My Hockey Alpha

“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?”

She 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 around Justin and Enzo?

The dean must have seen my pained expression, 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. “If you still really hate it by then, come to me and we’ll see about a reassignment. Sound good?”

I nodded gratefully. I was still a bit disappointed that I’d have to go to a few 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 not even close to the field I actually wanted to work in.

and I exited her

asked. “What did

I replied. “She

for lunch. ” I know it’s not exactly what you wanted, but look at it

voice sounded anything but

Jessica said, nudging me with her elbow. “How could you

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

between Enzo and I was getting weird. I wondered if he had

floor of the living room with a stained white

Jessica said, covering her nose and mouth with her shirt and running

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high all the time anyway,” Jessica replied

couldn’t help but laugh at my

with her office information; it was located in between the soccer field and the hockey arena. It was chilly out and getting dark, so

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

up from her desk and coming around to greet me.

would deal with sweaty, whiny athletes all day. In fact, even though she

said 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

tell Tiffany that I actually didn’t want

with concern on her face. “Are you alright? You seem depressed.

bit my lip as I tried to come up with my response. For some reason, I felt comfortable being candid with Tiffany even though I was usually not the type of person to spill my feelings

hate to say this, but… I was actually hoping for a

disappointed and a bit hurt, but nodded