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?”

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 didn’t want to be

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.

the most likely sports team to

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

asked. “What did she

no,” I replied. “She

know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it this way: at least you get to deal with all

voice sounded anything but

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

Justin,” I replied. I wanted to tell her that I didn’t want to be near Enzo either, but

weird. I wondered if he

home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white

her shirt and running over to open the window. “The fumes!” Lori

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

couldn’t help but laugh at my

it was located in between the soccer field and the hockey arena. It was chilly out and getting dark, so I

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 come

said, standing up from her desk and coming around to greet me. Much to my surprise, she hugged me.

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

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

I actually didn’t want this internship or if I should just

expression, though, because she looked at me with concern on her face. “Are you alright?

come up with my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not

this, but… I was actually hoping for

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