On the Ice (Stick Side, #1)

by Amy Aislin

Alex had been finishing up a draft outline for his book when JP had called and offered him a potential interviewee. “You remember the guy in my tutorial? The one I told you about, who’s almost failing?” JP said, his voice hitting higher calibers in his excitement. “Turns out he’s a Mountaineer who works two jobs. I don’t know his story, but I thought you might want to talk to him for your book. Oh, and I also need you to tutor him and basically hold his hand while he takes my course.” Sure, Alex could tutor in exchange for some fresh perspective for his book. Hell, at this stage, he’d take anything he could get. Which was how he found himself strolling into the library on Monday afternoon. He took the corridor to the right of the library entrance, the one that led to the study rooms, and found number eight, where he was meeting his student. The person already sitting at the small table, impatiently tapping a pen against his thigh and swivelling his chair from side to side, was not at all who Alex was expecting. He froze in the doorway, double checked the number on the door…and looked at Mitch Greyson. “Are you JP’s—John’s—student?” Mitch, wide-eyed and equally frozen in his chair, asked, “You’re my free tutor?” Guess that answered that, then. Setting his messenger bag on the floor, he took a seat across from Mitch and waited for the kid to decide how he was going to play this. It took another few seconds, where they sat eyeballing each other in what was no doubt shock on b...