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?”

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

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

how they were the most likely sports team to be injured, but at least I could get out after

me and I exited her office. Jessica was sitting

asked. “What did

no,” I replied. “She wants me to try

lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look

My voice sounded

with her elbow. “How could you not

replied. I wanted to tell her that I didn’t want

between Enzo and I was getting weird. I wondered if he

and I went home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white

mouth with her shirt and running over

Chapter 10. The Internship

high all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

laugh at my friends’

meet my internship mentor for the first time. She sent me an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field and the hockey arena. It was chilly out and getting dark, so I threw my jacket on and headed

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 she waved for me

standing up from her desk and coming around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged me. I

from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In fact, even though

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

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

at me with concern on her face. “Are you

some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually

this, but… I was actually hoping for a different

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