Countdown

"I have no idea why seven days is so vital to me: no idea what it means or why it's marked on my skin. I've obviously lived a lot more than seven days. The people who have questioned its existence have hypothesized that it's somehow my fate -- my destiny -- but how does that make sense? It became a part of me, and I rarely took notice of it. That is, until one day the word seven had changed to...Six."