THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 4--XXXII (CONTINUED)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 4--XXXII
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
XXXII
Tommy arrived & paid Janice 100K$ cash inside a fat envelope for her late husband Bobby Baccalieri Jr's Model Train Collection filling up her garage that she had been trying to sell for the past decade.
A.J. instructed Tommy to assist the Palmice Brothers to photograph ro ducument & compile an inventory as they boxed & loaded the Toy Trains w minature railroad/tracks building props & landscaping accessories into the moving truck.
"HEY VITO!--HOLD UP! LET ME GIVE YOU A HAND V!" A.J. followed his little brother out from the garage in the direction of the tarped car in the weeds.
"Fuck.--Give me a cigarette! I was running behind this morning & ran off leaving mine behind I guess?!" A.J. continued searching his pockets knowing he wouldn't find his red-pack.
"You need a light too?!" Vito grins holding his out to light the cigarette hanging from A.J.'s mouth.
"HERE! Keep it & have this pack T!" Vito gave him the lighter & held out his open cigarette pack. (That Open Pack?) A.J. gives Vito a questioning look.
"You fucker T!" Vito smiles & laughes as he digs out a new unopened red-pack from another jacket pocket to toss at A.J. "CATCH!"
A.J. is slow to react & bats the cigarette pack up in the air to jungle & secure before dropping as they walked circles around the tapped car.
"What a fucking deal! Janice is so shifty! It's not enough to buy her trains she pawns off all of her junk on me to remove too?! This is Butch's old car he left parked out there before he was Whacked back in the Spring.
Then she tells me this morning to take the old tarped muscle car in the last garage-bay that was never restored. Janice said she asked Little Bobby if he wanted it but he doesn't."
"Why did you buy all those Toy Trains anyway?!" Vito asked.
"I don't really know V?!" (What are you going to do w/them?)
"I have no idea!" A.J. admits half laughing as the two brothers remove the tarp to discover a nice full size sedan benenth it. (HMMM? WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?!)
Vito opens the driver's side door & steps back after releasing a blast of torrid heat from inside the vehicle.
"No Keys." (Look above in the sun-visor or under the floormat?!)
"Found Em!" Vito holds them up as he crawled inside the hot car to see if it would start?
"Just crank it over a couple times first before you pop it off V!" A.J. reached down beside the front seat to grab the lever to open the car trunk to stash the tarp away.
Vito continues attempting to crank it over to start the vehicle until it finally knocked off spitting & sputtering apparently it had stale gasoline & needed a dry-gas treatment as a blooming cloud of blue-gray smoke engulfed them.
A.J. waves the heavy exhaust fumes away as he rolled the tarp up to stuff into the trunk when he discovers six suitcases inside. Then w/out further investigation into the contents of the suitcases. A.J. slams the trunk-lid closed & tossed the wadded tarp into the back-seat before telling Vito the trunk was full of shit.
"VITO!--I've changed my mind! KILL IT! & Get out of there before you fumigate yourself!" A.J. grabs Vito by the shoulder of his dress-jacket o assist him out of the car w/red glassy eyes.
"I changed my mind V! Drag this fucker out of the weeds to haul & lock it up inside Jack Black's old machine shop warehouse down on the waterfront instead of T-Storage Compound.
This car is too good to strip & junk besides the car-plates are still good for another 8 months. Tarp it back up & We can go through it later.
But come back here to retrieve that second car in the garage. Then haul that one to the office warehouse garage in the back far bay.
Hopefully we will have this job buttoned up & finished before you get back in time for lunch?!" (Gotcha T!)
II
Later that afternoon all of the Soprano women & girls (Except for Meadow who had left earlier for Key West FL) met at Newark Airport to meet Carmela at the unloading gate of her arriving flight from Miami FL.
Stella had gone to pick up Barbara & Caitlyn while Franny & Alle retrieved Sophia & Nica.
Janice had bowed out between finalizing the model train collection deal w/ A.J. & Follow-up by leaving to recieve a delivery shipment to the BBW-BING Gentlemen's Club.
Carmela will be overwhelmed being recieved as the Matriarch of their Family. They all brought gifts for her w/candies & flowers.
Stella carried Carmela's luggage out to the car & drove her w/ Barbara & Caitlyn to their new five story riverfront condo beside the golf course in Bayonne NJ w/ Franny & the other girls following behind.
Later that afternoon A.J. went to the Chinese Food Restaurant to pick-up a 100$ box of carry-out take feed all of the hungrey Soprano women (& Girls) waiting to eat at the condo.
& Just as he predictablely assumed he found the FBI Agent Robyn Sanseverino sitting alone in a corner booth near the door. Apparently she was waiting to meet Nucci Curto at their appointed time but must of been unaware of Nucci's untimely death?!
Agent Sanseverino sat w/her back to the door when A.J. entered the restaurant & walked past her w/ his back to her as he approached the front counter to pay & pick-up his boxed carry-out order.
