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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

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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 the dean

expression, because she sighed and pulled out a form. “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 then, come to me and we’ll see about

few 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 get out after that. Not to mention that sports medicine was totally not even close

and I exited her office. Jessica was sitting outside.

asked. “What did

said no,” I replied. “She wants me to try it

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

My voice sounded

said, nudging me with her elbow. “How could you

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

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

the living room with a stained white sheet around

nose and mouth with her shirt and running over to

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that’s because you’re high all the time anyway,”

but laugh at my

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

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

her desk and coming around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged me.

from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day.

happy to see another young woman working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in

at my feet, unsure of whether I should tell Tiffany that I actually didn’t want this internship or if I should

“Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not

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

hate to say this, but… I was actually

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