THE YOUNG SOPRANOS PART 5--XXIV (CONTINUED)
THE
YOUNG SOPRANOS
PART 5--XXIV
BY
J. BECK
2024
. . .
(CONTINUED)
AJ SOPRANO & MEADOW
XXIV
"Aren't you going to ask me where I was yesterday?" Meadow coyly asked A.J. as he leaned off the boat to toss a rope loop to dock it. (NO.)
"No?--Why Not? You don't care?!"
"No. I don't care about your personal business Bing. If you want me to know? You'll Tell Me!" A.J. assures her as he leaned back on the boat bench to light a cigarette.
"Well?--I want to tell you!" Meadpw giggles. (OK?)
"I was w/George yesterday." (Alright.)
"& He gave me a special gift!" (What an engagement ring?)
"NO!--I'M NO "GOLD-DIGGER"! & I'm not looking to ever being married now. Besides my child-bearing window is rapidly closing. " (You Never Know?!)
"SHAKE'N HANDS"
(NICKELBACK)
https://youtu.be/AvjJuYWY85k?si=PawcakSgy0C3vpFQ
"Oh--Trust Me A.J.--I Know! But aren't you at least curious what my special gift was?! (Not Really.)
"Damn you Anthony!--Yes you are! He gave me a beautiful diamond necklace & bracelet set w/diamond stud earrings!" (That's Nice Bing!)
"That's Nice Bing?!--Is that all you can say T?!" (What more do you want me to say Sis?)
"I don't know. Nevermind. I just can't wait to wear them out for real!" (For Real?)
"Yea. I had to try it all on for him & myself for that matter! I was absolutely speechless & overwhelmed by the surprise of it all! (So?!)
AJ SOPRANO & MEADOW
"SO?!--He was immediately Turned On & Ravished Me Right There! While I was still wearing all the jewelery! He was Incrediable!" (What for his Age?)
"NO.--George was incredible for any age! It was a time of my life!--Dont Laugh! I'm being serious here Anthony!" (I know you are!) A.J. tries to keep a straight face.
"You think it's Funny? You don't think I can still Knock Em Dead?!"
"OH NO.--I'm sure you still can Meadow!--Just as long as you don't kill him!"
"He says I am his Fountain of Youth!" (He says that?!)
"YES. HE DOES!" (You sound like you have a real "Live Wire" on your hands Sis!)
"Now you're making fun of me because I know you'd never make fun of him?!"
AJ SOPRANO & MEADOW
"No. I'm not making fun of either one of you! I'm happy for the both of you having such fun together like that!"
"Well afterwards I got up to take the jewelery off & get a shower. But when I came back out from the bathroom he had already fell asleep.
So I just got dressed & came home late after you. You're car was parked out there when I got back.
Then suddenly they heard faint music over the loud lapping water sounds slapping up against the docked boat.
"Do you hear that? What is it? Music?" A.J. cocked his head to listen as it grew louder.
"Yes. It sounds like Franny's up! & She must be feeling better after sleeping at home in her own bed!"
Meadow leaped from the boat leaving A.J. sitting there grinning inside at himself as he butted out his cigarette to follow Meadow inside to shit shower & shave before beginning his day.
(THANK GOD!)
A.J. shows up at Raymond Curto Jr's front door in Bayonne across the inlet from his condo when a young female answered the door. She was a dark Raven-type w/black hair & short bangs only wearing a skippy short house-robe.
"You must be Anthony Soprano? My little brother Raymond has told me all about you! Come in--He's in the dining room." She gestured as she closed & locked the door behind him. (& You Are?!)
"My name is Raquel Curta but my friends call me "Rave". I am Raymond's older half-sister from Elizabeth."
"I'M IN HERE SOPRANO!--I CALL HER "TRAMP" MYSELF!" They could hear Raymond calling from the other room. (Yea. The little Bastard refers to me as that along w/ other derogatory names!) Raquel laughs.
"I'M NOT THE BASTARD!--YOU ARE. YOU TRAMP! SHE & HER WHORE MOTHER CLAIMS MY FATHER IS HER'S TOO?! BUT I'M NOT SO SURE?!" They can hear him laughing from the other room.
"Please. You'll have to forgive my little brother Anthony! He really loves me but he has his issues being a HELPLESS CRIPPLE!" (I HEARD THAT!)
"ANTHONY SOPRANO?!--I THOUGHT YOU WROTE ME OFF?!)
"WHY'S THAT RAYMOND?!" A.J. chuckled as he entered the large empty dining room.
