THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 4--XXX (CONTINUED)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 4--XXX
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
XXX
A.J. left the BBW BING after finishing dinner w/ his imnediate Young Sopranos Crew & having a drink w/a ciger. Leaving Vito Tommy & Bobby behind to enjoy the V.I.P. Entertainment.
Pulling his dress-jacket up over his head to run out the club's back-door to his parked vehicle getting caught out in the rain. Jumping inside while digging for his car-keys A.J. sheds his wet jacket & tugged to loosen his dress-tie. Starting the motor he lit a cigarette to catch his breath.
Running across the parking lot "RUSHED" A.J. intensifying the strong effects of mixing the cocaine & alcohol in spite of eating his steak & lobster dinner.
Then as A.J. dropped the gear shift down into reverse he remembered that he bought 100K$ model train collection from his Aunt Janice earlier that evening.
So A.J. called the Palmice Brothers as he left the club parking lot for Fleet St. to give them work instructions for tomorrow. After asking what they were up to?
Mikey Jr told him they were studying their tutoring lessons before bed. (Good Men!)
Then A.J. told them to tell Compagino to remove them both from the construction crew & inform their foreman Bryne Spatafore.
A.J. continued telling him to check-out a cargo moving truck & a fuel-card from "Susie-Q" & bring it to Bobby Baccalieri's house first thing--9AM Sharp.
Adding that they should make certain to load two bundles of folded cardboard boxes & extra shipping blankets in the back to protect moving the cargo.
A.J. hangs up w/Mikey Jr & called Francesca to inform her that Meadow was leaving tomorrow which she was aware of.
"But" he told Franny that her step-mother (Carmela?!) would be landing in Newark tomorrow afternoon.
"And" A.J. asked politely if she would be available to take Alle over to the airport to meet Carmela's arriving flight for him? (Yea! Sure A.J..--We can do that!)
Then A.J. told Franny to take Carmela to their new riverfront condo beside the golf course & country club in Bayonne.
He told her also that Stella & them could stay there w/Carmela since Meadow was away--If they wanted? He was also going to invited Aunt Barbara & Caitlyn over with Sophia & Nica.
"That all sounds Fantastic A.J.! But you'll have a house full of Soprano Females!"
"The more the better Honey! Besides I can keep an eye on all of you at once! (Laughing) Actually though--I am just grateful that we can all be together like this like a real family after being apart over a decade."
"Ahh A.J.--You do have a "Soft" side?!" (Maybe?!--But let's keep that between you & I!" The two siblings laughed in unison before signing off.
A.J. would phone his wife as he arrived to park off the curb in front of his dark Fleet St apartment building. He repeated to Stella what he told Francesca the call before about his mother returning & staying at their new condo. Stella told her husband that she would happily orchestra it all!
A.J. also suggested that Stella brought Omerta in the cat-carrier instead of leaving in Dumbo all alone while they we all away in Jersey.
A.J. grabbed his wet jacket to cover his head to dash from the car to the front porch door.
A.J. entered the empty apartment building. No Geno No Vito & No girls. Rhonda was working until midnight & A.J. assumed Roxanne & Neesha were both staying at the "BOBBI HOUSE".
II
Meadow sat in her car waiting for a long Red traffic-light at an intersection in the pouring rain w/her windshield wipers working on High. As she stared aimlessly out through the wet distorted windshield she could see a large man wearing a over-coat standing inside an old telephone booth out of the rain under an orange glowing streetlight.
Finally the traffic-light turned Green & Meadow drove through the traffic-less intersection to pull over on the street beside the old telephone booth.
Meadow slowly rolls down the electric passenger door window half-way when the standing man spoke over the loud rainfall as a large solid object concealed by the veil of the dark shadows inside the trashed graffiti covered phone booth asking:
"DO YOU NEED TO MAKE A CALL?!" (NO.)
"GOOD!" & A well-dressed black man step out under the streetlight holding up an unattached telephone reciever for her to see.
"DO YOU NEED A RIDE SOMEWHERE?!" Meadow questioned.
