Saturn didn't know what to do since he was released. He had month long integration period so that he could get used normal life before he starts his job. He also didn't know when his ride would show up, so he was stuck.
Right when he was thinking about if a bus would show up or if he should walk, a pale gold colored beater car showed up. It was Ford Taurus and it belonged to Amelia Emerson, Saturn's mom. When the car pulled up, stopped, and shut down a once pretty blond woman hopped out of the car. She was pale white woman with light blue eyes. Her hair was a rugged looking white blond with rare strands of grey. Despite having gray hairs they seemed to add to her beauty rather than take away from it. She had a thin face that clearly hinted at the fact that she used to be unhealthy and malnourished. Though it was obviously years ago and she had already regained her health. Her body was slightly pump in a plus sized model sort of way. When she exited her car her face had a grin that could light the darkest of rooms, and make someone who lived with the worst of the worst feel a happy emotion.
" Come give mommy a hug. "
Despite the fact that Saturn was twenty four year old adult and was a murderer she didn't care. She just saw him as the little boy that religiously practiced piano. She just wanted a hug from her little baby, and Saturn was happy to oblige. After all he hadn't hugged her since he was fourteen.
He had of course seen her since he was arrested, but nothing could replace the loving embrace of a mother. After they shared a three minute long hug both of them separated and both sat into the car. Saturn kind of wanted to drive, but he had literally no idea how.
" How has your job at the hair salon been? "
" Pretty good, you remember how in the movies there would always be a gay guy right? " Saturn nodded his head.
" Well guess what, it's fucking true. He is literally the definition of flaming gay, he is straight from a movie. "
" What's his name? Don't tell me it Stephan or something. "
Amelia looked at Saturn as though he was a psychic. Saturn stared back until he realized why she was surprised.
" You are, not, serious, literally you couldn't flame more than that. Does he have one of the wavy Mohawks to. "
Amelia just blurted out with crazy laughter. Saturn joined in, not that he necessarily found the situation funny, he was just happy to be with someone who he could show real emotion to. He was happy to once again experience the love of a family.
The mother and son drove along the lonely stretch of tarmac road. Not even caring about the desolation, instead they just enjoyed of the completion of their family.
Saturn and his mom happily drove along the
long stretch of road towards the city. The
prison was situated near the state of Virginia,
right in an area between the state and it's
neighbor, West Virginia.
( Keep in mind I will
not be using real cities and my geography is
not very good, so don't expect the Earth in
this novel to be parallel to out Earth. )
Amelia had a pretty decent house the
was in the midst of the woods right in between
both of the states. The house was in the
perfect spot where she didn't have any
neighbors within walking distance, but she
could easily reach the city for groceries and
work. It was a three hour job from the prison
to Amelia's house. Though the two felt
that the job was only three minutes, neither of
them had had as much fun in years.
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Amelia's house was an old house,
something that a house historian might want to
live in. It was a long one story house that was
probably around seventy feet long and twenty
feet wide. The fact that Amelia could
actually afford the house astounded Saturn.
The yard surrounding the house was protected
by a tall wooden fence. The fenced in yard had
thousands of bluish green grass, one could tell
just by looking at it that the grass would be
extremely comfortable to lay on.
Once the stepped into the house Amelia
gave him a quick rundown of the house. She
showed him the kitchen the two bathrooms, one
for each of them. She showed him her bedroom,
his bedroom, and the guest bedroom. After that
she showed him the backroom, the pantry, the
dining and living room as well as the
relaxation room as she called it. The entire
house was sparsely decorated with the only real
decoration being pictures of Saturn and some
other family members who Saturn had never
met.
Once she showed him everything the two sat down
in the relaxation room. The relaxation room was
a small room fitted with to lounge chairs and a
mini fridge stocked with alcohol. The room had
a wall made entirely of glass that over looked
a pond and a tree. It was a beautiful and
simple sight.
" So mom, what do you want to do now? "
This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.
" Hhmmm, ooo I have an idea! "
After that she jumped up and ran to a closet, Saturn followed after her, he was amused by
her childish antics, something he remembered from his childhood. She pulled a long wooden
box out of the closet, it seemed to be some
very pretty dark oak. The box was only around
five inches thick and was four and a half feet
long. Amelia handed him the box like a
middle school girl handing her crush chocolate
on Valentine's Day.
" Here open it. "
Saturn sat the box down on the ground and
opened it up. Inside was a beautiful eight
string guitar made of two dark colored woods, Saturn recognized one of them as Toon Wood was
he knew was extremely expensive. The other one
looked to be similar to pine with a straight
grain that extended from end to end. At the top
of the guitar near the tuning pegs is dark red
epoxy inlay in beautifully detailed cursive,
the word was a name, the name was, Dante.
