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?”

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 because I didn’t want to be

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 about a

was still a bit disappointed 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 out after that. Not to mention that

her office. Jessica was sitting outside.

“What did

said no,” I replied. “She wants me

what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least you get to deal with all

voice sounded anything

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

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

aside, whatever was happening between Enzo and I was getting weird. I wondered if he had something to

that day, 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

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

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you’re high all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

laugh at my

me an email with her office information; it was located in

and poked my head in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk.

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 bit

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

finally pulled away from hugging me. I’m so happy to see another young woman working in sports medicine! We don’t usually get female students in here, so it’s always nice to know

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

her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not just your mentor with this internship;

felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not the type

hate to say this, but… I was actually hoping for a

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