THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 4--XVII (CONTINUED)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 4--XVII
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
XVII
Little Benny Fazio Jr left his grandparent's house after breakfast to ride his bicycle around the neighborhood block.
Larry Barese had been staking out Jeni Fazio's parent's house for months after her mobster husband's death & she disappeared.
Larry had gotten his break when he seen Jeni dropping Benny Jr off to visit his grandparents. Then Larry followed Jeni back from there to her suburban neighborhood split-level house to learn the whereabouts of her secret residence.
That Monday Larry returned his stake-out of Benny Jr's grandparent's house when he observed the boy leaving alone to ride his bicycle.
Larry drove off to go around the block to intercept Benny Jr riding his bicycle as he curbed to park his car. Putting down the electric passenger car window to call the boy out:
"IS THAT YOU BENNY FAZIO'S JR?" Larry surprise the son of Larry's godson Benny Sr.
"Hi Uncle Larry!" Benny ran up pushing his bike to the car. "Yes! It's Me!"
"I wondered "Bendito"--You are growing so fast & big since I seen you last! But you are still your proud father's handsome son! I'm sure he's smiling down from heaven at you!"
"Yes. My mother says She has to stop feeding me because she's always having to buy new clothes that fit me!" They laugh together.
"Speaking of eating--Did you know yesterday was the National Ice Cream Day?!" (NO?!--I DIDNT KNOW THAT!)
"How about we go grab a quick bite to eat then I will get you some ice cream for desert?!" Larry proposes.
"SURE UNCLE LARRY!-Let me take my bike back to my grandparent's house & tell them." Benny answered.
Larry looks at his wrist-watch & says he only had a small window of time & suggested that Benny leave his bicycle leaning parked against the tree & he would come back there to drop Benny off when they finished.
"OK UNCLE LARRY!" Benny Jr jumps into the backseat & locks the car-door behind him.
Larry peers up to smile back at the boy in the rearview mirror as he starts the car to shift into gear instructing Benny to "Put on your seatbelt young fella--it's the Law!" They both laugh as Larry slowly pulls away from the curb.
"So Uncle Larry--Do you really believe my Dad went to Heaven?!"
Jeni Fazio recieves a phone call from her mother shortly before noon.
"I am running behind Mother but I am on my way there now!" Jeni answered.
"Benny isn't with you Jennifer?!" (What do you Mean Mother?!)
"Well Little Benny has disappeared!" (Disappeared?!)
"Benny left after breakfast to ride his bicycle around the block & didn't return. So your Father drove around looking for him but only found his bike leaning up against a tree beside the sidewalk. So he when up & knocked on the door & the neighborhood lady said she watch Benny leave his bike & got into the backseat of a black car. So we had hoped he was w/you?!"
"No.--I don't have him." Jeni paused before panicking to respond saying that she was sure that he was Fine & simple explanation for it. He was probably near-by inside one of his friends' houses playing a new video games.Then Jeni told her mother that she would leave immediately to come to their house.
But as Jeni hangs up the phone there came a loud knock at her front door.
Swinging the front door open Jeni finds Larry-Boy Barese standing outside her threshold.
"Why do you have to fucking bang so loud on my goddamn door?" She hissed at him like a viper coiling to spring.
"Well--Looking around at such a magnificent house as this? I wanted to assured that I had properly announced myself!" Larry said using hand gestures to literate his sarcasm.
"What do you want Larry? I'm in a Rush--Little Benny has come up missing! If you even gave a Shit?!"
"Oh now Jennifer is that anyway to talk to your late husband's godfather?!--In fact--I do give a Shit! That why I am here!"
"What the fuck do you mean?" Jeni snapped standing in her doorway.
"Well if you'd invite me inside we could discuss privately what I mean." Larry suggested a a bloodthirsty vampire needs an invitation to enter across the threshold.
"State your goddamn business or I am going to call the fucking police!" Jeni refused threatening her unwanted visitor.
"Have It your way Jen. But I would bring the authorities into this. It's between us--you & I. (How So?)
"We both have something that belongs to the other." (You are talking in circles & riddles--I don't have time to play fucking games w/you Larry. My son is missing!"
"EXACTLY!--I HAVE YOUR SON & YOU HAVE MY MONEY!"
"WHAT?--YOU BASTARD. WHAT ARE YOU TELLING ME?"
"I'm telling you I have Little Benny in a safe comfortable location for now? But I'm giving you two days to come up w/my money! I want my 5M$ that Benny had of mine when he got "CLIPPED" & You vanished into thin air. It's no wonder now how you managed to accomplish that now w/the likes of Soprano. I seen his vehicle parked here over night. So don't get any big ideas of dragging the cops I to this or your Lover-Boy Don. Just hand over the money & I will hand you Little Benny back as simple as that."
"I don't have any kind of fucking money like that! You for one should know Benny kept me poor alive & left me poor when he was murdered."
"I do t believe that line of shit for one second girlie! You heard me you have 2 days--48 hours to come up w/the money that belongs to me.
OR--You'll never see you son again!"
"You Son of a Bitch!--I'm not lying to you! Besides--I know you Larry you'd never harm a hair on that boy's head. You love him?!"
"Kids?!--I can take em or leave em-Now Money? That I love especially when it's mine! I may not harm the boy but you'll never see him again! You know goddamn well I will sell him as an orphan overseas to the highest bidder. So Jeni don't foul this up!"
"You will burn in fucking he'll for this Larry!--YOU WILL BURN IN FUCKING HELL!"
Larry hand gestures for her to hold her voice down saying: "The Nieghbors!" As he strolled back to his car.
But stopping & pausing to turn & strike a pose to say: "48 Hours."
Then once he opened his vehicle's driver's side door looking over the vinyl roof of his modest car to say: "Little Benny will be disappointed if he doesn't get to pitch in his first Little League game on Wednesday!--We'll be in Touch!"
Larry gets inside his car to back out of the driveway leaving Jeni standing shocked inside her open doorway.
Comments
Post a Comment