"OH--Because you excluded me & You are too fucking good to invite me along w/everybody else to the Casino the other night?!" (You heard about that--Huh?!) A.J. grins.
"You're goddamn right I heard about it! & To be Honest? It Hurt my Feelings!" Then the two men began laughing.
"Raymond. You don't have any feelings!" Raquel interjected as she followed A.J. in carrying a silver tray w/a crystal pitcher of morning Screw-drivers & glasses.
"Shut-up Tramp!--I do too have feelings! Unlike You--You Little Bitch!" (Whatever Raymond?!) Raquel giggled as she poured them both a glass of spiked orange juice.
"I didn't know you had a sister Ray-Ray?!"
"HALF-SISTER!--The Oldman was fucking both her whore mother & mine when they both became pregnant at the same time. So Buffalo-Ray waited to see who would produce a boy first before he married either one of them. Unfortunately I was born the Cripple & not her!"
"That's because of your Mother!"
"I told you to shut up & fucking go away! I don't need you to remind me how worthless my Mother was.
Raquel only showed up after my dumb-ass mother drowned in the pool. She's looking for some kind inheritance money that our father didn't leave her! So now I'm stuck w/her!"
"I'm the only family you have left!" Raquel poked him.
"You can go ahead & fuck her if you want Soprano!--I don't mind! I'm sure she is a lousy fuck like her slut mom!"
"See?!--I told you Anthony. He really does love me!" Raquel preens her little brother's messy bed-hair until he slaps her hand away. (STOP.)
Then Raquel steps up behind A.J. & places her hands on top of his shoulders to whisper in his ear:
"I wouldn't mind it either--If you ever wanted to fuck me!" (GO!) Raymond pointed at her.
"So Anyway?!--What brings you calling A.J.?! It has to be something? Or you wouldn't be wasting your time to come here & darken my door?!"
"OK Raymond--I get it & actually that is the reason I came. I felt bad that you were excluded the other night. (BUT?)
"But I have been counting on you to get this Bondsman Business going which you have done for us!" (AND?)
"And? I now I want you to turn it over to your new Guy--Sharkey" if you believe he can be trusted to that is?!" (WHY?)
"BECAUSE.--Besides I need you by my side more? I have some other Work that only you are capable of accomplishing for us. (OH--Don't Flatter me Soprano!)
"I'm Not Bull-Shitting you Raymond!" (What is it?)
A.J. slides a folded piece of paper w/a list of business establishments. (OK?!--What's This?)
"It's a List." A.J. grins.
"Alright Smart-Ass! I can see that much! What kind of List is it?!"
"It's a "PAZZA" List. All of these motherfuckers are operating here duty-free. I want you to go & personally introduce yourself to each of these establishments for us." (OK?)
"We want 20% Protection Fees from each of them & if they resist? Make it 30% before you start busting the joints up. Don't kill anyone unless it's self-defense of course." (I SEE ANTHONY!) Raymond cracks dirty grin.
"I also want you to take a "Big Bite" intially from them for operating without our permission. (I Follow You T.)
The Last Thing--I need this all done before August 1st! So we can begin collecting at the first of each month. Can you do that for me Raymond?!" Ray stares down at the list. (YEA.--I CAN DO THAT!)
"GOOD MAN!--I knew I could count on you Ray-Ray! There's still another thing?!"
"Another Thing?! CHRIST. I don't see or hear from you forever then you show up here on a Whim & dump all of this extra shit in my lap?! What is it T?!" Raymond smiles.
A.J. laughs.
"I have 20 Kilos of cocaine that I acquired legitimately which I want you to get rid of for us." & A.J. produces a two ounce sampler bag from his dress-jacket to toss at him.
"ME?!--WHAT ABOUT ROBBIE?!" Raymond questioned.
"Don't Worry about Apollo's Business! Just keep this between us & Don't step on his toes if you know what I mean? (I DO. Yonkers belongs to Him.)
I want you to create us a new market w/this shit before I pursue acquiring anymore of it from this source."
"It looks like it's Russian Shit!" Raquel commented as she re-entered the room in passing to open the sliding glass doors that led out to the pool where Raymond's mother Nucci had drowned.
"Mind your own business Tramp!" Raymond Snapped at her.
"I'm just saying by the looks of that packaging! Its good Shit. The Russian Mob smuggles it into the United State directly from Brazil. No Middleman." Raquel finished as she turned her back on them & dropped her skimpy robe to the floor to walk out & skinny-dip in the refreshing pool.
Both men ignored her as they continued their discourse.
"She seems to know what's she's talking about." A.J. acknowledged.
