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

go to the first few sessions,” she said as she filled in a portion of the

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 to the field I actually wanted

exited her office. Jessica was sitting

“What

replied. “She wants me to try it

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

voice sounded

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

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

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

sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet

said, covering her nose and mouth with her shirt and running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori

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all

laugh at my

go and meet my internship mentor for the first time. She sent me an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer

when I knocked on the door. I opened it and poked my head in to see a pretty woman with

must be Nina!” she said, standing up from her desk and coming around to greet me. Much

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 ten

woman working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in here, so it’s always

actually didn’t want this internship or if I

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

come up with my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I

but… I was actually hoping for

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