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Chapter 10

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?”

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 because

said as she filled in a portion of the form. “If you still really hate

the most likely sports team to be injured, but at least I could get

and I exited her office.

“What did

“She wants me to

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

My voice sounded

you not be

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

I wondered if he had something

was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained

mouth with her shirt and running over to open the window. “The

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

couldn’t help but laugh at

for the first time. She sent me an email with her office information; it

it 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 grin as she waved for me to

around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged me.

and warmth; it was not at all what I expected from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In fact, even though she was middle-aged, her bubbly personality made her appear

said when she 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

actually didn’t want this internship or if I should just let her be happy

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

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

to say this, but… I was actually

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