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?”

assignment, and there was no way I could explain the real situation to the dean. How could I tell the dean that

sessions,” she said as she

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

dismissed me and I exited her office.

she asked. “What did

“She wants me to

Jessica tapped her chin as we headed toward the cafeteria for lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least you get to deal with all of the handsome athletes, so you’ll never be

voice sounded anything

me with her elbow. “How could you

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

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 living room with a stained white

her nose and mouth with her shirt and running over to

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high all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

help but laugh at my

sent me an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field and the hockey arena. It was chilly out and getting dark, so I

in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked up

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

who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In fact, even though she was middle-aged, her bubbly personality

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

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

she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you

I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not the

say this, but… I was actually hoping for

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