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.

about it anymore, okay? No one will want to be friends with you if

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

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

watch cartoons while I go and work. Then we can go home together when I get

then took a bite

tell her whenever you go

never leave without letting the nurse know, but he

and asked with obvious excitement,

home," Rachel answered as she shook

A disappointed look masked his face. He thought for a moment and asked, "Well, what about that uncle...

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

noticed that he quickly changed how he referred to Jack and it made her smile

disappointed. He then thought for a while and his expression changed as if he just thought of an excellent idea. "Can I talk to Grandpa Jonathan on

for an old phone that she seldom used anymore. She then showed

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

very happy and was about to call Jonathan. Rachel smiled

became busy with work. A few minutes later, a patient with heart disease was brought to

to help a wounded patient when the nurse rushed to her. The nurse called her attention immediately. "Rachel, Kevin needs your help in the operating room. There is a patient in critical

control the critical condition of the patient and they could lose the patient

take over for her on the wounded patient as she rushed to the operating room. She scrubbed her hands, sanitized them and put on the operating robe, gloves

as they spoke like there was no age gap between them. Their phone

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

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

when his father placed his phone in his hand and lifted his hand to his ear. There was a puzzled look on his face as he turned to his

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

stunned when he found out that his father had been talking to Mendes and was even

rapidly. Kevin's face became more desperate

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

he greeted back. He calmed himself down a little and got back to the

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

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

everyone's heart sink. They almost took a deep breath at the same time. But they knew that it was

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