THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 5--IX
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
FRANCESCA "FRANNY" SOPRANO
ER / ICU
NEWARK HOSPITAL
IX
Before A.J. & Vito can leave from Franny's hospital room after Meadow & Alle arrived to relieve A.J. they hear a faint voice ask from behind them:
"Hey You Guys?--Where are We?"
"Oh Franny!" The Young Sopranos all rejoiced to hear their little sister speak as they encircled around her hospital bed. Hugging & kissing her cautiously not cause her any discomfort.
"How do you feel Franny?!" Meadow asked sincerely holding her hand.
Besides I'm numb below the waist. I can't feel or move my legs? I have a splitting headache & I'm hungry as Hell!"
DOCTOR HUNTER
NEWARK HOSPITAL
"That's just the local sedative still numbing your lower-half that you were administered in the ER last night. It will wear off eventually. You don't need your legs right now anyway. You need to remain in bed to recover. You lost massive amounts of blood." A voice said entering the room. It was the surgeon who had saved Francesca's life the night before.
"You are a fortunate young lady Francesca." The female doctor said from behind a facemask.
"The Good News is besides saving your life? We were also able to preserve your uterus intact. We managed to finally stop the hermoraging before we had to make that choice of removing it. But we're not exactly out of the woods yet. We need you to remain in bed to rest & recover. We can't have you up moving about & risk the chance of further bleeding ." The doctor firmly instructed her & the others before asking the family members to leave the room & to pull the privacy curtain closed behind them so the doctor could check Franny out.
"Wait.--If anyone ask? I had a miscarriage." Franny insisted as everyone filed out of the hospital room. "I dont want my mother to learn the entire truth." (We understand Franny.) All her siblings agreed to her request.
A.J. shoots a glare towards Meadow. (Don't look at me like that A.J.)
But then when A.J. & Vito left the front hospital lobby for the parking lot to leave they seen the police & paramedics gathered around a dead body covered up w/a white sheet on the dark dry blood-stained sidewalk.
STELLA BREWSTER
NEWARK POLICE
DETECTIVE
"It's your nurse friend. She jumped--She committed suicide sometime overnight." Stella said walking up to their parked car to informed the two Young Soprano brothers. (RHONDA?!)
"CHRIST." A.J. & Vito we're completely caught off guard.
"You drive Vito. I have to make some phone calls." A.J. shakes his head as he digs for his red-pack cigarettes while getting into the front passenger seat.
DOCTOR HUNTER
NEWARK HOSPITAL
The doctor left the hospital room into the hallway where the girls were standing waiting to return to Franny's bedside.
"You must be Alle?--Franny would like to see you inside." The doctor said as she assisted her by reopening the door & stops Meadow by holding up her hand.
"Wait Meadow. Can I have a word with you first. Franny has stated that she's hungrey& that'salways a good sign!"
"How do you know my name doctor?!" Meadow asked.
"I know your name because we were school-mates!" & With that the female lowered her facemask to reveal her identity:
"Oh my fricken god!--Is that you Hunter?!" Meadow gasped as she covered her mouth with both hands laughing.
"OH--MY--GOD! HUNTER! IT IS YOU!" Meadow burst into tears to embrace her long lost friend.
"& You saved my little sister's life last night too?! What a fucking God-sent!"
"I don't believe God had anything to do w/it Meadow. I just happened to be on duty as attending surgeon when I got Buzzed! But I didn't know you had a younger sister?"
"Yea?!--Neither did we know! But my Whore-Dog father had a total of 6 of us Young Sopranos so far--& Counting." Meadow answered half laughing & crying.
"Come on Meadow let's go down to the cafeteria & find Franny something to eat while we chat?!" Hunter suggested taking her near arm in her's in the direction of the elevator.
Meanwhile inside of Franny's hospital room Alle sheepishly entered & slipped past the drawn privacy curtains.
"What's wrong with you Alexandria? Are you Crying? I thought your family doesn't cry?!" Franny pokes at Alle as she holds out her arms to recieve her & embrace.
"You are crying Alle?!" Francesca petted the top of Alle's head.
"You scared the Living Fuck out of us--me Francesca! We/I thought you were going to die!"
"Oh--You knew I wasn't going to die Alle!"
"The Fuck I did?!--A.J. saved your life! He picked you up off the bloody floor at the museum to carry you out to Vito waiting in the car to bring you here!"
"It all sounds quite dramatic!" Franny teased smiling warmly.
