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

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

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

exited her office. Jessica was sitting

asked. “What did she

replied. “She wants

it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it this

sounded anything but

her elbow. “How could you not be excited about

replied. I wanted to tell her that I didn’t want to

wondered if he had something to do

on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a canvas that she was painting

running over to open

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high all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

couldn’t help but laugh

She sent me an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field and the hockey arena. It was chilly

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

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

who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all

medicine! We don’t usually get female students in here, so it’s always nice to

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 alright?

reason, I felt comfortable being

hate to say this, but… I was actually hoping

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