THE YOUNG SOPRANOS (VIOLENCE) PART 5 -- I (CONTINUED)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 5
BY
J. BECK
2024
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(CONTINUED)
PART 5
"SEEING RED"
I
Meadow entered the River-Front Condo on the Upper Bay "Seeing Red". Slamming the door shut yelling:
"WHERE IS MY FUCKING CAT?!-- WHO HAS MY OMERTA?!" But no one was there to answer her.
Meadow had just returned home to NYC's Dumbo District on a nonstop flight from Miami after concluding a four day visit to Key West FL w/ George Pagnilieri.
But when Meadow arrived feeling Jet-Lag & exhausted from traveling home to her upstairs room at the Dumbo Hotel she discovers that no one was there including her cat!
"No Stella No Franny & No "OMERTA" ?! Meadow fell face first onto her made & unslept in bed & began crying warm sorry tears.
She had started her period on the second day of her trip to Key West w/ George. He insisted that he wasn't disappointed but Meadow knew he had to be as disappointed as she was. George being from that older generation that refrained respectfully from having sex w/ a cycling woman.
Meadow was anguished & had anxiety magnified by her surging hormones & Heavy Flow. & The worst part for her was she knew her period would be over the next morning after returning home from the Topical Island Paradise.
Meadow cries herself to sleep & takes a long nap still fully dressed from her trip. Only to wake up drooling from her mouth w/ sweaty tangled & matted hair. Rolling over onto her back & staring aimlessly at the high ceiling when she can hear her belly growling.
So Meadow rolled off the bed to her knees & crawled up the bedside to her feet. She began undressing on her way to the bathroom to shower & leave in search of food & her missing cat.
But when Meadow realizes that there isn't anyone at the riverfront condo including her cat she totally melts down dropping to her knees & starts crying again holding her bowed head & face in her hands.
"I WANT MY OMERTA!"
Meadow whimpered & weeped.
"I want my Omerta." she repeated crying when she laid in the prone-position on the wooden ground floor inside the door beside Franny's white player piano.
"I want my Omerta--Goddamn It!" Meadow slaps the floor w/both hands when she hears a single:
"MEOW"
As Omerta pops up from taking a cat-nap inside of Franny's idle piano.
"OMERTA?--IS THAT YOU? OMERTA?!"
At that moment Omerta leaped down bouncing off the piano keys to land on the floor beside Meadow to welcome her back.
Purring loudly--Kissing & licking the streaming tears away from her flushed face while kneeding her damp shower hair w/his paws & claws.
"OH OMERTA! THERE YOU ARE! MY BIG BOY! DID YOU MISS YOUR MOMMY?"
Meadow asked rolling over onto her back to cradle & kiss her missing cat laughing & crying at the same time. She was an Emotional & Hungry Mess.
At that moment Francesca & Alexandria returned to the condo to find Meadow & Omerta rolling around on the floor. They rushed in when they seen Meadow's car parked outside to welcome her home!
They crawled onto the floor to have a group hug chasing Omerta off as Franny & Alle gave Meadow love telling how badly they all had missed her while she was away.
"Were you crying Meadow?!" Franny asked.
"NO.--YES! I returned home to the Dumbo Hotel & no one was there?!--Not even my Cat!" Meadow admits before spilling her guts all over them:
"WE HAD A TERRIBLE TIME IN KEY WEST!--I STARTED ON THE GODDAMN RAG THE SECOND DAY!" (Ahhh You Poor Dear!)
"He insisted that it didn't manner but it was apparent to both of us that he was as disappointed as I was."
"Why didn't you just have sex anyway?! I would of! & You can't get pregnant. It could get alittle messy but--Whatever?!" Franny & Alle both laugh in agreement! (OH WELL?!)
"OH NO!" Meadow answered. Explaining how that was Taboo for George's Older Generation. Men & Women respectfully reframed from having sex at that time. They would view having such sex as being Dirty & Unclean.
"Young guys today don't care! Pussy is Pussy--if it bleeding or not!" Franny said pointedly.
She didn't understand Meadow's attraction to such an elderly man in his 70's? When she could be getting laid every night by younger studs closer to her own age?!
Francesca realized that she had sex w/ older men herself like "Uncle Jerry" Basale. But he was only in his 50's--He wasn't so Elderly like George! Jerry still had a younger man's stamina & drive for his age.
"Couldnt you still blow him & have anal sex like that instead?!" Alle half suggested in asking?
"SURE YOU COULD!--Anal Sex is the fastest way to any Italian man's heart!" Franny added.
Meadow could only drop her head to answer: "Not Him." (THATS ON HIM THEN!--THATS HIS LOSS--NOT YOUR'S!)
"DON'T CRY MEADOW!" (I'm just hungrey or tired.)
