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?”

like my assignment, and there was no way I could explain the real situation to the dean. How could I tell the

out a form. “Just go to the first few sessions,” she said as she filled in a portion of the

I was still a bit disappointed that I’d have to go 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 could get

dismissed me and I exited her office. Jessica was

asked. “What did

replied. “She wants me

lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but

sounded anything but

you not be excited about

to tell her that I

and I was getting weird. I wondered if he had something to

of the living room with a stained white

and mouth with her shirt and running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori chuckled. “I

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high all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

but laugh at my friends’

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,

poked my head in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair

standing up from her desk and coming around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged me. I was a bit taken

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

away from hugging me. I’m so happy to see another young woman working in sports medicine! We don’t

I actually didn’t want this internship or if

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

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

this, but… I was

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