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?”

I couldn’t just ask for a 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 didn’t want to be assigned

my pained 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

most likely sports team to be injured, but

her office.

she asked. “What did she

no,” I replied. “She wants me to try

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 you get

My voice sounded

“How could you not be excited about getting

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

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

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

nose and mouth with her shirt and running over

Chapter 10. The Internship

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

laugh at my friends’

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

poked my head in to see a pretty woman with

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

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

working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in here, so it’s always nice to know that

Tiffany that I actually didn’t want this internship

though, because she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m

being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not the type of person to spill my

say this, but… I was actually hoping

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