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?”

couldn’t just ask 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.

few sessions,” she said as she filled in a portion of the form. “If you still really hate it

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

her office. Jessica was sitting outside.

“What

said no,” I replied. “She wants me

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

My voice sounded anything

“How could you

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

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

running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori chuckled. “I didn’t notice

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you’re high all the time anyway,” Jessica

couldn’t help but laugh at

office information; it was located in between the soccer field and the hockey arena. It was chilly

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 grin as

around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she

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

said when 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 it’s always nice to

didn’t want this internship or if I should

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

comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not the type of person to spill my

I was

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