《Music System》Chapter 3

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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

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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.

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? "

" 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

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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.

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.

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