FRANCESCA (SPATAFORE) SOPRANO
NEWARK HOSPITAL
"You're not Funny Fran! It was fucking scary! I've never been so frightened in all my life." Alle assures her.
"All your Life?!--Come on Alle! I know what you have been through!"
"Yea?!--What the Fuck ever Fran! The difference is I love you Francesca! You are my Family now! You are everything to me--I'd be lost without you!"
"Ahhh--I know. I love you too Alexandria! No Worries! You can't get rid of me that easy!"
"I will explain it all to you later Alle. I'm feeling tired now. Please stay & lay here with me." Franny wraps her arms tight around her best friend.
A.J. calls Robbie Pontecorvo first & instructs him to drive up to Bellville & retrieve Tommy to meet himvat his Fleet St apartment building.
"How about Bobby?" (He has his own shit to do this morning.) What kind of shit?" (I don't know.) Then there was a short pause.
"Sorry T.--There I go asking questions." Robbie apologized.
"It's alright Rob. You're catching on. You'll figure it out! Just worry about doing your own shit & leave the question asking to me! (Gotcha T!) Now go get Tommy & do as you're told! (Will Do A.J.!)
"Good Man!" (CLICK)
SOFIA "SOFI" BACCALIERI
Then A.J. called the T-Storage Unit Office & his cousin Sophia answered.
"SOFI!--You're up & at it early this morning!"
"Good morning A.J.--Yes. Bobby dropped me off first thing. Nica spent the night sleeping over w/ Caitlyn in Bellville & Supposively Bobby has business to tend to so here I am!"
"Well--I for one am very appreciative of it Sofi! You girls have really bailed me out since Cork & Suzie disappeared!" (It's really no biggie T.)
"Sure it is & I won't forget it! So Franny is in the hospital." (She is? What's the matter w/her?)
"She had a miscarriage & lost alot of blood but it appears she will be OK?! What I need you to do is call the florist & have flowers sent to her hospital room. I want everyone to send her flowers. I want her room filled w/flowers!" (I understand T!)
"Also I want condolence flowers sent to Dr Karen Giles office at the hospital & flowers sent to Melissa Barese's hospital room too!" (Got It Anthony--Anything else?)
"Yes. Have the Palmice Brothers showed up there yet?!" (Yes. They just walked in.)
"Good Deal! Instruct them each to drive a large rental truck over to my Fleet St apartment building--Pronto! Tell them to pull both trucks up to building in the back alley where the service elevator is."
"They're on their way as we speak T!" (Good Girl!)
"Hey T?!" (Yes?)
"What was in that mysterious red paper box?! I'm just curious!"
"Oh--I don't know Sophia. Honestly I forgot all about it! It's still in my car! We will have to investigate it later." (OK T. I was just wondering.)
"Yea. I'm glad you brought it up & reminded me! I have to run Sofie! I'll be back in touch! (CLICK)
A.J. calls his Construction Forman Byron Spatafore:
"Hey Byron! T. Here. I need you to do something for me." (Just Name it Anthony!)
"I need you to meet me at my Fleet St apartment building. " (OK?!)
"What I want you to do is put one of our under-construction business signs out on the front lawn. Then I want you to put orange construction caution tape around the building & across the front doors." (Gotcha Anthony.)
"After the boys empty out the four apartments this morning I want you to go inside & begin striping out all the carpets especially the two bottom apartments first this afternoon. Then you can leave it until Monday. I want all four units to get a fresh coat of white-wash & new vinyl woods floors laid in each unit upstairs & downstairs." (Consider it done A.J.!)
"Good Man!--I knew I could count on you Byron!" (Always T!)
A.J. looks over at Vito as he hangs up his phone.
"What I need you to do V is grab your belongings along with mine from our unit & load into the car to take to the condo. I want you to stay there for the time being until Franny recovers & comes home. I assume w/Rhonda's death the cops will be coming around sniffing around her upstairs residence. Not to mention Geno's vacant apartment." A.J. added.
Roxanne had moved out of her upstairs apartment a week earlier to live & operate their Bed & Breakfast "BOBBI HOUSE" w/Neesha.
"& Before you ask me what am I going to do Vito? I'm going to run across the river to Dumbo & retrieve Omerta for Meadow assuming she will be staying at the condo while Franny remained recovering in the hospital."
"OMERTA"
THE FAMILY CAT
. . .
(To Be Continued)
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