Chapter 10: The Internship

Nina

“Well? What’s your assignment?” Jessica asked.

“Um… sports medicine,” I replied, handing the phone back.

Jessica looked confused. “I thought you wanted-”

“Surgery, yeah,” I said, grabbing my bag and heading for the door with Jessica on my heels. First thing in the morning, I would go to the dean of the medical school and ask for a reassignment.

“And why do you want to be reassigned?” the dean asked as I stood in front of her desk the next day. She was a curly-haired woman with glasses and a hard face.

I swallowed and tried to calm my

nerves. “It’s just… not the direction I was hoping to take,” I replied. “I don’t

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like sports medicine.”

“You can’t just ask to be reassigned because you don’t like the internship,” the dean said. “And besides, you haven’t even tried it yet. How do you know you won’t like it?”

because I didn’t like my assignment, and there was no way I could explain the real situation to the dean.

she sighed and pulled out a form. “Just go to the first few sessions,” she said as she filled in a portion of the form. “If you still really hate it by

to go to a few sessions where I’d likely have to deal with the hockey team, seeing as how they were the most likely sports team to be injured, but at least I could get out after that. Not to mention that sports medicine

her office. Jessica was sitting outside. novelxo.com

asked. “What did

I replied. “She wants me

as we headed toward the cafeteria for lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it this way: at

My voice sounded anything

her elbow. “How could you not be excited about getting to touch hot athletes all

I replied. I wanted to tell her that I didn’t want to be near Enzo either, but kept

and I was getting weird. I wondered if he

day, Jessica and I went home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the living room with

and mouth with her shirt and running over to open

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high all

help but laugh

with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field and the hockey

knocked on the door. I opened it and poked my head in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting

greet me. Much to

was not at all what I expected from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In fact, even though she was middle-aged, her bubbly personality

I’m so happy to see another young woman working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in here, so it’s always nice to know that there are other women who are passionate

looked down at my feet, unsure of whether I should tell Tiffany that I actually didn’t want this internship or if

though, because she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not just your mentor with this internship; I’m

some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was

this, but… I was actually hoping

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