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?”

and there was no way I could explain the real situation to the dean. How could I

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

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

and I exited her office. Jessica was sitting

she asked. “What did she

replied. “She wants

tapped her chin as we headed toward the cafeteria for lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least

My voice sounded anything

“How could you not be excited

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

wondered if

classes that day, Jessica and I went home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a

shirt and running over to open the window. “The

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high all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

laugh at my friends’

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

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

desk and coming around to greet me.

would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In

she finally pulled away from hugging me. 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

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

because she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not just your

my lip as I tried to come up with my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not the type of person

this, but… I was actually hoping for a different

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