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.

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

he understood what she said. He was still young enough that it 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

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

sit here and watch cartoons while I go and work. Then

and then

tell her whenever you go out,

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

quickly turned to her and asked with obvious excitement, "Well, is Grandpa Jonathan still at your

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

look masked his face. He thought for a moment and asked,

uncle, but he suddenly remembered that Jack asked him to call him his name

Jack and it made her smile as she tried not to

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

and searched in her office for an old phone that

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

was very happy and was about to call Jonathan. Rachel

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

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

Lin could not control the critical condition of the patient and they could lose the patient without

doctor to 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 and mask. She then hurriedly followed the nurse into the operating

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

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

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

and lifted his hand to his ear. There was a puzzled look on his face as he turned

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

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

face became more desperate with each passing second.

worked on stabilizing the patient. A nurse

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

he finished speaking, a confident female voice

relax as Rachel walked to his side. But he did not stop focusing on what

time. But they knew that it was a critical

operation record from a nurse. She frowned and said in a soft voice, "Nurse, attend