THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 3--IX (CONTINUED)
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 3--IX
BY
J. BECK
2024
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(CONTINUED)
IX
A.J. calls Compagino while Robbie Pontecorvo drove them back across the Hudson River to New Jersey from Dumbo NYC . In route of the Newark Hospital to meet his Aunt Barbara.
A.J. lights a cigarette when Compagino eventually answered.
"CORK." (T.?) "YES--TALK:"
"We have a problem!" (What kind of problem?) "It's a Big Problem!" (That doesn't tell me a goddamn thing Compagino!)
"Did you have a conflict with anyone?" (When?) "Yesterday?" (Maybe? With Who?) "A Bondsman?"
"Yea--I had alittle brush up with some crude mother-fucking low-life slob?"(Yea--Do you know he is?!) "No. & I could care fucking less!"
"Well A.J."--(DON'T FUCKING "WELL" ME CORK!)
"OK--A.J. This guy is the first cousin of Jerry Basale & his name is Romeo Basale from Brooklyn & Long Island. (Yea.--So What? What's he doing over here on our West Banks?)
"This Romeo pays a big vig to the Baroses--Larry & Albert for permission & protection to operate his business in Newark." (Whose Larry?!--I haven't seen him since the Vote at the Capos Dinner?!) "Yea.--I know." (Oh You Know?! So fill me in then!) "Oh I can't explain it T. I am just aware of it like that."
"OK then so tell me Cork--Is this Romeo Fuck a friend of ours'?!" ( No.--He's only an associate.)
"So then what is the goddamn problem here Compagino?! It's not like I whacked the worthless son of a bitch?! Which in itself wouldn't fucking matter either?!"
"I understand that Anthony--But Albert has requested a sit-down with you!"
"You have to be fucking kidding me Cork?! This warrents a goddamn sit-down?!"
"We should T. to respectfully address it & put it to bed. We want to keep Peace in our Family & the NYC Families."
"REALLY?!-- KEEP THE PEACE?! You aren't making any sense to me Compagino! But--I will agree to having a sit-down with Albert as long as he brings Larry with him any where--anytime!--How about that?!"
"OK T.-- I will pass that onto them then."
"You do that Cork--& Get back to me!" (CLICK)
"PROBLEMS?!" Robbie asked. A.J. answers his question with a smiling glare & pointing straight ahead . (Just Drive.)
Arriving at Newark Hospital; Robbie drops A.J. off at the front lobby doors to go park & await A.J.'s return.
A.J. went to the cafeteria to grab a coffee & muffin to meet his Aunt Barbara & Tommy. A.J. hands Tommy a 20$ & instructs him to buy three coffees & muffins to take out to Robbie waiting in the car. Which enabled A.J. to speak candidly about making funeral arrangements.
BARBARA (SOPRANO) GIGLIONE
(WIDOW OF THOMAS GIGLIONE JR)
Barbara tells A.J. that the body could be claimed after an autopsy has been concluded. And she desired to have her husband cremated. Admitting how painful it was for her to view & identify his naked corpse without bandages & wrapping.
She didnt want her children to view him like that. So if they buried him it would have to be a closed casket. So Barbara felt that if he was cremated before a funeral it would release his Soul from his badly broken body.
A.J. silently listened as his Aunt continued by requesting Hyles Funeral Home claims Tom's body & cremated him. Which A.J. assures her that he'd arrange that for her.
Then Barbara told A.J. that she had phoned Tom's Boss' wife to inform her husband that Tom had peacefully passed away over night in his sleep.
& Barbara was told that the news media crews were camped outside of their residence in Brewster asking questions about Tom's connection to the late Don Corrado John Soprano?!
Suggesting that Barbara remains wherever she was to avoid the unwanted advances of the unrelenting news media.
But Barbara refused to stay over at her older sister Janice's house if she decided to wait before returning home.
A.J. places his hand atop his Aunt's & told her that she could stay as long as she wanted at Uncle Junior's house if she desired.
He explained how he had determined that the house was more valuable to the Family by keeping it instead of liquidating it for cash to divide between them.
A.J. continued telling her how he had the belongings removed from the entire house to be put in secure storage. So the house could be gutted & stripped down. All the walls were freshly painted & the new carpet was waiting to be laid. He would have replacement applicances delivered with furniture & beds before the end of the weekend. In the meanwhile she could take a room in Dumbo.
"Are you sure it isn't too much trouble for you?! (It's no trouble at all!) A.J. walks her out of the hospital to locate Tommy. Who A.J. instructs him to drive his mother over to Dumbo to join her daughter--his sister Alyssa who was staying with Meadow & Franny there. Then return to T-Storage Compound to catch back up with them.
A.J. hugs & kissed his Aunt as he assisted her into the car for Tommy to drive her over to NYC. A.J. also told her that they could fly Alyssa back to Syracuse Monday instead of Tommy driving her all the way back to upstate New York for school.
A.J. gets into his car & tells Robbie to drive to T-Storage while he called Hymie Hyle to retrieve his Uncle's body to be cremated.
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(To Be Continued)
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