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?”

real situation to the dean. How could I tell the dean

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

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 out after that. Not to mention that sports medicine was totally not even close to the

dean dismissed me and I exited her office. Jessica was sitting outside.

“What

no,” I replied. “She

wanted, but look at it this

My voice sounded anything but

nudging me with her elbow. “How could you not be excited about getting to touch hot

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

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

of the living room with

her nose and mouth with her shirt and running

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you’re high all the time anyway,” Jessica

help but laugh

it was time for me to go and meet my internship mentor for the first time. She sent me an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer

in!” a chipper voice called when I knocked on the door. I opened it and poked my head in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked up and flashed me a toothy grin as she

standing up from her desk and coming around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged me.

not at all what I expected from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In fact,

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 nice to know that there

looked down at my feet, unsure of whether I should tell Tiffany that I actually didn’t want this

her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not

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

say this, but… I was actually hoping for a

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