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?”

simply because I didn’t like my assignment, and there was no way I could explain the real situation to the dean. How could I tell the dean that I didn’t want to be assigned to the sports medicine internship

she said as she filled in a portion of the form. “If you still

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 was totally not even close to the field I

and I exited her office. Jessica was sitting outside. novelxo.com

asked. “What

said no,” I replied. “She wants me

exactly what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least

My voice sounded anything

could you not be excited about getting to touch hot athletes

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

aside, whatever was happening between Enzo and I was getting weird. I wondered if he had something to do with my assignment,

Lori was sitting on the floor of the

Jessica said, covering her nose and mouth with her shirt and running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori chuckled. “I

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high all the time

help but laugh at my friends’

my internship mentor for the first time. She sent me an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field and

poked my head in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked up and flashed me a toothy grin as she waved for me to

said, standing up from her desk and coming around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged me. I was

expected from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes

from hugging me. I’m so happy to see another young woman working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in

my feet, unsure of whether I should tell Tiffany that I actually didn’t want this internship or if I should just let her be happy for the time

face. “Are you alright?

my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I

I was actually

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