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

Chapter 10 The Internship

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?”

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 I

few sessions,” she said as she filled in a

I’d likely have to deal with the hockey team, seeing as how they were the most likely sports team

dismissed me and I exited her office. Jessica was sitting outside. novelxo.com

“What did

no,” I replied. “She wants me to try it

not exactly what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least you get to deal with all of the handsome

voice sounded anything but

c’mon!” Jessica said, nudging me with her elbow. “How could you not be

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

Enzo and I was getting weird. I wondered if he

the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a

and mouth with her shirt and running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori chuckled. “I didn’t

Chapter 10. The Internship

all the time anyway,”

but laugh at

first time. She sent me an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field

woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked up and flashed me a toothy grin as

standing up from her desk and coming around to greet me. Much

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

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 that there

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

on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m not just

reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though

this, but… I was actually

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