"WHO ME?!"--(YES. YOU.)
The man scratches his head pausing before looking to his right down the empty streets then looking left & right again before saying:
"YEA--SURE. IT WONT BE ANY TROUBLE?!" (NO TROUBLE--COME ON GET IN!) Meadow waves gesturing as she unlocks the front passenger door & raises the electric window.
"Are you really this kind of a woman?!" (No. Not Really.-)
"You aren't afraid as a white woman to help a black male stranger out on such a dark nasty night?"
"No. Why? Should I be?--I just felt sorry for you being caught out in the rain." Besides Meadow knew she had a loaded .38 caliber pistol in her purse that was wedged between her & the driver's side door.
"It's more like I was left standing out in the rain!" (How So?)
"My girlfriend dumped me & kicked me out!" (Why?) Meadow asked trying not to laugh.
"She found out that I had sex w/ her girlfriends." (Girlfriends? as in Plural?!)
"YEA.--PLURAL." (HOW MANY PLURAL?)
"Just Two?!" (OH--IS THAT ALL?! JUST TWO?)
"YEA. JUST TWO! & She called me a Whore?!" (You?--How could She? You only did two of her girlfriends!)
"EXACTLY!" Meadow almost stopped her car right there to let this Loser get back out in the rain. But she thought he was more amusing then being any kind of real threat to her.
"What's your name?" (Cain--Cain James. Whats yours?)
"You can call me Mona." (Is that your real name?)
"Yea.--Sorta. It's my nickname from my "Mona-Lisa Days!" (?!)
"Back ten years ago when I was going to school I use to be a nude studio model for the art college students at the university! It was easy brainless work & it paid great: Like 40$ an hour! But--I've never told anyone else about it until just now & I'm not really sure why I just told you?!" Meadow giggled.
"It's OK. Your secret is safe w/me "Mona!" Cain assured her swallowing hard as his mouth became dry.
"So Cain--Tell Me: How were you "Found Out?!" Meadow asked more out of curiosity then actually being interested.
"All Women are Scandalous!" (ALL?!)
"YES. ALL. You should know that firsthand being a woman yourself?!" (I Should?)
"Yes. You should. Are you going to tell me that in your entire lifetime that NOT one of your girlfriends ever tried to steal your boyfriend or spit you up?!"
Meadow paused thinking before answering his personal question: "Well Cain let's just assume I have had that experience in the past for the sake of this discussion: Can you elaborate upon what you mean by grouping all woman into this scandalous category?!"
"What I am saying it is in a woman's Nature to be jealous & envious of what other women have. If it is to take & have it for themselves or to total destroy & ruin it for the other. Whether it's a punishment or payback? Or it could be to reciprocate more time & attention from their distracted girlfriend who is in a serious relationship?!"
"Yea. I sorta see what you're saying Cain." Meadow admitted as she thought back to her college days & her roommate in the dorm stole her boyfriend away when she was away attending classes or working. Her roommate was back fucking her boyfriend in their dorm-room while she was gone.
"& It isn't like I was the one looking outside our relationship for some "Strange" sex either!" Cain asserted.
It was her girlfriends that came on to me being all touchy flirting around behind my girlfriend's back. She could be in the other room or even in the same room?! Then they started visiting our apartment when they knew my wife was gone to work or out shopping. & They knew her every move because they were all "Besties" & told each other everything."
Meadow laughes out loud. (Do you think it's Funny Mona?!)
"Oh No. NO. Cain I don't think it's Funny--I think you are probably Right in saying that: "All Women are Scandalous!" Now that I've heard you out!" Meadow confessed while continuing to half laugh at this Revelation about her own gender's true "Wild-Woman" Nature. First hand from a man who had fallen prey & was living it out being the Hunted instead of the Hunter.
Meadow arrived at the GPS determined address Cain had given her. She curbed the car on the neighborhood street at the end of a dark house's driveway.
"There you go Cain--You're Home Safe Sound & most importantly: DRY!" Meadow said patting the top of the steering-wheel w/both hands.
