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

into following her words. When he

agreement. It could really be tricky to deal with kids nowadays, she thought.

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

Mendes agreed immediately and then took a bite

tell

without letting the nurse know, but he suddenly remembered the visit he once had to

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

answered as she shook her

not there anymore?" A disappointed look masked his face. He thought for a moment and asked, "Well, what about that uncle...

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

to Jack and it made her smile as she tried not to laugh. "He is not in my place

while and his expression changed as if he

for an old phone that she seldom used anymore.

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

about to call Jonathan. Rachel smiled before she went

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

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

condition of the patient and they could lose the

her hands, sanitized them and put

like there was no age gap

they have almost finished

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

placed his phone in his hand and lifted his hand to his ear. There

whispered, "Please talk to him. I

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

the patient's condition deteriorated rapidly. Kevin's face became more

he dizzily worked on stabilizing the patient. A

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

as he finished speaking, a confident female voice answered back at him. "Here! How's

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 and the patient is not

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 their

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