Sabbath looked at Noelle, he eyes dropping to the ground.
"Well, I guess this is goodbye then" he said softly. José interjected with a grin, "until tomorrow night, anyway". Sabbath glanced at José and then back to Noelle and smiled.
"Yes, until tomorrow night", he agreed.
Sabbath looked at Hope,
"See you later, Hope", he added. Juliana had hold of Sabbaths hand and was tugging at him to come. "Bye, girls, until tomorrow night, hey", she said with a smirk. She knew very well she wouldn't be welcome. She tugged again on Sabbaths hand so that he took a few steps backwards in her direction, before looking backwards to her and turning to follow.
"Come on José", he added. José looked at Hope, "Ok, oK", he replied as he grinned at her. "I'll see you tomorrow, alright", he turned to catch up to his cousin.
The three Gitanos walked side-by-side down the long drive, Sabbath in the centre. He ambled with his head down, his hands in jammed in his pockets, They continued to walk until they were almost out of view of the treehouse, Sabbath didn't look back.
José turned his head to look at Sabbath, he knew from his silence and body language something was up. "We're not going back tomorrow night, are we?" he enquired. Sabbath glanced up, catching José's eyes. His cousin knew him well. He shook his head,
"No, cousin, we're not" he replied, before resuming his silent walk. Juliana added, "Its for the best Gitano, she was never meant to be yours." They continued down the long drive and as the treehouse disappeared from view. José began to clap in rythym as he walked and Juliana began to sing a sad refrain, her voice full of longing.
https://youtu.be/unkNZQ5Du8o Sabbath joined José and listened, over the coming days he planned to dance, and dance and dance with so much fire that his exhaustion left no energy for the memory of Noelle to pain him.