Turning around to leave A.J. drops a large yellow envelope & stepped on it on purpose to leave a dirty flat-smooth shoe-print on it halfway to the door.
A.J. balances the large carry-out box w/one arm as he reaches down to pick up the dirty yellow envelope off the waxed checker-tile floor & asked the FBI Agent as a kind stranger:
"Does this belong to you?!--It has a name across the top: ROBYN SANSEVERINO." A.J. holds it out to her to reluctantly take from his hand as he half concealed his full identity behind the food box he held hiked up in front of his face squatting down. Standing up to leave he used the box block her direct view sitting below him:
"Have a Nice Day!" A.J. politely said as he turns around to push the door open w/his backside once he was past her. A.J. observed her holding the dirty stepped on envelope & hesitated being unsure whether to open it or not.
A.J. loads up his heavy box of Chinese Food into the back seat to avoid eating anything enroute for the sake of safe carry-out practices.
But before he can get into his vehicle he noticed that three black teenagers had cornered a young Asian girl who appeared to have wandered too far away from the Chinatown District around the corner.
A.J. steps up into the middle of the three troublemakers & says:
"THERE YOU ARE!--WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!" & He grabs the Asian girls arm.
"NOW.--GO. Get into the car parked over there!" A.J. pointed & the young female obeyed him when one of the three young thugs says:
"I'm going to cut me a Slice of this "White Bread!" w/the loud"SNAP" & "CLICK" sounds of a spring-loaded switch-blade knife.
To which A.J. reaches inside his dress-jacket to produce a pistol from his vest holster:
"Do you know What I Hate?!--I hate when punk-asses like you three boys show-up bringing knives to a Gun Fight!" A.J. flashes his loaded .357 revolver.
All three of them scattered & ran in different directions when they heard him cock the hammer back. (FUCK!--DONT SHOOT! DONT SHOOT MISTER!)
A.J. returns the gun to his concealed carry holster benenth his jacket & returned to the car. The young Asian lady apologized & thanked A.J. for rescuing her w/ tears in her eyes! She called him her Hero & hugged his near arm sitting closely beside him in the front seat.
A.J. almost forgot what he was suppose to be doing as far as delivering food back to the condo. But he kindly offers her a ride back to Chinatown to insure her safety once he mildly reprimanded her for being alone walking on the streets outside of her safety zone.
Without a second thought A.J. drove her home deep inside Chinatown before he got back on track to deliver the Chinese Food carry-out driving south in the direction of his new condo in Bayonne.
III
After everyone ate to their fill & the leftovers were gathered up. Tommy came to pick up his mother Barbara & Caitlyn to take them back to Bellville. Franny followed them out the door to take Sophia & Nica home before dropping Alle off at her Aunt Belinda's house.
Suddenly the full house was empty when Stella changed into her workout outfit to take an evening jog around the perimeter of the adjoining golf coarse before dusk. Which left A.J. & Carmela behind to go atop the roof-porch & sit alone w/ an open bottle of wine to share overlooking the river & the opposite NYC shoreline.
A.J. lights up a cigerette & offers his mother one who reluctantly glares to take one only to comment: "Oh--That's so Good!--So Smooth!" Carmela exhaled to sip from her wine glass & thank him for such a warm welcome home.
A.J. assures her that she is most welcome & she could see how her return visit home was well recieved by all. Adding that he had absolutely nothing to do w/it.
"Nothing?!" Carmela warmly smiles questioning her son.
"No. Nothing besides getting everyone's Chinese Food Orders & then paying for it all! I would tell you that my wonderful wife Stella was behind it if i had to guess!"
"Ahhh Stella is such a Sweetheart!--Meadow would never go to so much trouble like that for me!"
A.J. ignores his mother spurring comment. Then he explains to Carmela that there were a total of five separate condo units there w/ an elevator & staircases which she should consider one to be her's.
He & Stella would reside on the top-floor to have access to the rooftop patio. Then Meadow & Franny would each have a unit. & Aunt Barbara had agreed to remain in Jersey instead of returning to Brewster NY to move here & be Caitlyn's full-time care-giver.
So that left one unit for Carmela to come & go & stay as long as she pleased anytime she wanted. Carmela asked about Vito?
"He has a place already & to be truthful w/you? I doubt Meadow will move back to Jersey to live here. She said "Thanks but No Thanks." She likes living in Brooklyn I guess?!
So there's always more room for Vito here somewhere if he ever wanted to stay here. Each unit has 3 bedrooms & two bathrooms. That 15 bedrooms & 10 bathrooms in total!"
A.J. refills their wine glasses & lights a second cigarette. (Another One?! So Soon?! Are you a Chain-Smoker A.J.?!)
"I don't know Mother.--But what I do know is? I am a full grown man & I can fucking smoke as goddamn much as I want!" A.J. glares.
