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?”

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 to

first few sessions,” she said as she filled in a portion of the form. “If you still really hate

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 field I

I exited her office. Jessica

she asked. “What did

said no,” I replied. “She

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 to deal with all of the handsome athletes, so you’ll

My voice sounded anything but

c’mon!” Jessica said, nudging me with her elbow. “How could you not be excited about getting to touch hot athletes

to tell her that I didn’t want to be near

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

the living room with a stained white sheet around her

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

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that’s because you’re high all

couldn’t help but laugh at

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 field

see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked up and flashed me a

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

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

sports medicine! We don’t

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

at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not just your mentor with

some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even

to say this, but… I was

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