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. How could I tell the dean that I didn’t want to be assigned to the sports medicine internship because

“Just go to the first few sessions,” she said as she filled in a portion

nodded gratefully. I was still a bit disappointed that I’d have 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 was totally not even close to the field I actually wanted to

me and I exited her office. Jessica was

“What

replied. “She wants me to

her chin as we headed toward the cafeteria for lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look

sounded anything but

nudging me with her elbow. “How could you not be excited about

I replied. I wanted to tell her that I didn’t want to be near Enzo

was happening between Enzo and I was getting weird. I wondered if he had something to do with my assignment, considering his influence in the

sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a canvas that she was painting

and mouth with her shirt and running over to open

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all the

couldn’t help but laugh

go and meet 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 the hockey arena.

opened it and poked my head in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a

desk and coming around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged me. I was

who would deal with sweaty, whiny

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

that I actually didn’t want this

expression, 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

as I tried to come up with my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being

but… I was actually hoping for

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