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

Chapter 10 The Internship

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 that I didn’t want to be assigned to the sports medicine internship because I didn’t want to be around Justin and

have seen 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 really hate

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

exited her office. Jessica was sitting

asked. “What

“She wants me

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

sounded anything but

me with her elbow. “How could you not be excited

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

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

was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a canvas that she

running over to open the window.

Chapter 10. The Internship

you’re high all

laugh at my friends’

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

see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked

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

with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In fact, even though she was middle-aged, her bubbly personality made

she said when 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

actually didn’t want this internship or if I should just let her be happy for the

sad expression, though, because she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not just your mentor with this internship;

to come up with my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I

hate to say this, but… I was actually hoping

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