THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 3--XXXV (CONTINUED)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 3--XXXV
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
XXXV
A.J. is awaken by a cellphone call inside his ear-buds asleep in the chair at Caitlyn's hospital room bedside. Seeing that it was Meadow he answers her early morning call:
"Why do you continue to embrass me & make me appear to be insensitive?!"
A.J. immediately hangs up on his sister. (Good Morning to you too Bing?!)
A.J. rubs his eyes trying to focas his blurry vision on the large loud ticking wall clock at 6:55AM. Standing up to stretch & viewing Caitlyn still peacefully resting. A.J. leans over to kiss her atop the head.
Removing himself from her hospital room to stammer down the hallway to the restroom & relieve his bladder.
Entering the MEN'S restroom to step up to the clean urinal. A.J.'s phone rings again in his earbuds.
"YES?!--Good morning Meadow!" He answers the call in a loud echoing tone from inside the empty hollow restroom as he urinated dark yellow piss turning a neon antifreeze green mixing with the strong smelly blue sanitizer block in the bottom of the wall urinal drain.
"Did you just hang up on me?!" A.J. smiles inside himself before answering his sister: "No.--Not on purpose anyway."
Then Meadow repeated what she had initially asked: "Why do you continue to embrass me & make me appear to be insensitive?!"
"What the fuck are you talking about Bing?!--I'm not even awake yet here."
"Where are you?!"
"I'm in the restroom pissing if you have to know?!"
"What?! You are talking to me from the bathroom?!"
"YEA?!--What do you want Meadow?! Besides to call & giving me shit ?!" A.J. asked as he finished urinating & shaking himself off before zipping up his trousers to wash his hands.
"You are so Gross A.J.!--Call me back when you're done." Meadow sighed disgustingly.
"I'm done now--What do you want Bing?!" Meadow can hear him washing & drying his hands under the hot air-blower.
"Why didn't you tell me about Caitlyn's mother & grandmother yesterday?! I had to hear it second handed from Mom this morning. She called & told me Joanne Moltisanti committed suicide & that "Jackie-O" died overnight after she accidentally fell down a stairwell?!"
"WHEN?!--WHEN WAS I SUPPOSE TO TELL YOU MEADOW?!" There was a silent pause before she answered his question.
"You couldn't tell me last evening at Honeywell's dinner-party?!"
"AGAIN. WHEN BING?!--You were the one who had to drive yourself there & leave early for who knows why?!"
"I had prior private plans made for following the fund-raiser last night." (OK?!)
"That hasn't anything to do with it. You are trying to avoid answering by shifting & placing the blame back unto me!--You could of at least mentioned it to me before Mom calls before dawn from Miami to inform me?!"
"Where were you then?!" A.J. grins asking.
"What's it matter where I was or what I was doing?! You disappear all the time & are gone for days at end & no one asks you where you've been or what you're doing?!" (Whose deflecting the blame now?!)
"SHUT-UP A.J.!"
"OK--That's fair but no matter where I am or what I am doing I don't fall off the fucking grid where you can't contact me anytime you want or need to--at a drop of a hat!" A.J. knew that burned her ass.
"Goddamn you Anthony!--That's not Fair!" (OH--But it is Fair & True!)
"Why can't you just tell me about shit when it happens so I don't have to hear it from someone else & feel embrassed?!"
"For one thing--You have to make yourself available & accessible Meadow! I don't have the time or energy to play Fuck--Fuck Patty-Cakes games with you! ("POOR YOU!") But everything has to always be top-secret or some kind of goddamn guessing game with you & your private agency!"
"Now you are just being a little asshole A.J."
"No. You are the one being the little bitch here Meadow! You are mad at me because Mom is the one who knew about it to tell you before I could."
"Alright.--Enough. Just tell me now then what the fuck is going on?!"
"Nothing. Nothings going on now!" (WHAT?!)
"Nothings going on now." (I heard you but what's that suppose to mean?!)
"It means just what I said Meadow. Caitlyn is recovering from her post surgery & the doctors are expecting her to be released to return home today or tomorrow."
"Return Home?!--Return Home where if her mother & Joanne are both dead?!"
"Aunt Barbara is here with her now & will take her back to Junior's house in Bellville until everything can be sorted out."
"Where are you at now then?!" (I spent the night with Caitlyn here at St Jude's sleeping in a chair--I want her to feel safe & not alone.")
"OH--OK?! So you are the thoughtful & considerate big brother while I am left looking like the selfish & self-centered older sister?!" Meadow sarcastically growled meanly.
"You said that--I didn't Bing!"
"YOU BASTARD!" (CLICK.) Meadow hangs up on A.J. as he chuckles reentering Caitlyn's hospital room to find his Aunt Barbara there with two cups of black coffee.
"What's So Funny Anthony this early in the morning?!" Barbara asked warmly smiling as she hands him his coffee.
"Oh--Nothing. Just Meadow. Throwing one of her little hissy bitch fits! I guess Mom called her & lit a fire under her ass first thing this morning!"
"Over What?!" A.J. knods--gesturing over at "Caitlyn" who remained sound asleep after her exhausting chain of events thus far that week.
Vito appears with a box of donuts to relieve A.J. of his guard-duty until Tommy came later to relieve him while retrieving Caitlyn & his mother.
But before A.J. could leave the hospital all of the Soprano women & siblings had arrived before Caitlyn could have her breakfast & donuts.
Meadow & Franny arrived first then Janice came with Sophia Nica & Caitlyn's new little puppy Tori to reunite them. The puppy jumped around on the bed amusing everyone before Tori leaps up into Caitlyn's giggling arms to lick her glowing face.
Meadow approached A.J. with a tear in her watery eyes to hug his neck & kiss his cheek while apologizing under her breath in his ear.
A.J. gives her a questioning look.
"I guess between my summer allergies flaring up & starting my period this morning I am out of sorts?!" Meadow gives him a dismissing smile as she wipes the single tear away from her blushing cheek.
"OH--Just so you know?! Mom is returning to Jersey again this evening before dinner-time! She is coming back for the double funeral.
Won't she be surprised to learn that Caitlyn isn't her precious Moltisanti niece but actually her little bastard step-daughter?!"
A.J. could see what Meadow was doing. She was turning the knife. She really wasn't really as sorry as she had just apologized for being. But using it as a string board to launch out at a new battleground between her & their mother.
"She will be OK!" A.J. half chuckles. ("You Think?!")
"Yea. She seems to be genuinely Happy enough about Vito & Franny?!" (I don't know if "HAPPY" is the right word?!)
"Well let's just say: She has accepted it far better then anyone could of ever expected!"
( "WE SHALL SEE?!" )
. . .
(To Be Continued)
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