Likely the name of the company or person who
made the guitar.
Saturn's first reaction to the piece of art
was his eye's widening. And then he rubbed the
guitars body up and down. Then he pulled the
guitar out sat down and held it in a playing
position. After that he put in the box and
gave his mother a bone crushing hug, apparently
his ten years in prison didn't ruin all of his
childhood innocence.
Despite the pain from her son's bear hug Amelia smiled widely.
" Mom how were you able to afford it there's no
way it could of been cheap. "
" I have been taking ten to twenty dollars from
every paycheck since I've gotten a job. After
seven years I saved up $7,820. The guitar was
custom made by a local Luthier in town. He is a
kind old man and gave me an amazing deal for
the guitar. He only charged me seven grand.
( I have no idea if that's an accurate or fair price. )
After that Saturn closed and locked the the
guitar box with the guitar in it, after that he
and his mom went back to the relaxation room.
Once he sat down Saturn pulled out his
guitar and sat in the most comfortable
position.
Despite never learning how to play guitar the
instrument felt extremely comfortable in his
hands. Saturn even felt that if he wanted he
could shred something fierce, but he didn't.
Instead he played different notes along the
neck of the guitar. Sometimes he would try
tuning to see what sounded best.
After watching him for ten minutes Amelia got up and started to cook dinner, she
was making grilled peanut chicken and white
rice. After an hour Saturn decided to
finally play his first coherent piece of music.
He played something he had never heard before.
If his last life had been there he would have
realized that the song he was playing was ( Smoke on the Water ) by Deep Purple.
His mom walked in right at that moment with an
incredulous look on her face.
" Son what song is that, I have never heard it
before. "
" Me either mom it just came to my head. "
" Seems like my talented little boy still has it. "
Saturn didn't mind his mom treating him like
a child, instead he was kind of happy about it.
" Well come on baby dinner in ready, make sure
you wash your hands. "
" Alright mom. "
After that Saturn boxed up his guitar and
put it in his room and then he washed his
hands, after that the two of them participated
in a joyous dinner together. Both of them
forgetting about Guy somehow creating a
new song so easily.
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It wasn't until Saturn was in his room
playing with his guitar again that he
remembered him somehow creating a new song. It
was the second time he had done such a thing,
the first time being the whistle tune while in
prison.
" System why is it I am creating so many new songs. "
{ It isn't actually you creating new songs,
it's actually memories from your past life
bleeding through. }
" Well why is that happening, and is it possible for me to unlock my complete memories? "
{ You are having memories bleed through because I was introduced. It should stop within a year or so. And yes if you use Music Points you can buy memories from one of your past lives from the store. It'll only cost a hundred thousand points or so. }
" 100,000! "
" Son are you okay? "
" Yeah mom, I was just reading some news on the computer and got surprised. "
Amelia stuck her head into his room and saw that he was indeed on a local news website.
" Yeah the world is crazy compared to ten years ago. "
Saturn nodded his head. " Yes it has gotten crazy. "
After that Saturn waited for his mom to leave before he whisper yelled. " 100,000! "
{ Oh it shouldn't take that long. Look at your points. }
Music Points - 10,000
When he looked at his points Saturn realized he had considerably more points than he did after he left prison. When he saw that he decided to perform some tests. He knew that by whistling or humming or tapping rhythmically he could gain 1 point every two minutes. He wanted to see how many points he could get per minute while playing music.
So he pulled out his guitar and started to play ( Smoke on the Water ) for five minutes straight. He'd had 10,000 points from his month of whistling whenever he could. He would have a few hundred more but he spent a few hundred points on webnovels and other niceties. Saturn
noticed that his points had increased by fifty points. This meant that one minute of playing an instrument gave ten points per minute.
Saturn was happily surprised by the increase of points, he could gain 14,440 points per day if he played every minute a day. He of course couldn't do that, his fingers would likely be impossible to move after two hours or so of near constant playing, at best. That meant he would probably get around 1,200 points per day. So he could probably get around 37,000 points in the month long break he had before his job.
Once he did all that math, something Saturn wasn't good at or enjoyed doing, he lied down on his bed. He decided for the month or so break he would take it easy since he would probably gain tons of points once he started his job. He would be playing piano for hours per day after all.
After he decided that he went to sleep pretty quickly. After all it had been years since he hadn't had to worry about being murdered in his sleep. Or since he had been on something so comfortable. He went to sleep with a smile on his face that night.
What he hadn't known was that his mom had watched him go to sleep. Soon after she left she lied on her bed and also went to sleep with an equally big smile.