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?”

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 I didn’t want to be

must have seen 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 and we’ll see

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

dismissed me and I exited her office.

“What did

I replied. “She wants me to try it

” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least you

My voice sounded

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

to tell her

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

went home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a canvas

her nose and mouth with her shirt and running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori chuckled. “I didn’t

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you’re high all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

couldn’t help but laugh at

it was located in

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

around to greet me. Much to

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

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 it’s

looked down at 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

expression, though, because she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed.

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

I was actually hoping for a

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