THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 4 (CONTINUED)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 4
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
"KILLER IS ME"
(ALICE IN CHAINS)
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I
A.J. & Stella returned to Newark NJ as Mr. & Mrs Anthony John Soprano Jr after spending over a week abroad being married in Italy & Honeymooning in the Virgin Islands.
Carmela Meadow Vito & Franny accompanied the newly married couple being unannounced to the public. Vito was the Best Man & Meadow was the Maid of Honor while Franny was the Flower Girl. They were married in a local village church where the entire community attended & celebrated with the newly-weds.
There was a private Marriage Reception held at St Stephen Catholic Church in Newark with a Blessing Ceromony conducted by Father Ozario with a dinner for family & guest that followed with a showering of gifts (& fat envelopes).
The Young Sopranos had been gone for ten blissful days before returning home to the hustle & bustling Metropolitan Life. After a short calm & tranquil retreat between a Mediterranean sea-side villa & vineyard in Italy to the white sand beaches & the blue water shores of the Caribbean Islands.
Returning to the rude reality of their loud & congested home of crowded noise & air pollution.
There was no sea-breeze nor sandy beach solitude. Just the distasteful smells & disturbing noises polluting the concrete & asphalt world of the masses.
"Christ.--I always forget how bad New Jersey smells until I leave & return." A.J. remarks as he lights up a cigarette.
"There's No Place Like Home!" Vito interjected.
"YEA!--NO FUCKING PLACE LIKE IT!" The two brothers half laugh in agreement.
"Well the Honeymoon is over Brother! We've had our fun & now it's time to get back to work! We have a Civil War to Fight & Finish!"
"But--First things First.--We have some loose ends to tie up before we proceed."
This is when A.J. revealed to Vito the Bomb-shell Meadow dropped in his lap while they were in the Caribbean:
"So Meadow informs me that she knows who the shooter was that murdered our father ten years ago!"
& A.J. tells Vito what Meadow had to say.
"I will be goddamned Anthony!" Vito shakes his head as he attempts to wrap his brain around what A.J. told him.
"What are you going to do T.?!" Vito sheepishly questioned.
"I'm going to motherfucking kill him!" A.J. answers calmly with a disgusted grin. "The real question is How?! How am I/We going to kill this piece shit son of a bitch?!--I have thought of a thousand ways of whacking this cock-sucker since Meadow told me. I never wanted to get back to New Jersey so bad in my life--I didn't think our plane would ever land in Newark."
"So?!" Vito prods.
"So?!--I'm still undecided."
"Can I ask--Why is Meadow only telling you/us about this now?!"
"I suppose he has worn out his intial purpose of protecting her & us?!--Not to mention Meadow jealously suspects that he fucked our mother at the casino the night of my birthday party?!"
"I asked her--Why she didn't trust me enough to tell me?! (And?!) And she said she did trust me to understand why she couldn't tell me about it until now."
"That sounds like Meadow." Vito admits shaking his head still having trouble processing the revelation.
"Yes.--But I sorta do understand considering that it's Meadow. & I have to give it to her. She had to convince him to trust her & then she had to trust him to keep it all a secret. But between her offering him bribery & sex--What chance did the greedy fucker stand?!
"She also not only used him to revenge our father's death upon Butch to protect all of our lives--She also enabled me to become Don."
"You're Right A.J.--But it is still unsettling."
"How So V?!--Unsettling that she kept it secret from us or that she is capable of it?!"
"Both--I guess."
"Meadow is our father's daughter perhaps even more then the rest of us are?!" A.J. surmised.
"Dad use to say that Meadow should of been a boy instead of me." (You don't believe that do you?!)
"Oh--I believe he meant it. He was attacking my person. He wasn't saying Meadow was such a Tom-Boy. But that I as his son behaved like the "Pussy" in the Family. He resented me & idolized her. But I suspect it more had to do with him." (How So?!)
"He had a hard time accepting that his first born was a girl & not a son. That made him feel inadequate & unable as a man & a father. I believe he must of felt the same way growing up as a second child in the shadow of Aunt Janice as he treated me. Perpetuating the same dysfunctional perspectives & values he experienced during his childhood growing up in "The Life" as the son of "Johnny-Boy."
"I See--I Think." Vito runs his hand through his hair.
"Perhaps--Meadow is even more dangerous as his first born daughter & not being a son?! She doesn't think like a man but as a woman being a "Femme Fatale" ?!
Meadow's ways are not like a man's ways--Of instant reaction & rushing judgements. She has a measure of restraint & patience that is unpredictable & unexpected which makes her an even more dangerous animal. She is cool calm & calculated before she Drops the Hammer Down!"
"Well--She's Dropped a Dime on his head! I hope you get to him before I do Brother!"
"OH--Take it Easy Little Brother!" A.J. rebukes Vito.
"Now you are the one acting like a Big Pussy!--That's the same way I felt when I found out Uncle June shot our father by accident the crazy fucker claimed. But I rushed in--being consumed by my unharnessed emotions instead of proceeding with a sound mind.
I would hope that you have learnt better by my examples of balancing my Ethos with Logos & Not governed by Emotions. Yes. I can be Triggered to yield to it. But our Pathos is better served in loving others & not being resentful & hateful. I strive to remain objective & avoiding the confusing & distractive pit-falls of being subjective.
When we are subjective we are compromising our wills & subjecting ourselves to situations of others. Where if we remain objective those same situations are subject to our Will not visa versus.
We must always remember that "Nothing's--As it Seems" & We must conduct ourselves accordingly. We can't just fly off the Hammer like our Oldman did. We must avoid making the same mistakes that were made before us if we have any chance in surviving & succeeding in this Life."
Vito remained silent as he listened to A.J. reprimanding him in attempt to Reground him in a solid position of rational reasoning & objective deductions.
"Anyway!" A.J. breaks a short awkward silence. "I'm Hungrey as Fuck!--What say you Brother?!" A.J. pats Vito on the shoulder.
"Sure T!--Name Where?!" Vito swallow hard turning his blushing face away as A.J. reprimand convicted him.
"Let's go to "Little Napoli's"--We can eat good plus I can touch base with George & You can see Venus since we are back!"
Then A.J. puts his arm around Vito's thick neck & hugged him tight & close to kiss him on the forehead & tell him: "I love you Little Brother!"
"Yea.--II love you too T--Now fucking let go of me" The two Brother laugh at each other as Vito pushes A.J. off him.
"Let's Go Fucking Eat!"
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Part 4
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