"I don't live here--It's just a friend's house. But they don't appear to be home?! (Can you get inside?)
"No. I'll just wait outside until they get back! I have inconvenienced you for long enough & Dumping my problems on you. I can't express my appreciation of your gestures of Kindness you have afforded me Mona! It goes without saying that it has been my Pleasure to meet you as well!" Cain bows his head to grab the front passenger door latch to exit.
"WAIT. It's still raining out there!" (I won't Melt!)
"Well Wait Anyways!" Meadow said as she placed her hand on his near leg.
"You still owe me for the Ride!" Cain silently gives her a questioning look.
"You know "What They Say": "Cash Grass or Ass! Nobody Rides for Free!" Meadow warmly smiles. (You're Serious?!)
"Yes! I'm Serious. Let's go find a hot meal & a clean dry hotel room somewhere!" (Are you Certain?)
"Are you Questioning my Nature or Motives?--You were the one Cain who said "All Women are Scandalous." & I couldn't be more a Woman then the Next!" (OK?!)
"Unless you'd rather just stay here left standing out in the dark & rain for a second time on the same shitty night?!" (OK. Yea. Sure! Wherever You Want?)
"Don't you mean? WHATEVER I WANT Big Boy?!" Meadow flashing a dirty snearing grin w/ a turned upper lip & a wink as she pulled the idling car gear-shift out of Park to Drive to leave.
"HER KIND"
By Anne Sexton
I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil...
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.
https://poetryfoundation.org/poems/42560/her-kind…
MEADOW "MONA" (SOPRANO) WEISS
III
Francesca went to pay the Palmice Brothers a visit after she took & dropped Alle off at her Aunt Belinda's house.
"FRANNY!--What are you doing here?!" Mikey Jr asked being pleasantly surprised.
"Aren't you going to invite me inside out of this rain Michael?!" (OH--YEA. YEA COME IN FRANCESCA!) Mikey opens the screen door & holds it open w/ one out-stretched arm against the buffering wind as she entered stepping over the threshold as a vampire needs an invitation.
"It's terrible outside." Franny comments as she takes off her wet drippy hooded pancho & hands it over to Mikey.
"Are you going to offer me any refreshments or something to drink Michael?!"
"YEA. SURE FRAN!--WHAT DO YOU WANT?! We have water juice soda pop?!" Mikey asked as he hung her pancho up to dry. (Do you have any alcohol?)
"Oh Yea! There's whisky volka & gin." Mikey listed off to her. (How about a Gin-Fizz?)
"You Got It Fran!" Then at that moment Fra KY entered the room asking who was there? Overheating voices talking from the other room. Stopping dead in his tracks shocked to see that it was Francesca.
"FRANKY!" Franny greets him w/her arms out to hug & kiss his blushing cheek.
"What are you doing here Franny?" Franky sheepishly asked looking past her at his older brother mixing her drink w/a questioning look.
"Oh--I just took Alle home to her Aunt's house & since I was in your neighborhood I drove by to finds your lights on. I hope I'm not disturbing or interrupting you boys?!"
"No. No your Not! We were just studying our tutoring lessons to take our GED Test next month before going to bed." Mikey interrupted as he served Francesca her Gin Fizz drink.
"You two boys are sure behaving responsible?!' She compliments while questioning as she sampled her drink.
"We are grateful for everything your brother has done for us & our family! A.J. gave us both a great paying jobs & then challenged us to get our high school diplomas after being "Drop-Outs."
"Are you boys going to offer me a seat?!" Franny asked speaking into her drink as she took a second sip.
They direct her into the living room & followed her pointing out where the bathroom was if she had any cause to know.
Francesca sat down on the leather coach inbetween the two Palmice Brothers w/Mikey Jr on her right side & Franky on her left. Setting her drink down on the coffee table she sat slightly turned to face Franky w/ her back partially to Mikey. While she took Franky's cigarette pack from the front of his pocket t-shirt.
