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?”

no way I could explain the real situation to the dean. How could I tell the dean that I didn’t want

dean must 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 hate it by then, come to me and we’ll see

hockey team, seeing as how they were the most likely sports team to be injured, but at least I could get out after

and I exited her

“What

no,” I replied. “She wants

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

sounded anything

with her elbow. “How could you not be excited about getting to

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

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

I went home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around her

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

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all

couldn’t help but laugh

with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field and the hockey arena. It was chilly out and getting dark,

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

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

all what I expected from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny

so happy to see another young woman working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in here, so it’s always

actually didn’t want this internship or if I should just

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

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

say this, but… I was actually hoping for a different

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