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 will want to be friends with you if you keep asking that kind of

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

his agreement. It could really be tricky

and watch cartoons while I

and then took a

and 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 visit

Rachel was out the door, he quickly turned to her and asked with obvious excitement, "Well, is Grandpa

he went home," Rachel answered as

thought for a moment and asked, "Well, what about that uncle... Ah, no, is Jack

remembered that Jack asked him to call him

it made her smile as

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

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

other applications installed on the phone so

was about to call

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

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

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

scrubbed her hands, sanitized them and

Mendes chatted with Jonathan on the phone. He seemed very happy as they spoke like there was no

even make a child happy across a considerable distance through a phone call. When they have almost

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

phone in his hand and lifted his hand to his

back and whispered, "Please

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

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

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

greeted back. He calmed himself down a little

confident female voice answered

he did not stop focusing on what he was doing. His voice sounded a

words made everyone's heart 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

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