Holding the cigarette up to her mouth Franny twist to peer over her shoulder to ask Mikey for a light. As she reached & arched her spine to reach Mikey's lighter she pressed her bra-less breast against Franky deliberately appearing innocent.
"Where's your little sister & mother? Are they not home?" She inquired as she took a long deep drag of the sweet burning tobacco stick.
"Their both gone. Mom went in early to work overtime before her "Third Trick" shift at Midnight. She won't get home until after we have left for work in the morning. & Rosemary is gone to spend the night at a sleep-over w/ some girlfriends I guess?" Mikey explained while Franky sat staring at Francesca's nipples hardening after brushing up against him.
"So. Do you have anything to party w/?!" (Like What Fran?)
"Like?--What have you got?" Franny asked looking around for an ashtray. Mikey stands up to retrieve one for her when Franky blurts out:
"Just Name it Franny!--Mikey's got whatever you want!" (REALLY?!) Franny flicks her long cigarette ash off into the ashtray as Mikey leaned over handing it out to her. Franny gestures for him to set it down in front of her beside her drink.
Mikey sits back down glaring at his little brother over Francesca: "I wish you'd keep your big fucking mouth shut little brother!"
"FUCK YOU MIKEY!--She asked?! & I was just saying like that!" (YEA?!--Well fuck you too! You are always "Just Saying" Shit!")
"OK BOYS!" Franny laughes placing a hand atop each of their near legs w/the cigerette hanging from her lips asking if they had any "Weed"?!
"Yea. As Franky would say?! We got all the fucking Weed you Want!" Mikey jabbed.
"How about we just smoke a joints first!" She suggested. To which Mikey produces a big zip-lock baggie of green bulging buds w/fine purple hairs & crystals & tossed it to Franky.
"Twist up a couple Franky!" Who catches the baggie w/both hands. (You think we need two to get off?!)
"Just do as I say! We can smoke one & we can give Franny one for the road." (Yea?! If she will be capable of driving home after that stiff drink & this stinky Skunk Cobbage!)
"SKUNK WEED?!" Francesca raises her brow to give Mikey a questioning look over her shoulder. (Yes. It's pretty Good Shit!)
"PRETTY GOOD?!" Franky & Mikey both smile knodding their heads together in agreement. (This Shit will Fuck You Up Fran! & It taste even better!) Franky hads Francesca one to save for later in her purse as he flicks the second over her at Mikey telling him to "Light It Up Broh!"
Mikey lights it & passes it to Franny who took a deep long toke hitting it hard only to explode & cough up all of the expanding smoke in her lungs. (SEE!--TAKE IT EASY AT FIRST FRAN!)
"HOLY SHIT!"--Francesca gasped attempting to catch her breath in a cloud of pungent "SKUNKY" smoke as she pasted the joint to Franky. (You have to sip at this shit like this Franny!)
Franky demonstrated "Sipping at It" pinching the fat smoking hog-leg between his thumb & forefinger.
"How much is it?!" Franny inquired as she intercepted it a second time as Franky attempted to pass it back to Mikey over her.
"Let me try this again! Sipping at it as you say!" Franny smiles hitting the stinky smelling joint.
"DON'T BE A BOGGART FRANNY!" Franky teases her as she coughs up the second hit like the first one. (GODDAMN IT!--This fucking shit is Good!) Franny acknowledges as she passes it back behind her back to Mikey while covering her hacking mouth.
"It cost 200$ an ounce & sells on the street for 75$ a quarter ounce & 10$ for Dime-Bags grams." Mikey gave her the price rundown as he took his second hit to pass it back to Franky. But Francesca snatched it from him to take her last third toke before she passed out after being overcome by the strong effects from mixing alcohol & the strong marijuana.
The two Palmice Brothers snicker between each other before propping a pillow under her head & covering her up w/a blanket to turn off the lights. They left her to sleep while they went into their game room to finish the joint before retiring to bed themselves.
Morning would come soon enough & the knew they had a big day work ahead of them after A.J. called earlier to give them the "Heads-up."
. . .
(To Be Continued)
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