"Hungrey?!--GOOD! SO ARE WE! &There's all kinds of delicious left-overs to microwave!" (Left-Overs?--From Where?)
"From Here!--Your Mother came back while you were away & cooked up a storm w/ Stella & Us! (My Mother? Was Here?)
"Yes. She arrived the day you left & we met her. Then she left earlier this afternoon to return to Florida on the same day again as you returned back home to us?! In Fact Alle & I are just getting back now from seeing her flight off. (Why was she here anyway?)
"She said to attend Jason Parisi's Funeral on Sunday."
"OH--THAT'S JUST FUCKING GREAT! I MISSED JASON'S FUNERAL TOO?--CHRIST ALMIGHTY."
Meadow begins to cry even harder w/her face in her hands. Franny & Alle each grab an arm & lift Meadow up off the floor onto her feet:
"COME ON MEADOW!--YOU NEED TO EAT!"
II
In the Meanwhile that Monday afternoon A.J. Soprano was driving Jason "Geno" Gervasi to attend "Larry-Fuck-Boy's" Public Calling Hours at Hyle Funeral II in Lincoln Park on Marcy St.
When Geno begins bragging to A.J. about how he took a couple guys over to Melissa's house the night before to pay her a personal visit.
Geno wanted to express the deep-felt gratitude he had for her assisting in his speedy recovery enabling him to attend Jake Parisi's private funeral for whom her own dead father was responsible for killing.
But Geno was eventually medically cleared & granted a doctor's release to be discharged from the hospital at the very last minute before Geno was leaving either way with or without it.
Geno was recovering from multiple gun-shot wounds he suffered less then a week prior. Which he recieved in the same drive-by shooting on the freeway that killed Jason Parisi.
& That only minorly injured Compagino merely leaving him w insignificant flesh wounds as the driver being shielded by Geno sitting in the front passenger seat.
They were able to uninvitedly attend amongst the other family & guest earlier Sunday afternoon:
They arrived at the Cemetery Sunday as the church-bells were ringing at 12 o'clock noon. A.J. came pushing Geno in his wheelchair after being discharged from the hospital that morning.
But as they approached closer they were intercepted by Jakes older brother Patrick attempting to turn them away. (This is Private!)
"Get the fuck out of our way Patty!" Geno growled & reached out to shove him away from the wheelchair until A.J. stopped pushing.
Patsi looked up to wave the men off so A.J. & Geno could pass on to the open grave hole awaiting to lower & swallow up Jake's coffin in the present of a small crowd of guest gathered around Father Ozario & Jason's grave-site.
It wasn't so surprising to see Carmine Luppitazzi Jr there up from South Beach to be standing there next to Patsi Parisi because his mother had told him over the phone that he would be attending.
But what A.J. wasn't expecting was to find his mother Carmela there standing w/ Jake's mother Donna Parisi. & Rosalie w/Kelli Aprile.
Coco Walden & Albie Cianflone stood flanking the immediate family members. The only two wise-guys missing were Compagino who wasnt attending his own funeral.
& Albert Barese who wouldn't dare attempt to attend for fear of offending & disrespecting Patsi being old long-time friends before his cousin Larry indirectly ordered Jason's Murder.
After a breif momentary pause Father Ozario wiped his lips to begin the Final Benediction Prayer over Jake's Casket:
“Through
Our Lord Jesus Christ
We commend to Almighty God
Jason Parisi
We therefoe Commit this Body
To the Ground:
Earth to Earth Ashes to Ashes
Dust to Dust;
To
Rest in Perpetual Peace
In the Sure & Certain
Hope of the Resurrection
Of the Dead & the Rapture
Unto
Heaven & Eternal Life
In the
Hereafter."
"Amen”
(Repeated by All)
Father Ozario tosses a handful of dirt he took before beginning his prayer down into the open grave-hole upon Jason's lowered casket.
Once Father stepped away Patsi leads his weeping wife up to the grave's edge allowing her to toss the second handful of dirt down onto their youngest beloved son's coffin.
Then Patsi hands Donna off to Carmela to assist her back to the car as he grabs a handful of dirt to squeeze inside his fist before looking up at A.J. in the eye. & Throwing the dirt down onto A.J.'s black polished dress shoes.
To say that he blamed & held A.J. responsible for his son Jason's death as one would kick dirt on another man's feet. Patsi turned his head to spit as he wiped his mouth w/ a hankerchief following the others leaving for their vehicles.
A.J. & Geno remained to be the last two there waiting until the last shovel of dirt was thrown. & That all of the funeral flowers were laid covering the fresh grave.
III
So Geno continues going into depth boasting to A.J. about his visit to Melissa's house the night before. Whle he was driving them to Lincoln Park enroute to the next funeral that following day for the man who was responsible for killing Jake.
A.J. drove silently listening (& Secretly Recording) Geno's entire admission & graphic descriptions without questioning or commenting.
