuck in you

Mendes' eyes suddenly lit up. He put the iPad aside, leaned forward towards Rachel's ear and whispered, "Rachel, I want to tell you something. I saw Lucas kiss a girl."

The smile on Rachel's face suddenly faded away. She was stunned with what she heard and then turned to Mendes. "Did you see who it was that he kissed?"

"A beautiful girl."

Mendes rolled his fingers as he tried to describe the girl with his hands. "She has such big lovely eyes! She is fair-skinned, and they kissed each other on the corridor! And then she hugged him tightly!"

Rachel's face became a little blushed, and she quickly reached out and covered his lips. "Okay, I understand now. But, you can't tell anyone else about this, okay?"

"Why?" Mendes asked in an almost muffled voice since she had her hand on his lips.

Rachel didn't know how to explain it to a kid, but she felt annoyed by Lucas' thoughtlessness. 'How could he do it in front of a kid?' she thought.

"If someone else finds out, they will laugh at Lucas. It needs to be kept a secret. So, don't tell anyone else, understand?"

Mendes nodded. "It's our secret?"

"Yes, you're right."

"Okay!" He suddenly clenched his fist and looked excited all of a sudden. "Our secret! And no one else can be told."

The excitement in Mendes' face made Rachel feel a little awkward.

The boy was so excited as if he had found something extremely valuable.

'So, Lucas has a girlfriend?' Rachel wondered to herself.

Mendes suddenly leaned to her as she thought about it some more. "Will you kiss someone too?"

Rachel felt a rush of blood to her ears and cheeks when she heard Mendes' question. "You little brat," she snapped.

But Mendes merely winked at her innocently. His face looked as if he was offering to give her some of his candies.

The idea lingered long in Rachel's mind and it made her speechless for a long time. How could a boy ask such a question at his age?

The mix of innocence and seriousness in the boy's expression made Rachel feel embarrassed. She suddenly raised her hand to cover her face when an image suddenly crossed her mind. An image that she knew she should not imagine.

She couldn't understand why the image of Jack suddenly filled her mind. She cleared her throat to help ease her embarrassment. She felt lucky that a child could not yet identify the expression of embarrassment that was obvious on her face.

ruffled Mendes' hair. "Don't talk about it anymore, okay? No one will want to be friends with you if you

was a simple thing to coax him into following her words. When he saw the serious expression on Rachel's face, he quickly realized that it must be something that kids were not allowed to talk

in Rachel's heart when she heard his agreement. It could really be tricky to deal with kids nowadays, she

topic. "You can sit here and watch cartoons while I go and work. Then we can go home together when

Mendes agreed immediately and then took a bite from

tell her whenever you go out,

was about to raise his hand to swear that he would never leave without letting the nurse know, but he suddenly remembered the

out the door, he quickly turned to her and asked with

went home," Rachel answered as she shook her head

moment and asked,

he suddenly remembered that Jack asked

how he referred to Jack and it made her smile as she tried not to laugh. "He

then thought for a while and his expression changed as if he just

an old phone that she seldom used anymore. She

phone so it was safe enough for a child to use. So, she decided to give the phone to him as

happy and was about to call Jonathan. Rachel smiled before she

heart disease was brought to

help a wounded patient when the nurse rushed to her. The nurse called her attention

not control the critical condition of the patient and they could lose the

She scrubbed her

very happy as they spoke like there was no age gap between them. Their phone conversation lasted for nearly

When they have almost finished

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

lifted his hand to his ear. There was

and whispered, "Please talk to him. I need to answer another phone

to Mendes and was

deteriorated rapidly. Kevin's face became more desperate with each passing

slightly trembled as he dizzily worked on stabilizing the patient. A nurse greeted him

a little and got back

confident female voice answered back at

Lin heaved a sigh of relief. He started to visibly relax as Rachel walked to his side. But he did not stop focusing on what he was doing. His voice sounded

sink. They almost took a deep breath at the same time. But they knew that it was a critical time and the patient would be better off if they wouldn't let the grim situation weaken

operation record from a nurse. She frowned and said in a soft