Chapter 1 - My "Happy" Bithday

"So this is what it has come down to? A lifetime of anxiety lead me to this moment. But it wasn't worth any of it because this is it; the moment has come anyway. This is where I die and there's nothing you can do about it."

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Shanalee lives in an alternate universe where age is a count down, everyone is born with a number at the back of their neck that determines the age they will die at. Shanalee has anxiety her whole life knowing when she's gonna die after 12 years, she spends her short life stressing with anxiety trying to figure out a way to stop herself from dying.