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.

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

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

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

her throat once more to change the topic. "You can sit here and watch cartoons while I go and work. Then we can go home together when I get off work,

immediately and then took

nurse and tell her whenever you go

nurse know, but

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

Rachel answered as she

not there anymore?" A disappointed look masked his face. He thought for a moment

he suddenly remembered that Jack

and it made her smile as she tried not

as if

and searched in her office for an old phone that she seldom

how to use the cellphone. There was no other applications installed on the phone so it was safe enough for a child to use. So, she decided to give the phone to him

and was about to call Jonathan. Rachel

patient with heart disease was brought to the emergency room. A short while later, a nurse came in

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

the patient and they could lose the patient without

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 into the

they spoke like there was no age

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

"Who is that?"

"Jack."

phone in his hand and lifted his hand to his ear. There was a puzzled look on his face as he turned to his

father patted him on the back and whispered, "Please

talking to Mendes and was even

became more desperate

patient. A nurse greeted him as she

be quiet," he greeted back. He calmed himself down a little

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

focusing on what he was doing. His voice sounded a little nervous. "We have a slight problem and the patient is not looking good

heart sink. They almost took 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

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