Chapter 4: The Supernatual Alley

I woke up in the middle of a pure black void, the ground felt like nothing but I could still stand on it, what was also surprised me is that my body had returned to its original state, Victor. I assumed this was my mind considering my actions before appearing here, I focused my mind again and thought about my old home office, I opened my eyes to my old office.

It was a little old school with a mahogany desk with leather office chair, bookcases lined the walls, dark wooden floors and a ruby red rug in the middle of the room, and lastly a fireplace in the corner of the room.

I sat in my office chair, it felt very nostalgic, I got up and grabbed one of the books off its shelf I was curious about what was in it because all of these books were unfamiliar to them, especially their titles "My first". The book Vic was holding was called "Miserable Death of All Men", as I flipped through the book I realized it was about who I killed in my previous life, I flipped through more books and realized it was basically my previous life in the book form.

I read through every book laughing and getting depressed at parts of my life but one of the last few books was called "So goes the sad miserable life of Victor", who makes these titles anyway, after I read through all of the books I sat back in my office chair and closed my eyes When I opened them I was in my bed back in reality. It was already morning because sunlight lit the room, luckily was the weekend so I didn't have school so I was free for the day.

I got dressed in a white T-shirt and shorts, today I was going to start my fitness journey, I didn't start my fitness journey as Victor until I was in my late twenties and I hated myself because I didn't start sooner. On the way out saw both my mom and nana who were playing cards with the other housewives in the neighborhood which they usually did on Saturdays, my father was probably out working and the same for my sister, they were both hard workers the only days they were off were Sundays and that's only because we're catholic and go to church.

I walk up to the older women, "Hello young ladies" I said as I massaged one of the women, "Hey Carlo" they all yelled as they looked up from their card game, "Mama imma play outside I'll be back before dinner" I said almost tripping over some shoes at the front door, "Okay hun be safe and don't play in the street, I went outside to our stairwell and slid down the railing and started my routine.

I jogged around the neighborhood to start off and then did push-ups, squats and sit-ups then started running again and just did that over and over again for hours. While jogging I would talk to people around town and help out people who needed help with groceries or across the street building up the image of a charming young man was pretty hard, but it'll be worth it.

One of the many people I came across was Sam Carlo's friend, Sam was an Irish immigrant and worked at his father's little grocerie store, he was currently restocking the apples and I felt a little hungry, "Hey Sammy ya dad got ya restocking apples again" "Yup Carlo this back-breaking work can't finish it's self", "Well would you mind letting take one apple off ya back", "No problem just give me answers on the next test we have, if you do that Carlo we'll call it even" as Sam said that he threw the shiniest and reddest apple towards Carlo which he caught in his mouth and immediately took a bite, "Thenkz, yough thuah beust" I couldn't talk properly thanks to the big apple in my mouth,but I ran off after that just in case Sam Sr. walked out and caught us.

I'd been doing my routine for hours by this point I was in a small back ally that nobody ever visits and you can't see from the street, I needed privacy that I couldn't get even in my own home. I sat in a crossed-legged position on the dirty ally floor I wanted to experiment with my newfound ability which I will call cognizance, I've been brainstorming ways I could use it to my advantage.

Cognizance can be used to store my memories but within them are the skills I've learned throughout my life or lives, I  focused my mind and entered Cognizance. I could hear the crackling of the fireplace as my eyes opened, I had appeared sitting in my chair, unlike last time, but also unlike last time I had a theory. I laid my hands on my desk palms open and closed my eyes, I focused my mind once again I wanted to categorize all of the skills I've learned and put them into one book instead of spread across hundreds of books, when I opened my eyes a book was spread open in my hands.

The book had a black back and cover but with a red hue to it all and the name on the cover was called "Renaissance", I flipped through the book it was kind of like a video game status command, it showed skills like Gun Handling: Level 6 slightly above average, their weren't that many skills but the book was useful nonetheless, what the book also showed were useful memories like mathematical formulas and fighting techniques I could study and I could easily picture all of it within my Cognizance so it was very easy to learn.

I'm very happy with my progress with Cognizance today I gained new abilities that will definitely help me succeed immensely in this life, but I had to get back to reality I wanted to help Vinnie with the diner today fostering a good relationship with him early is in my best interest. I opened my eyes to the same back ally I had sat in, only about 10 minutes had passed in reality while in Cognizance a few hours passed I focused on making Renaissance more than I thought I did, there was a pretty big time difference, but I had another theory I wanted to test out. I focused on the palm of my hand and tried to summon Renaissance out here in the real world, after a minute of pure focus it appeared I jumped in pure excitement at my accomplishment and the number of possibilities I could explore in the future but as soon as I lost focus it disappeared.

I regained my focus again and Renaissance appeared once again, in a nearby puddle I could see my deep brown eyes turn ruby red they even glowed a little and it looked very menacing, I smiled at my hard work but for now I need to run over to Vinnie's.

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