"I told you Soprano--She's a fucking Tramp! She's been around! & I would advise you to wear a goddamn condom if you ever decide to fuck her!" Raymond roared laughing. (I HEARD THAT YOU FUCKING BRAT!)
"SHUT-UP & GO TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT!"
Raymond backs up his wheelchair & drives over her robe on the floor to close the sliding glass doors.
"NOW.--Where were we Anthony?!" Raymond returned to the table to examine the coke.
"I want 50K$ Each. & You can mark it up as high as you please. It's Pure Shit. Vito has already tested it randomly to insure it."
"So basically you want 1M$ Back for all of it?!" (YEP.)
"YEA.--I will take it all T. to do something w/ it! Except now I won't get rid of the Tramp again until its all gone! She can be a big help though. I'll just have to pay her up the nose!" (You do love her!)
"SHUT the Fuck Up Anthony!--I don't want her to figure that out or I'll never live it down!" The two men laughed.
"So what did you have in mind for it?!"
"You have mentioned before that you had family from Elizabeth to Philly?!"
"Yea.--Raquel is from Elizabeth & she has some other bastard half-brothers there. The Nucci's family is from Philly & I have some cousins there as well as in Atlantic City."
"WELL?!--THERE YOU GO BUFFALO-RAY! HEY. I have one more thing for you before I Split!" (THERE'S EVEN MORE?!)
Raymond follows him out the front door to the driveway in his wheelchair where A.J. had backed his parked car up to the garage.
"So who told you that we went to the Casino the other night without you ?--Rob?!" A.J. asked as he opened the car truck lid.
"No. Actually I was suppose to see Robbie last night after his CDL School but the fucker never showed up? I was ready to bust his balls!" (What?! Like you just busted mine in there?!)
"Yea. But probably Worse!--It was CAT." (CATHERINE SACRIMORI?!)
"Yea. She called wanting to know where I was & Why I didn't come w/the rest of you Wise-Guys?! She was afraid we had a fall out or I had grown tired of her company?! I assured her it was neither. I told her I had to work while the rest of you lazy-fuckets were out goofing off!" (She must really like you Raymond?!)
"Yea. They always really like me before they really hate me! Except for Raquel. We have always loved hating each other!"
"LOVE HATE LOVE"
(ALICE IN CHAINS)
https://youtu.be/0ztdtvXmrFc?si=I6004rr4c1GiqcZc
"Ahhh--That's just a sibling thing Ray! Meadow & I are always going around & around over something?! But we'd both kill to protect each other!"
"Yea?--I guess so T. As long as Raquel & I don't kill each other first? I don't know who was happier about Mom drowning? Her or I?" (Did you tell her the Truth?!)
"FUCK NO! THATS JUST BETWEEN US ANTHONY!" (GOOD.)
"SO--HERE YOU ARE BUFFALO-RAY!" A.J. hands Raymond a sizable gun case w/a miniature machine-gun inside.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO WE HAVE HERE?!" (I'll Be Goddamned!)
"BRAND-NEW!--NEVER BEEN USED!" A.J. added. (Son of a Bitch Soprano! This Fucker is Sweet!)
"I figured you'd Like it Ray-Ray!" (FUCK YEA I DO!)
"Hopefully that will make up for excluding you the other night?!"
"It's a great goddamn start! That much is for sure!" Raymond glanced up at A.J. w/a smile ear to ear. (GOOD!)
"You could Apologize to me for hurting my feeling though?!"
"THATS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN!" A.J. slaps Raymond across the back as the two men laughed about it in agreement.
"Have Fun w/your New Toy Ray-Ray! I gotta Run. & Tell your sister it was nice to meet her too!"
"Yea. I'll tell her you said she can "GO TO HELL & Fuck Herself!" Raymond laughed as he waved.
"Alright.--I'll be in Touch."
"OK. --Just don't wait so long next time Fucker!"
A.J. recieves a cellphone call from Vito as he was driving north from Raymond's house in Bayonne:
"Yes Brother?"
"George Pagnilieri died last night in his sleep. Apparently he had a heart-attack."
The Bad News caught A.J. off guard as he paused to process what Vito said. (A.J.?)
"Yea V.--OK. Does Meadow Know?!"
"Yes.--Venus called her first before calling me. She said Meadow was on her way there to Hell's Kitchen now. "
"Alright.--Thanks for the Heads-Up Brother." (Sure T.)
"How about I meet you for lunch at that Beppy's joint? I will call Tommy & invite him to join us & we can talk more there then." (Works for me T.)
. . .
(To Be Continued)
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