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.

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

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 must be something that

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

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

immediately and then took

the nurse and tell her whenever you go out,

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

to her and asked with obvious

went home," Rachel answered as she shook her head

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

Jack uncle, but he suddenly remembered that Jack asked

it made her smile as she tried not to laugh. "He

expression changed as if

a while and searched in her office for an old phone that she seldom used anymore. She then showed

phone so it was safe enough for a child to use. So, she decided to

happy and was about to call Jonathan. Rachel

a patient with heart disease was brought to the emergency room. A short while

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

not control the critical condition of the patient and they

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

chatted with Jonathan on the phone. He seemed very happy as they spoke like there was no age gap between them. Their phone

call. When they have almost finished talking, he suddenly had an idea. "Someone is here that has something to tell you. Do you want to talk to

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

hand and lifted his hand to

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

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

became more desperate with each passing

patient. A nurse

back. He calmed himself down a little and got back to the same nurse. "Where is

speaking, a confident female voice answered back at him. "Here!

side. But he did not stop focusing on what he was doing. His voice sounded a little nervous. "We have a slight problem

at the same time. But they knew that it was a critical time

frowned and said in a soft voice, "Nurse, attend to the patient's bleeding. Kevin, please