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.

anymore, okay? No one will want to be friends with you if you keep asking

thing to coax him into following her words. When he saw the serious expression on Rachel's face, he quickly realized that it must

his agreement. It could really be tricky

throat once more to change the topic. "You can sit here and watch cartoons while I go and work. Then we can go home together when I get off work,

and then

to the nurse and tell her

the nurse know, but he suddenly remembered the visit he once

turned to her and asked with

Rachel answered as she shook her head

not there anymore?" A disappointed look masked his face. He thought for a moment and

to call Jack uncle, but he suddenly remembered that Jack asked

to Jack and it made

as if he just thought of an excellent idea. "Can I

phone that she seldom used

cellphone. There was no other applications installed on the phone so it was safe enough for a child to

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

disease was brought to the emergency room. A short while later, a nurse

her. The nurse called her attention immediately. "Rachel, Kevin needs your help in the

the patient and they could

her hands, sanitized them and put on the operating robe, gloves and mask. She then hurriedly followed the nurse into the operating

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

almost finished talking, he suddenly had an idea. "Someone is here that has something to tell you. Do you want to talk to

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

father placed his phone in his hand and lifted his hand to his ear. There was a puzzled look on his

patted him on the back and whispered, "Please talk to him.

when he found out that his father had been talking to Mendes and was even more surprised now that he had to continue

rapidly. Kevin's face became more desperate with each passing second. Sweat started to build up

stabilizing the patient. A

He calmed himself down a little and got back to the same

voice answered back at him. "Here! How's

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 a little

sink. They almost took a deep breath at the same time. But they knew that it was a critical time and the patient

the operation record from a nurse. She frowned and said in a soft voice, "Nurse, attend to the patient's bleeding. Kevin,