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Chapter 10

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

Chapter 10 The Internship

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?”

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

“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

sessions where I’d likely have to deal with the hockey team, seeing as how they were the most likely sports team to be injured, but at least I could

dean dismissed me and I exited her office. Jessica was

“What did

replied. “She wants me to try

what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least you get to deal with all of the handsome athletes, so you’ll

voice sounded anything but

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

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

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

the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a canvas that she was

shirt and running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori chuckled. “I

Chapter 10. The Internship

high all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

but laugh at my friends’

She sent me an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field

a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked up and flashed me a toothy grin as she

desk and coming around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged me. I was a

what I expected from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In fact, even though she was

hugging me. I’m so happy to see another young woman working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in

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

her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not just your mentor with

my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not the

say this, but… I

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