THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 2--XIV (CONTINUED)
THE YOUNG SOPRANO
PART 2--XIV
BY J. BECK
2024
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(CONTINUED)
XIV
A.J. walks out of his Fleet St apartment building with his loose dress-tie draped around his unbuttoned collar & a cigarette dangling from his top lip ahead of Vito after having sex with Roxanne while Vito shit showered & shaved. A.J. tosses his keys back over his head to Vito when he heard the door slamming shut behind him.
"You drive V." A.J. runs his fingers through his long greasy hair as he opens the curb-parked car's front passenger door. " It's already as Hot as a Popcorn Fart out here!"
Vito agrees as he climbed into the steamy car's driver's seat slipping the key into the ignition to leave when they hear Roxanne calling for them to wait. She tip-toed out to their parked car barefoot & wearing only a long baggy night-shirt carrying them out two white-foam cups to go. "You forgot your coffees!-Damn its hot as fuck out here!" Roxanne said handing A.J. the cups through the car-window while marching in place lifting her feet off the hot concrete sidewalks.
ROXANNE
"A.J. hands Vito his & pulls out the long over-sized leather wallet to give Roxanne four 500$ bills. "HERE--For your shopping trip today with Neesha. Get her whatever she wants & get Rhonda & yourself new outfits for tomorrow. "
"AH T.!--You are the Greatest! Thank-you!" She leans into the window to frame his frame to kiss him. "I love you Anthony."
"OK. Let's go Vito--We got shit to do!"
As Vito pulls off he asked "Where to T.?"
"East Newark." & A.J. calls Meadow to inform her that he had already addressed their mother first thing & shut her down.
"How did you do that T.?"
"I just turned the TV on so she see all the news reports featuring Junior's Funeral & the Gay Gun & Violence Protesters gathering outside Corrado's house & St Lucy's Catholic Church."
A.J. hangs up with Meadow & reaches for his coffee cup saying: "Could you see all those Queers showing up at a mob-funeral?" He laughed as he took a big gulp of coffee & spewed it from his mouth out of the moving car's window. "Jesus Fucking Christ Vito!" (WHAT?!) " THAT COFFEE--IT TASTE LIKE SHIT!" A.J. tosses the rest of the cup out. "Where did you learn how to make coffee?"
Vito sheepishly grins trying not to laugh as A.J. spit & wiped his mouth. "Did you taste it?!" (No.) "TASTE IT!" A.J. hands him his cup. "Here!"
Vito sips it. Take a big swallow!" A.J. tipped the cup up. Vito takes the cup from him & throws it out the window as he attempted to gag it down. " Yea. You're Right T." Wiping his mouth with his jacket sleeve laughing when A.J.'s cellphone lights up.
"It's Meadow--Again.--Yes Bing."
MEADOW (SOPRANO) WEISS
& OMERTA
" Can I ask you something T.?" (Sure Sis-Ask Away!) "How did you already know that Junior was dead ?"
A.J. looks over at Vito before answering her with a shit-eating grin across his face. "I knew he was dead because I killed him!"
After a momentary pause Meadow said: "OK. That's what I figured--But I had to ask."
"No problemo Bing--You can always ask me anything!"
"Is that a Dig against me A.J.?!"
"WHAT?!--A DIG?! NO. I am being sincere Meadow! Why is it a Dig?!"
"Because you know I can't tell you everything anytime?!"
"Christ Meadow--Mom being back has you acting all insecure & suspicious of stupid fucking shit like that?! You need to get a grip big sister because I need you at my side these next two days! Besides. What do you have to tell me that I don't already know?!"
"NOTHING."
"EXACTLY!--Now I have to fucking go. I will see you back in Dumbo tonight sometime."
"I'm sorry A.J."
"No Apologies Bing. I love you--Bye." (CLICK.)
A.J. runs his fingers through his long greasy hair as he digs for his cigarette pack inside his jacket pocket mubbling that he needed a hair-cut.
Vito says: "You know T. Roxanne can cut hair?!"
"No. I didn't know that. How do you know?!"
"She cut mine for me when I came back & started working for you."
"First thing? You don't work for me Vito--We are in this ("Thing") together. We are brothers--we are Equals always. Secondly--She did a good job then. Where did she learn to do that?"
"I guess at a vocational high school somewhere? But she said being a stripper paid better & less hours on her feet!" The two brothers had a chuckle over that.
A.J. calls Geno as they crossed the bridge over into East Newark: "Geno my Man! How did your Books fare after that hockey game last night?!"
"Great T!--We cleaned up on both side's! All the money was coming in from both sides of the Hudson River on the Predators to come back in the Series for minus money. We took everything & put it on the Penguins to WIN the game & the series for plus money!--I will have a really fat envelope for you tomorrow T! & We still have the NBA FINALS tonight! All the money is coming in the same way on Cleveland to extend the series for minus money & the Warriors are on plus money!"
"What side are you on G?!"
"Golden State on the Moneyline & the Series & the MVP in a three-leg parlay!
"Whose the MVP?!"
"ITS A PICK-EM--Both are at +200." (SO?!") " So--I don't know yet T?! I still have all day to decide i guess?"
"Fuck that Geno--You will loose these current Odds!"
A.J. takes out the over-sized leather wallet still half stuffed with cash to count it out. A.J. covers the phone to ask Vito if he wanted in on the wager saying "Half of this is your's!" Vito knods his head (Yes) as he stared straight ahead at the road without looking.
"OK Geno--I have 10 Units here--Give me the same parlay action right now. I want the Warriors to WIN the Game & the Series plus to Cover the -8.5 Spread & Go Over the Total with Durrant winning the MVP!--& Then YOU can do whatever YOU want whenever YOU want!"
"OK T. Whatever you Say--You're the Man!"
"No. You are the Man Geno--I gotta go. I will see you first thing tomorrow--Later." (CLICK.)
"LETS GO FIND SOME A/C
&
AN ESPRESSO MACHINE
SOMEWHERE!"
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(To Be Continued)
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