THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 4--XXII (Continued)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 4--XXII
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
XXII
A.J. & Vito arrived at 8:00AM to Hyle Funeral Home in East Orange NJ after a long night gambling & partying across the Hudson River at Yonker's Casino Hotel north of NYC.
Hymie Hyle greeted the two Young Soprano Brothers at the front lobby doors.
A.J. has required everyone in the DIMeo Crime Family to attend the Wake as well as send flowers & produce an envelope for Robbie Pontecorvo (& his younger sister Alexandria.)
Hymie escorts A.J. & Vito into the Funeral Home Office to occupy & conduct Family Business in private during Calling Hours. Leaving to return pushing a roller service-tray w/a large fresh brewed coffee canister & two big boxes of donuts & pastries.
A.J. sat back in the leather chair behind the desk to light a red-pack cigarette as Vito served him a steamy hot cup of strong black coffee.
A.J. smiles thanking his younger brother exhaling smoke to lift the cup up to smell the rich aroma before slurping & saying:
"Goddamn It Vitoo--I needed this!" A.J. takes a second slurp.
"CHRIST. WHAT A FUCKING NIGHT! That Allegra is one Hell of a lot of Woman! She spoils me! & I don't hsve a care in the fucking world when I'm w/her! I could stay there w/her for days!" A.J. laughed.
"Yea?!--You'd have to survive one night w/her first before you can last for days!" Vito jeered.
"You aren't lying brother--It would take a better man than me!" A.J. lifts his coffee cup up to him in agreement.
"But I needed that short break getting away from Jersey. I feel better in the Head if not in the Body?! How did everybody make out? Anyone a big winner?" A.J. spins the chair around to look out the window w/his back to Vito who answered:
"Everybody won something over-all & They're each eager to return there again soon!" (GOOD!)
"I'd guess the Top Winner was that Mikey Jr Palmice! That kid can sure roll the dice! He had two Monster Rolls in a row!
That Eric guy got all nervous & came out after a pit-boss buzzed him! Mikey had everybody watching & cheering his every roll! Plus we were all crowding around the table to place our bets!
Hell T!--I won 2K$ off his second Monster Roll! Robbie came over to the dead Black-Jack Tables to give us the heads up to jump in on Mikey's next roll. & I'll be goddamned if that boy didn't roll the dice 33 times straight before 7-ing out!"
"He sounds like a real Hustler!" A.J. spins the office chair back around to face Vito.
"Don't you mean a real Gambler T?" Vito asked as he takes A.J.'s empty coffee cup to refill.
"Give me a Second Cup V!--No.--Mikey Jr wasn't gambling. He was hustling the craps table. He is a dice controller.
"Unlike the rest of us amateur gamblers who randomly roll the dice & don't know what the results will be? He knows what he is or isn't rolling before he releases the dice. He isn't just Lucky. Nor is he taking a Chance. He has mastered a skill--a "Dice-Craft" if you will."
"He looks possessed when he gets in the zone! Whether its luck or not he is really superstitious! He's constantly arguing w/Franky telling him not to jinx him!"
"That's all just part of his/their Hustle! They are inseparable! Those two would be lost w/out the other. That's how they have survived & gotten by growing up w/out their murdered father."
At that moment Bobby & Tommy arrived entering the open office door from the hallway to interupt the two brothers conversation.
Franny drove Alle back over to New Jersey from Dumbo after they awoke. She took Alle to her Aunt Belinda's house to prepare for her mother Deanne's Funeral that afternoon.
Franny returned to NYC but drove on to Long Island to pay her mother a visit before she had to return to Dumbo to get ready for the funeral in East Orange. Franny was expected to play the organ during the Wake.
"Franny Dear!" (Mother.)
"Come inside Sweetheart--What a pleasant surprise!" (Whatever.) Marie unlocks the front screen-door to allow her daughter into her "House of Ill-Repute."
"Are you hungrey?!--Can I make you your favorite grilled cheese sandwich?" Marie politely asked.
"Yes.--I should. Now that I am eating for two!"
"Did you say you wanted two sandwiches?!" Marie misheard Franny's answer as she walked into the kitchen.
"NO. I SAID: YES--SINCE IM EATING FOR TWO!" Francesca loudly repeated.
