THE YOUNG SOPRANOS END OF PART 3--XXXVII
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 3--XXXVII
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
XXXVII
The Palmice Brothers Mikey Jr & Franky entered the Private Bull Red Arena Suite & approached A.J. To hand off a small envelope with the numbers: 21,397.29 written on the outside & 2000$ cash inside from their widow-mother Josephine (& sister Primrose) with his 20% from his new "FRIDAY CLOSE" Number Game.proceeds after the second week.
Mikey & Franky both thanked A.J. for involving their mother (& little sister) with his new ground-floor racket.
The two brothers agreeded that their mother (& sister) hadn't been so happy since their father's death over a decade before.
A.J. assured them that he was more then happy to do it & that he appreciated & valued their effort & enthusiasm!
The two brothers laughed telling A.J. that Josephine was pushing the new game by drawing circles like she was selling AMWAY Soaps!
Using their formula to promote the game by enlisting 10 people to cluster 10 more people each to equal 100 who in turn would equal 1000 people. Those 1000 people will eventually equal 10K & then those will equal 100K before ultimately reaching 1 million people playing.
Tommy & Bobby arrived together next. Tommy hands off a small piece of cardboard with figures to A.J.
"Well?!" A.J. asked as he looked over the card.
" Bottom-line: 400K$ Profit in 5 days!"
A.J. slowly cracks a dirty grin!
"That's pretty good goddamn work for your first week on the job Cousin!" A.J. laughs slapping Tommy across the back. A.J. walks him up to the open bar & waves Vito over.
"We have to make a Salute & take a Belt in recognition of "T-3"! This fucker just generated 400K$ profit on the job in his first week! That's 70K$ a fucking day!"
A.J. poured them all three a glass of rum to Raise & Salute Tommy who was modestly blushing knowing he didn't do anything except follow A.J.'s instructions. But it was Genius & A.J. was the one who had the vision & was the architect of their investment firm platform.
Geno & Jake entered looking around to see that the Palmice Brothers & the two Young Soprano Cousins had actually arrived before them.
"What the Fuck Geno?! You & Jake!--You're Slipping!"A.J. teased his long trusted friends: "You're going to have to Step up your Games!--We have a new Top-Earner!"
"WHO?!" ("T-3"!)
"HOW MUCH?!" (400K$!)
"SCREW THAT NEWBIE BOOKWORM EDUCATED MOTHERFUCKER!" Geno roars in laughter as he congratulates Tommy with a strong hand-shake & a rough hug whispering:
"You Bastard!--I only made 100K$ this week off the Books!"
A J. pours Geno & Jake a drink for them to lift & Salute Tommy when Geno teases: "Now. Let's See if Tommy-Boy here can do it Again?! & Again & Again & Again?!" They all cheerfully laughed.
Then Geno & Jake pulled A.J. aside to speak to him privately around a corner.
"What is it Boys?!--You know I don't like it when you look so Seriously Serious at me." A.J. asked as he waves Vito over to join them.
"You know we had our Wednesday Night Poker Game in SATRIALE'S Kitchen?! (Yea?!)
"Well--it was my Oldman/Carlo Coco Jake & myself playing poker with Compagino. " (OK?!)
"That Fucking COMPAGINO?!--Was really Out of Sorts!" Geno looks sideways for Jake to confirm his claim. (He was. More so than usual. )
'How So?!--That Fuck is always "Out of Sorts" as far as I am concerned! "A.J. assured them.
"He's all uptight over that Romeo Basale's murder & all of the accusations surrounding it."
"We all know how he is such a paranoid alarmist!" A.J. glared: " Christ."
"Well--He Warned us not to tell you about it because you will refuse to hear any of it & then you will take it out on him for our aggravation of you!" (He actually told you that?!)
Geno looks at Jake who knodded in agreement with him. A.J. laughed rolling his eyes at Vito.
"So what else did he say?!" A.J. asked lighting a cigarette before walking away adding: "Does anyone have any Blow?!"
And he had seven small baggies of rock cocaine tossed to him as he bellies up to the bar for a second drink. Swiping them all into his side jacket pocket except one that he held up to examine before tossing over for Vito to cut out a series of "Gagger" Lines.
"What the fuck else did Compagino say again?!--Where is that fashionably late motherfucker anyway?!" A.J. resumed his conversation with Geno & Jake while Vito listened along in the background.
"He wanted to know if we knew who murdered Romeo?!" (& You Said?!)
"We told him: "NO.--No. We didnt know anything about it." (& Then?!)
"He got all Pricky & Indignified with us! Almost insinuating that we were fucking lying to him?!" (Really?!)
Geno said that he told Compagino: "You know as well as the rest of us that if A.J. Whacked Romeo?! Nobody would of ever found that fat fucker's body!"