"Ohhh A.J. I apologize! I don't want to ruin what we have shared here tonight Anthony!" Carmela takes & cradles her son's strong heavy arm as she leaned up to kiss his near cheek.
"Don't give it a second thought "Cooze.." A.J. remarked taking a large drink of wine. (COOZE?)
"A.J. Why do you insist on addressing your Mother that way?!" Carmela asked resting her head on his shoulder w/a questioning look as she peered up at him.
"It's your nickname isn't it Mother?!--Or should I say your "Pet-name?!"
"I don't know what anyone has told you but it's not true?!"
"What's isn't true Mother?! What people may say? Or that your pet-name isn't Cooze?!"
"Goddamn it Anthony! Neither are True!"
"Well Mother--I have from a Good Source that although I don't know what people may say or not say about you?! I know for a certain fact that your pet-name is "COOZE."
"Please Anthony--Stop calling your mother that! It's not right! It sounds Dirty!"
"That's because it is Dirty!" A.J. smirks.
"What are you saying now?! That I'm Dirty?!" (No Mom. You're the one saying that about yourself in the second person?)
"Who have you been talking to Anthony?! Who has told you these alleged things about me?!" Carmela insisted.
"Nobody told me anything." (Nobody? Well why are you dredging up all of the past like this?)
"Let's just say that a certain person's briefcase came into my procession that is no longer alive which I found to be quite revealing as well as insightful into the past--into all of our past!"
"A.J.!--Have you told anyone else about this?!" Carmela clutched his arm.
"Do you mean Anyone else like my sister Meadow?! (Percisely Meadow!)
"NO.--I haven't spoke of anyone about any of it besides you Mother." (Thank God!) Carmela sighs.
"But seriously--I want to know why you continued to treat the Oldman so badly during your separation after you began fucking Benny--Your "Marquis?!"
Carmela swallow hard before she protested by saying: "Don't Judge Me Anthony!"
"I'm Not Judging you--I'm fucking asking you to tell me the simple goddamn truth. You see Mother--You are half of me as Dad is the second half inside of me. & I want to understand the past so I can begin to understand who I am inside of myself.
I had come to the concussion that I am a sex addict because of who my father is. But it turns out that you were as guilty if not more so of the same offenses you accused & shamed him for?!"
"Oh A.J. dear.--You think about this which you have Good Reason to believe & let us consider it in the proper context." (Context?!) A.J. lights another cigarette which Carmela snatched from him to light himself anther.
"Anthony--You were there. We were living under the same roof together when I kicked your father out. For Good Reason I may add. I had been a loyal & loving wife up until he Screwd out on me first!
Multiple times. Repeatedly. Over & Over. For Years. For God Sake he made four little bastards behind all of our backs! & DONT take & twist what I'm telling you to hold against me like your sister Meadow!
I can sincerely tell you A.J. I love & pray to God each night & morning for you Meadow & all your other siblings now! In Fact I am grateful for them & the knowledge of who each of them are.
As you have said in knowing I am able to understand the true context of our past together as a dysfunctional family & lifestyle.
"Is that what the Mafia is?--A Lifestyle?!"
"What I meant to say about considering the context within its place in the past--in our past together & to answer your question of Why?
I would answer you w/ this question: What was I suppose to do Anthony? What could I have done once I committed adultery w/ Benny A.J.?
Benny was Tony's most loyal soldier & he trusted him more then he should of. There was nothing truth worthy about him only Evil." (EVIL?!)
"YES. EVIL. DEEP. DARK. HARD. BLACK EVIL. He was the Devil "Diablo" incarnate." (Alright?)
"But I asked you what was I going to do back then after our affair began? I couldn't tell your father? & Although I felt Guilty as Hell about it I had to continue to mistreat him. If I hadn't? He would of became suspicious.
& He wouldn't cease until he found it out for himself. So then What? Will Tony kill just Benny?! Or even gone as far as kiling both of us?!" A.J. silently listened as he recorded her entire confession on his cellphone.
"You're probably Right Mom! He would of most definitely Whacked Benny! But I don't think he would of harmed you. He had his own baggage of guilt & remorse to carry around. I think it would all depended upon How he found out about it.
I believe if you would of told him? He'd eventually forgiven you but Benny would have to pay for breaking the rules of doing another made man's wife. & Especially for fucking the boss' wife!"
"Can we quit discussing this now A.J.?! It only drums up that evil that belongs in the past!"
"Yea Mom. For Now." A.J. agrees as he hugs her tightly to kiss her atop the head.(Thank-You Anthony!) Carmela sighed resting her head back upon his shoulder as the evening dew fell shortly before dusk.
During the Meantime; Francesca is driving the Baccalieri Sisters home to their house. & Then dropped Alle off at her Aunt Belinda's house before she drove over to NYC to retrieve extra stay-over clothes. (& Her long tan raincoat). Instead of immediately returning back to the condo in Bayonne. (Franny missed Meadow being gone already.)
. . .
(To Be Continued)
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