"What do you mean Franny?!" Marie asked returning from the kitchen wiping the perspiration from her face w/a dish-towel she had draped over her shoulder.
"What are you doing Mother?! You are acting like some reprieve pleasant-woman wiping your sweaty face off w/a rag?!--Why don't you turn the goddan air-conditioning on?!" Franny scolded Marie as she went over to the thermostat on the wall.
"CHRIST MOTHER!--ITS ALMOST 80F IN HERE!" Francesca glares at Marie & turn the A/C on & set it for 72F.
"What are you trying to do have a fucking Heat-Stroke?!" Franny questions.
"Franny-Dear please be nice. You don't have to swear at your mother to make your point." Marie answered."I'm trying to preserve energy & save money! Besides I like it on the warmer side."
"Don't feed me that shit! Your cost-cutting measures only means you are cheap & you are self-detrimental." Franny corrects Marie.
"As I was saying Mother: I should eat because I am eating for two.--I am pregnant."
"MOTHER. " -- (Yes Child.)
Kelli Aprile shoots a glare at her widow-mother Rosalie for addressing her as a child being 35 years old.
"Why do you insist on calling me that Mother? I am not a child--I'm a full grown woman!" Kelli rebukes.
"You'll always be my child Kelli dear! It's not meant to offended you Honey. But you are as oversensitive as a child." Rosalie dismisses her daughter's prickliness.
"I have something to tell you Mother." Kelli ignores the dig. (What is it?)
"I'm Pregnant."
"You're What?!" Rosalie snaps her head around. (You heard me!--I'm Knocked-Up!)
"HOW?!--Did your dildo knock you up?! I haven't seen you w/any male since you divorced your dead faggot ex-husband!" Rosalie questioned.
"Mother--I'm being serious here! Why do you have to be so goddamn mean to me?!"
HOW DO YOU KNOW THEN?! You missed your period?" (Yes--I've missed the last two.) Then Kelli tosses two positive pregnancy test onto the dining room table in front of her mother.
Rosalie pokes & pushes the postive plastic test around on the table-top w/her index-finger. (I See.) Rosalie turns to face-off w/ Kelli & crossing her arms.
"SO--Whose the father then?! & Don't tell me you don't know either!" (Oh--I know.)
"OK--WHO?!" (A.J. Soprano)
"OH MY GOD!--Are you Sure?!" (YES.)
"OH KELLI!--THATS FANTASTIC NEWS!" Rosalie reaches out her arms to embrace her daughter.
"So Mother?--What made you change your Tone?!" Kelli asked as Rosalie fawned & preened framing her daughter's rosy glowing face to kiss the top of her head.
"I couldn't be happier & prouder of you dear! You will makeme the grandmother of the Don Anthony John Soprano Jr's baby!" Rosalie said vainly.
"CHRIST MOTHER--YOURE FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE!--YOU MAKE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOURSELF!" Kelli stormed away being discussed w/her mother's response.
"Does anyone else know about this?" (NO-NOBODY BUT YOU!) Kelli answers from the hallway before entering her bedroom to slam the door shut & locked it behind her.
"Well--Eventually you are going to have to once you begin showing that little bump of your's!" Rosalie followed after her daughter.
"You can't hide it from the world!" Rosalie said through the bedroom door as she attempted to it. (YES I CAN!)
"HOW? BY HIDING INSIDE YOUR ROOM? OPEN THIS DOOR THIS SECOND! YOU ARE ACTING LIKE A LITTLE SPOILED CHILD NOW!" Rosalie hits that nerve.
"THE FUCK I CAN'T MOTHER--& SO CAN YOU!" Kelli said swinging her bedroom door open to step up into Rosalie's face.
"I want to keep this secret Mother. Anthony is a married man now. Last thing he needs is a little bastard!"
Rosalie slaps her daughter across the face--"Don't you date speak of my grandchild like that!"
Kelli doesn't blink an eye: "What's the matter Mother?! Is the Truth such a jagged pill for you to swallow? I will wait until I can't hide it & then I will return to Florida for the Winter to give birth in the Spring--W/ or Without You!"
Then Kelli slams the bedroom door closed in her mother's face. "Go Away!"
. . .
(To Be Continued)
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