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.

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

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 kids were not allowed to

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

her throat once more to change the topic. "You can sit here and watch cartoons while I go and

then took a bite from

and tell

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

her and asked with obvious excitement, "Well, is Grandpa

Rachel answered as she shook her

disappointed look masked his face. He thought for a moment and asked, "Well, what about that uncle...

he suddenly remembered that Jack asked him to call him

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

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

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

on the phone so it was safe enough

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

not long and she quickly became busy with 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 operating room. There is a

could not control the critical condition of the

another doctor to take over for her on the wounded patient as she 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

He seemed very happy as they spoke like there was no age

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."

his hand and lifted his hand to his

"Please talk to him. I need to

been talking to Mendes and was even more

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

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

himself down a little and got back to the same

a confident female voice answered

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

knew that it was a critical time and the

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