"He told us that he had attended Barese poker game Tuesday night at their Albatross Social Club. The night after Larry & Albert wete summoned to sit-down with Jerry Basale over in NYC.
Cork said that Jerry learned of his cousin Romeo Basale's murder Monday while he was down in Miami visiting Little Carmine & immediately returned north.
Jerry is convinced that you were responsible for killing Romeo but he can not prove it. So he is leaning g on Larry & Albert to dig up proof to support his suspicions.
So I guess Larry was pressuring Compagino to give them some answers that he told them he didn't have."
"I gave him my answer to give those yellow-dog fucks before he left to go there if they dared suggest anything against Us: I told him to tell them to "Go Fuck Yourselves!"--Then walk out before they could insult his/their Don any farther!'
"Compagino said he told them that you personally denied any involvement or responsibility to him. & Then they asked him if he honestly believed that?!" (And?!)
"Well Coco spoke up for you telling Compagino to shut the fuck up. & That it doesn't fucking matter if he or anyone else believed you or not!
"The Boss is the Boss! & If that is what your Boss said?!--Then it is your/our Truth!
My Oldman butt's in agreement with Coco & told Cork to fucking drop it & play cards! So Cork never answered."
A.J. greets & welcomes Robbie Pontecorvo & Raymond Curto Jr as they arrived entering the private suite.
A.J. stood between the two young men. & Put an arm around Robbie's neck to pull him down to hug Raymond's neck itting in his wheelchair to tell them to meet A.J. at the T-Storage Unit Compound Sunday evening at 6PM if they both still wanted to "Make their Bones"?! (FUCK YEA WE DO!)
"GOOD MEN!--Now tell me how much cash was in those suitcases?!" A.J. asked releasing his strong-hold on them.
"Not as much as you'd suspect--400K$ it was mostly smaller bills without any 500$ bills." Raymond answered.
"That will be enough to get you two started in our new business venture! But first things first--Lets get Sunday taken care of first then we will advance forward come Monday! I want you two to remained solely focased on the task at hand which I will fill you in with the contract & instructions on Sunday. & You can launch your "MURDER INC!" A.J. winked & laughed seeing Raymond's face light up as he poured & handed each of them a drink.
Robbie told A.J. that he had something to tell him. A.J. peers over at Raymond who grins & knods his head--saying: "You have to hear this shit T!" before sampling his drink & digging for his cigarette pack.
A.J. directed them over to a corner booth to sit & have a private conversation.
"What's Up Duck?!" (DUCK?!) Raymond gives Robbie a questioning sideways look.
"Wednesday night Franny (& my sister Alle) asked me to drive them out to Long Island to visit her mother's house. She paid me 100$ to do it & for fuel." (Really?!)
"YEA.--So we three enter & Franny welcomes us to her mother's "House of Ill-Repute". & Here there are four men sitting around the dining roomtableplaying Black-Jack & a young woman with Franny's mother Marie in the kitchen preparing lobsters & steaks for dinner.
Franny & Alle disappeared into another room in the huge old Victorian house where Francesca began playing the piano.
The four men asked me if I had any money I'd want to gamble?! They were going to play a 5 hour poker game after dinner. It would cost me 2000$ to buy in. I said Yea!--Sure. Count me in!" (SO?! What Happened?!)
"I fucking won!--I won back my entire buy-in plus 2000$ profit in winnings!"
"OK?!--So you Won! Good for you Duck! You lucky fucker! But are you sure they didn't just let you win only to invite you back again & again to fleece you for more?!"
"OH--I DONT KNOW?!" (Did they invite you back to play again?! (NO.) Well maybe you did win on your own they?!"
Raymond interjected:"Tell T. would you were playing against Rob!" (WHO?!)
"FRIENDS OF YOURS!" (Friends of Mine?!)
"Yep! Jerry Sr & Jerry Jr Basales Raymond D'Abaldo & some short pudgy Albie character!" (You are shitting me?!)
"Nope!"
A.J. half laughs & lights a cigarette. "& You took all their money?!" (No. Not all--Just Some!)
"Did you know who they were?!"
"Not initially but it didnt take long to determine!" (Did they know who you were?!)
"No.--I don't believe so. Franny merely introduced me as her girl-friend Alle's brother Robbie who was there driver."
"Gotcha Duck!--That Jerry fucker would of shit himself if he knew who you really were!"
"Yes. I'd agree with that assessment & settlement! All that fucker could talk about was his dead cousin Romeo & How he just knew it was you who Whacked him but he couldn't prove it repeatedly until that Raymond D'Abaldo told him to fucking drop it & play cards!"
The three young men laughed about it until A.J. receives a cell-phone call from Meadow down on the floor ring-side with her Posey of future Feminist.
"Yes?! My darling big sister!" A.J. answered grinning at Raymond & Robbie--(Save that darling sister crap A.J.!)