But then Geno began in about Albert Barese & how He'd be next on his list to pay a visit. A.J. reminds Geno that Albert was off-limits & was under A.J.'s Protection.
"Fuck that T!--Why Protect Him?! He's a Dead Man!" At that sudden moment A.J. locks up the car brakes to bring the vehicle to a stretching halt in the middle of the street.
"NOW YOU LISTEN TO ME GENO--I FUCKING FORBID IT. & IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO ALBERT?! I'M HOLDING YOU PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE!" (BUT T?!)
"DON'T FUCKING BUT ME GENO. THATS THE END OF IT!" A.J. glares over as he resumes driving & digs for a red-pack of cigarettes which is empty when he did find it.
"Goddamn it Geno--Give me a cigarette! We are almost there." A.J. crushes the empty red-pack & throws it out the window.
A.J. Soprano pushes Geno Gervasi in his wheelchair into the Hyle Funeral Home in Lincoln Park to pay their "Last Disrespects" at "Larry-Boy" Barese's Wake.
It was apparent by the lack of cars in the parking lot outside that there wouldn't be many people attending the public calling hours that afternoon.
A.J. pushed Geno into the large Funeral parlor of empty chairs past the guest-book stand at the door which was blank.
Albert Barese stood alone beside his late cousin Larry-Boy's open casket & his cremated Comare Killer's Urn of Ashes. (That's a Nice Touch?!) A.J. can hear Geno mubble to himself.
A.J. scans the room where the few people who were attending stood lining the outside walls of the room.
Jerry Basale from NYC Luppitazzi Crime Family was present w/ his Comare; Vito & Franny's mother Marie Spatafore.
Also Jerry's Body-Guard & Enforcer Raymond D'Abaldo stood w/ Albert "Albie" Cianflone beside Angie Bonpensiero & Francis "Franny" Altieri.
A.J. rolls Geno up to a stop in front of Albert standing alone beside Larry's open casket.
"That COCKSUCKER never looked Better!" Geno remarks peering back at A.J. over his shoulder.
"Where's your Niece Melissa?! Why isn't she here? Isn't this her fucking Father's Wake?!" Geno questioned Albert. (She's Coming.)
Albert holds out his hand to shake when Geno spits in his hand. & Wheels himself away leaving A.J. behind to keep a straight face as Albert smiles awkwardly. Before he takes out a hankerchief to wipe his hand clean of Geno's disrespect.
A.J. steps away when shockingly Patsi Parisi entered the Funeral Parlor & signed his name in the blank guest-book.
The low murmuring of the small crowd became instantly silent as Patsi approaches Larry-Boy's coffin & Albert.
"You would be a dead man Albert--If you weren't under the personal protection of Don Anthony John Soprano Jr!"
Then Patsi pulls out a pistol to point it at Albert before he turns the gun barrel around to shove it into his open mouth & BLOWS his brains out the back of his head in front of everyone present.
But as Patsis's fatally shot body folded to fall before Albert's feet & Larry's casket; He drops the pistol which misfires a second bullet when it struck the hardwood floors which embedded into the woodwork aimlessly hitting beside A.J.'s head standing against the opposite outside wall.
No one reacted except to silently shuffle out & exit to leave the funeral home before the first responders could arrive.
A.J. tells Geno to meet him outside the front door & he would go get the car to leave w/the others.
Although when A.J. pulled up outside the funeral home front door Geno wasn't waiting there for him.
So A.J. returned inside only to find Geno had cornered Albert w/ his gun drawn.
A.J. steps up behind Geno & presses his gun-barrel against the back of Geno's head telling him to "STAND-DOWN GENO!"
"FUCK YOU SOPRANO!--YOU STAND-DOWN YOURSELF--YOU ARENT GOING TO SHOOT ME!" & Geno aims his pointed gun at Albert.
"YOU ARE A DEAD MAN!" were Geno's last words as A.J. reluctantly squeezed his trigger first to kill Geno instantly.
A.J. glares up at Albert who stood frozen staring as A.J. dropped his gun into the floor to walk out without saying a word making haste leaving to the faint sounds of quickly approaching sirens.
A.J. escapes down the street without being seen as the first responders were arriving outside of the empty funeral home.
(CHRIST.)
A.J. drove straightway to Melissa's house & entered the back-door to find her hanging naked by the neck left for dead.
A.J. was wearing black vinyl gloves & he used Melissa's cellphone laying there feet from her lifeless hanging body to call 9-1-1 :
"HELLO--THIS IS 9-1-1. WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY?!--HELLO?!"
Without answering or speaking A.J. set the cellphone down before he left out the same back-door he entered to his idling car.
"GODDAMN YOU GENO."
A.J. slams the top of the steering-wheel as he dropped the gear shift into DRIVE.
. . .
(To Be Continued)
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