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?”

was 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 I tell the dean that I didn’t want to be assigned to the sports medicine internship because I didn’t want to be

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 you still really hate it by then,

seeing as how they were the most likely sports team to be injured, but at least I could get

dismissed me and I exited her office.

she asked. “What did she

no,” I replied. “She

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

voice sounded anything

you not be

wanted to tell her that I didn’t want to be

I wondered if he had something to do with my

I went home. Lori was sitting on the floor of the living room with a stained white sheet around her and a canvas that

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

Chapter 10. The Internship

that’s because you’re high all the

couldn’t help but laugh at my friends’

an email with her office information; it was located in between the soccer

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 flashed me a toothy grin as she waved for me to

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

deal with sweaty, whiny

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

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

her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed. You know, I’m

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

to say this, but… I was

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