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?”

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

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 it by then, come to me and we’ll see

how they were the most likely sports team to be injured, but at least

her office. Jessica was

asked. “What did she

I replied. “She wants

headed toward the cafeteria for lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it

sounded

“How could you not be excited about getting to touch hot

to tell her that

between Enzo and I was getting weird. I wondered if he had something

sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a

her nose and mouth with her shirt and running over

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that’s because you’re high all the

laugh at

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

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

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

mentor’s vitality and warmth; it was not at all what I expected from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny

another young woman working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in here,

that I actually didn’t want

at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know,

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

I was actually hoping for

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