Road to Respect ~ Sopranos

Chapter 19

Joseph

Joey was pissed. Which was saying a lot since it usually took a lot to get him this angry. He drove his car down some old street where Tony used to grow up. Joey bought Livia's old house, making him liable for anything going on there, even if his idiot girlfriend decided to throw a party.

He drove down the street and saw a large group of people in the front yard, drinking and dancing. Joey pulled up to the sidewalk and walked out to see Hunter there. The moment the two saw each other she knew they were all fucked.

"Hey!" Joey yelled. "Shut it down now!" The music was too loud so nobody far away could hear, but a few of the guys near Hunter heard him and started to laugh.

"Who the fuck are you?" One man asked.

"The owner of the house." Joey told him. "I'll give you and your friends a chance to leave now."

"Come on, let's go." Hunter tried to drag the man away, but the man pushed her away.

"Fuck that, white boy here thinks he can just throw us out of a good time?" The man took a long sip of beer and spit it out directly into Joey's face. The man and all of his friends were laughing while Joey wiped his face with his hand. Joey nodded slowly and walked back to his car. "Hey come man, it was a joke. No need to get so- Oh shit!"

Joey fired a Mac 10 in the air. Everyone scattered around except for the man who spit in Joey's face. That man tripped and Joey stood right over him and aimed the gun right in his face. Joey had a sick smile on his face while the man was whimpering. "Hey, come on man, it was just a joke." Joey fired a couple rounds next to the guy's head, making the man scream in fear.

"Was that really necessary?" Joey looked up and saw Talia standing at the doorway, Joey could see a few party goers still inside, staying low and pissing themselves.

"He made it necessary." Joey walked towards the door but stopped to look back at the man. "Get the fuck out of here, now." The man nodded and ran away with his jeans soaking wet. "How did you know this was going on?"

"Alex called, asked for a ride." Talia said.

"Alex is here?" Joey asked in disbelief.

"He didn't know you bought the place." Talia told him.

Joey just grunted and walked into the house. Everyone around the room looked at him in absolute fear. "Meadow Soprano and Alexander LaRocca! Get here right now!" Joey looked around some more and saw vomit and alcohol everywhere. He looked at the tables and saw mountains of beer cans and snacks. But it was the last thing he saw that pissed him off the most. Pills. Little rainbow pills in a baggie. Joey grabbed the bag and turned back to the crowd where Alex and Meadow were now standing up. "For the people who don't know, my name is Joseph LaRocca." He could hear a few people suck in a breath and one girl even started to cry. "And all of you are in my home I just recently bought. I could forgive the breaking in. Your teenagers and needed a place to party. I get it. I can even forgive the beer and the vomit. All of you are pussy's and can't hold your liquor. What I can't forgive though, is the cunt who brought drugs to a party filled with teenagers. In my home. My fucking home!" Joey fired a little into the ceiling making some of them scream.

It was then when the red and blue lights of a cop car pulled up. The house was dead silent which allowed them to hear the officer's footsteps as he walked to the door. "It's open!" Joey called out.

The officer opened the door and slowly walked inside. The officer, Billy, looked at Joey, the gun in his hands, then to the crowd of children, sighed, and then looked back at Joey. "Mr. LaRocca."