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.

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

it was a simple thing to coax him into following her

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

cartoons while I go and work.

agreed immediately and then took a bite from his

tell her whenever you go

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

he quickly turned to her and

as she

his face. He thought for a moment and asked, "Well, what about that uncle... Ah, no,

Jack asked him

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

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

an old phone that she seldom used anymore. She then

phone

about to call Jonathan. Rachel smiled before she went

with work. A few minutes later, a patient with heart disease was brought to the emergency room. A short while later, a

the nurse rushed to her. The nurse called her attention

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

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

spoke like there was no

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. "Someone is

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

hand and lifted his hand to his ear. There was a puzzled look on his

whispered, "Please talk to him. I need to answer another phone

found out that his father had been talking to Mendes and

in the operating room, the patient's condition deteriorated rapidly. Kevin's face became more desperate with each passing second. Sweat

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

a little and

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

stop focusing on what he was

took a deep breath at the same time. But they knew that it was a critical time and

frowned and said in a soft voice, "Nurse, attend to the