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.

No one

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

could really be tricky to deal with kids nowadays, she thought. They

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

Mendes agreed immediately and then took a bite from

and tell her whenever

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

quickly turned to her and asked with

he went home," Rachel answered as she shook her head at

thought for a moment and asked, "Well, what about that uncle... Ah,

but he suddenly remembered that Jack asked him to call him his name instead, so he quickly corrected

that he quickly changed how he referred to Jack and it made her smile as she tried not to laugh. "He is not in my place

his expression changed as if he just thought of an excellent idea. "Can I talk to Grandpa Jonathan on

her office for an old phone that she seldom used anymore.

that he quickly understood how to use the cellphone. There was no other applications installed on the phone so it was safe enough for a child to use. So, she decided to give the phone

happy and was about to call Jonathan.

long and she quickly became busy with work. A few minutes later, a patient with heart disease was brought to the emergency room. A short while later,

about to help a wounded patient when the nurse rushed to her. The nurse called her attention immediately. "Rachel, Kevin needs your help in

could not control the critical condition of the

to the operating room. She scrubbed her hands, sanitized

He seemed very happy as they spoke like there was

that he could even make a child happy across a considerable distance through a phone call. When they have almost finished talking, he suddenly had an idea.

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

his hand to his ear. There was a puzzled look

the back and whispered, "Please talk

out that his father had been talking to Mendes and

rapidly. Kevin's face became more desperate

hand slightly trembled as he dizzily worked on stabilizing the patient. A nurse greeted him as she entered the operating room.

quiet," he greeted back. He calmed himself down a little and got back to the same nurse. "Where is

as he finished speaking, a confident female voice answered back at him.

he did not stop focusing on what he was doing. His voice sounded a little nervous. "We have a slight

knew that it was a critical time and the patient would be better

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