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?”

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

sighed and pulled out a form. “Just go to the first few sessions,” she said as she filled in a portion of the form.

how they were the most

dismissed me and I exited her office. Jessica was sitting

“What did she

“She

you wanted, but look at it

voice sounded anything but

Jessica said, nudging me with her elbow. “How could you not be excited about getting

be around Justin,” I replied. I wanted to tell her that I didn’t want to be near Enzo either, but

was getting weird. I wondered if he

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

shirt and running over to open the

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because you’re high all the time anyway,”

help but laugh

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

a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked up and

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

at all what I expected from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day.

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

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 for the time

must have noticed my sad expression, though, because she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not

comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though

I was actually hoping

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