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.

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

likely have to deal with the hockey team, seeing as how they were the most likely sports team to be injured, but at

I exited her office. Jessica

asked. “What

I replied. “She wants

Jessica tapped her chin as we headed toward the cafeteria for lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look

sounded anything

“How could you not be excited about getting to touch

just don’t want to be around Justin,” I replied. I wanted to tell her that

getting weird. I wondered if he had something to do with

classes 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

her nose and mouth with her shirt and running over to open the

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you’re high all the time

but laugh

was time for me to go and meet my internship mentor for the first time. She sent me an email with her office information; it was

knocked on the door. I opened it and poked my head in to see a pretty woman with wavy brown hair sitting at a desk. She looked up and

coming around to greet me. Much

mentor’s vitality and warmth; it was not at all what I expected from a person who would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In

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 are

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

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

being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not the

say this, but… I was actually

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