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.

hair. "Don't talk about it anymore, okay? No one will want to be friends

simple thing to coax him into following her words.

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 thought. They ask more and more difficult

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

agreed immediately and then took a bite from his

to the nurse and tell

swear that he would never leave without letting the nurse know, but he

door, he quickly turned to her and asked with obvious

went home," Rachel answered as she shook her

disappointed look masked his face. He thought for a moment and

but he suddenly remembered that Jack

referred to Jack and it made her

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

phone that she seldom

he quickly understood how to use the cellphone. There was no other applications installed on the phone so it was safe enough for

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

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, a nurse came in and was looking

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

critical condition of the

rushed to the operating room. She scrubbed her hands, sanitized them

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

through a phone call. When they have almost finished talking, he suddenly had an idea. "Someone is here that has

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

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

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

to Mendes and was even more surprised

room, the patient's condition deteriorated rapidly. Kevin's face became more desperate with

as he dizzily worked on stabilizing the patient.

calmed himself down a little and got

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

Lin heaved a 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 nervous. "We have a slight problem

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

in a soft voice, "Nurse, attend