Originally Posted by Tegz

When he'd finally heard what had happened, aside from beating himself up about it, West had pretty much immediately been caught up by two contrasting urges. The first was to go find Jozsua and just... hang out with him, be there for his friend despite everything, and the second was to hang back and give him space. He'd gone with the second for reasons of his own but once he'd realised his mate was now completely avoiding him and apparently everyone else? Yeahh not so much. He wasn't going to just let that go.

It wasn't exactly that he was looking for Jozsua in that moment either, he just happened to be on his way outside, heading to a particular part of the lake actually. So spotting Jozsua by the tree was really a bonus. West stopped in his tracks and waited for the other boy to notice him, then he jerked his head in the direction he was going, a definite suggestion for Jozsua to follow him... if he happened to still believe in the whole 'always mates' thing they'd both promised.

He paused for a moment longer and then set off in the usual direction, to his usual spot.