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?”

right– I couldn’t just 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 the sports medicine internship

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

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

I exited her office.

she asked. “What

I replied. “She wants

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

voice sounded anything

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

her that I didn’t want to be near Enzo either, but

aside, whatever was happening between Enzo and I was getting weird. I wondered if he had something to do with my assignment, considering his influence in

Jessica and I went home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a canvas that she was painting

covering her nose and mouth with her shirt and running over to open

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all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

but laugh

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

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

and coming around to greet me.

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

another young woman working in sports medicine! We

should tell Tiffany that I actually didn’t want this internship or

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

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

this, but… I was actually hoping for a different

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