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.

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

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 must be something that

relief in Rachel's heart when she heard his agreement. It could really be tricky to deal with kids nowadays, she thought. They ask

sit here and watch cartoons while I go and

Mendes agreed immediately and then

to the nurse and tell

without letting the nurse know, but

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

as she shook her head

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

call Jack uncle, but he suddenly remembered that Jack asked him to call him his name instead, so he quickly corrected

quickly changed how he referred to Jack and it made her smile as she

looked 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

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

understood how to use the cellphone. There was no other applications installed on the phone so it was

and was about to call Jonathan. Rachel smiled

work. A few minutes later, a patient with heart disease was brought

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

the critical condition of the patient and they could lose

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

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

have almost finished talking, he suddenly had an idea. "Someone is here that has something to tell you.

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

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

back and whispered, "Please talk to

had been talking to Mendes and

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

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

back. He calmed himself down a little and got back to

female voice answered back

stop focusing on what he was

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 wouldn't let the grim situation weaken

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