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?”

for a new internship 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

my pained expression, because 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 then, come to me

few sessions where I’d likely have to deal with the hockey team, seeing as how they were the most likely sports team to

I exited her office.

she asked. “What did

I replied. “She wants me

it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it this

My voice sounded anything but

you not be excited about getting to touch hot athletes all

to tell her that

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

that day, Jessica and I went home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the

running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori

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all the

laugh at my

her office information; it

in!” a chipper voice called when I knocked on the door. I opened it 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

from her desk and coming around to greet me. Much

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 made her appear

me. 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

of whether I should tell Tiffany that I actually didn’t want this internship or if I should just let her be happy for

concern on her face. “Are you

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

this, but… I was actually hoping for a

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