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?”

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

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

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

her

asked. “What did

said no,” I replied. “She wants me to try it

but look at it this way:

My voice sounded anything

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

just don’t want to be around Justin,” I replied. I wanted to tell her that I didn’t want to be near Enzo either, but kept it to

wondered if he had something to do with my

the living room with a

mouth with her shirt and running

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that’s because you’re high all the time anyway,”

couldn’t help but laugh at

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 field and the hockey

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

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

would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes

sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in here, so it’s always nice to know that there are other women who are

unsure of whether I should tell Tiffany that I actually didn’t want this internship or if I should just let her be happy

expression, though, because she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you

come up with my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being

but… I was actually

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