"I'M SERIOUS BING! " (SO AM I ANTHONY!) The two siblings laugh at each other together.
"Well I'm glad you that you're not still mad at me!"
"I never said that A.J.!--I just wondered what your betting strategy & approach would be wagering on Stella's Main Event Fight?!" (STRATEGY? APPROACH?!--You sound like a big time better now Bing!)
"Well--I sorta Am!" Meadow giggles.
"How about you tell me your strategy & approach then Sis?!"
"The Public is all in on "PURPLE HAZE" & "STING" odds have moved up to 25 from 20 to 1. So I'm betting 10K$ total on Sting to Win!" (10K$?!--You're a High Roller!)
"Go in Big or Go Home!" Meadow teases her little brother.
"I hear you Sis--I'm in with you then--10 wins 250K$!!" (Well--No. Not Exactly.)
"No?! Not Exactly?" A.J. questions.
'I'm betting 5K$ on Sting to Win. (Yea?!) Then I'm betting 5K$ for Sting to Win in the First Round at 50 to 1! So 10K$ Wins potentially 375K$!"
"WOE NELLY!--STING Wins in the First Round?! What makes you think that Bing?!"
"I don't think--I know!" (You Know?!--How do you Know That?!)
"I Know that because Stella told me so! (She Did?!)
"Yes!--Maybe she'd tell you that too if you ever came home more often?!" (OK Bing. Now you are the one who can save that shit!)
"Easy A.J.--I was just "Busting your Balls!" Stella told me she is going into the octagon tonight & Blowing Up her Purple Haze opponent in the 1st Round!
She wants to break Rowdy RhondaRousey 16 second 1st Round Knock-out Record in 2014! Stella told me she played patty-cakes with her last opponent to prove she could endure 5 Rounds & was still overlooked to challenge for the Bantum Wt Championship Belt!"
Rowdy Rhonda Rousey vs Alexis Davis 2014:
https://youtu.be/Q6-6Rq944i0?si=haHxCkb3hMudRvU8
"I See Bing!--But if you believe that? Why not go all in with 10K$ for Sting to Win in the 1st?!"
"I'm Hedging my interest! I have no doubt that Stella won't Win at the end. And if the fight goes past the first I will still win 120Ks minus the 5K$ 1st Round bet."
"I follow you! You do sound like you are sorta a High Roller Meadow!" (What are you going to do Anthony?!)
"I think I will take your lead Bing! Thanks for the 1st Round "Skinny" Sis! The way you explained it to me?! I should bet 10K$ to Win & 10K$ to Win 1st Round where 20K$ Potentially Wins: 750K$!
Then A.J.Anoticed that his cousin Bobby was preoccupied standing off from the group of men & their conversation. Approaching him A.J. asked him "Where You at Bobby?!"
Bobby takes a deep sigh & hangs his head just like his late father would do: "I don't know T.--Something is nettling my ass I guess?!" (What is it Big Guy?!)
"Well for One?!" Bobby points down from the overhead suite towards the floor.
"I don't like the idea of my little sister Nica attending this Fight! If Sophia wants to be here?! That's up to her--She's of age to make her own decisions. But.--I don't know what Janice is thinking permitting Dominica to come?!"
"You are a Good Brother Bobby!" A.J. assured him. "I'd assume Janice doesn't really realize the level of violence & frenzy of the fans smelling blood crowding around the cage for more?!"
"Well?!☆She should know before she allows her 12 year old daughter attend. But she will just say I am being over-protective & controlling."
"I am sure she just wants Nica to feel included with her sister & her cousins!--What else is troubling you Bobby?!"
"I feel uncomfortable about being here to enjoy myself while Aunt Barbara & Caitlyn are alone in Bellville without Tommy or one of us there to be on guard!"
A.J. is moved by Bobby's compassion & concerns for their Family! Patting the big man on the back agreeing with him.
"You are Right Bobby!--Let me ease your mind! I will go down & retrieve Nica. I will tell her that I share her big brother's concern for her Aunt & new cousin Caitlyn feelings of being left out. & I will ask Nica to leave with me to keep them company in Bellville."
"You'd do that Anthony?!" Bobby asked.
"Yes!--It will ease both of our minds. I felt the same concerns in both cases. Nica will leave with me--She will do anything I ask her to do for me especially if I bribe her with ice cream! Besides I can watch the fights on the television & be there until you & Tommy return to relieve me."
"You should stay T!--I can go & take Nica with me even if she is kicking & fighting me over it."
"No.--I want you here Bobby. I need you here to be my eyes & ears. Can you do that for me Bobby?!" (YEA. BUT)
"YEA--BUT NOTHING! It's decided!" A.J.motions to Vito to walk out of the suite to inform him of the new change in plans.
The End of
Part 3
. . .
Part 4
(To Be Continued)
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