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?”

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

said as she filled in a portion of the form. “If you still really hate it by

to a 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 exited her office. Jessica was sitting

she asked. “What did

no,” I replied. “She wants me to try

what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least you get to deal with all

voice sounded anything but

could you not be excited about getting to touch hot

to be around Justin,” 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

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 canvas

and running over to open

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high all the time anyway,” Jessica

laugh

email with her office information; it was located in

see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting

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

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

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

should tell Tiffany that I actually didn’t want this internship

looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem

comfortable being candid with

this, but… I was actually

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