This is a new story I thought up, I got the idea from a friend awhile back. It's similar to my fellow writer JustMe 133's story but I promise I'm not trying to steal anything, be sure to check out their stories too! Anyways, please enjoy my Bethan fans!

Prologue

Around the world since the dawn of time, humans have been born with biological clocks plastered onto their arms. Pinpointing to the exact time that they would meet their soul mate, regardless of who it would be. Every human now walked around the world, the thought that someone out there had the exact same time counting down on their arm as well.

End of Prologue

Ethan lifted up his mandatory bracelet that he had been assigned at birth as he stared at the red numbers ticking away on his arm.

"Mom, it says I only have a week!" Ethan groaned out as he began to feel nervous in the pit of his stomach while he sat at the breakfast table.

"Ethan, you know your not suppose to look at your time. It's suppose to be a surprise!" Samantha said as she flipped another pancake onto Ethan's plate. Ethan looked at his mother's arm where the date his father and her had met now glimmered in a lime green color.

"Yea son. Just take it all with ease, it's worth the surprise in the end. It sure was with your mother and me," Ross said as Samantha came up from behind him and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before dishing some scrambled eggs onto his plate. Ethan contorted his face in disgust as he pushed his plate away, his appetite long gone.

"I'm only seventeen, you two didn't meet until you were in college. How's a seventeen year old suppose to handle meeting his life mate?" Ethan asked as he groaned and grabbed his backpack that hung off his chair before he hugged his mother and father before dashing out the door to catch the bus.

"Hey Sarah, what's up?" Ethan asked as he took his seat on the bus and watched his house disappear from view.

"Oh not much, reading a People magazine to catch up on the latest gossip," Sarah said as she skimmed through the magazine pages before settling it down and looking at Ethan.

"What's wrong, you look troubled?" Sarah questioned as she watched Ethan look at her, anxiety clear in his face as he looked down at his black arm band.

"My life mate clock says I have a week left." Ethan whispered, causing Sarah to gasp in shock as he looked at Ethan sternly.

"Ethan, you know your not suppose to look at it! It's like a invisible law of nature!" Sarah whispered back as she brushed some of her dark brown hair behind her ear. Ethan could tell she was genuinely shocked he had even looked at his time.

"Are you telling me you have never even peeked at it?" Ethan asked as he turned to face Sarah, dropping his backpack down to his feet.

"No, not even once. I don't even know what color my life mate time is, but it should be a mix between blue and violet, those were my parent's colors," Sarah said as she smiled to herself, thinking of what exotic color hers would be. Ethan just sighed as he fell back against the seat and rubbed his fingers through his thick brown hair.

"Mine's red, a very vibrant red," Ethan said before he looked around to see if anyone was paying attention before he slid his arm band down to show Sarah the vibrant red numbers ticking away. He watched as her mouth dropped and she traced her fingers over his skin as she looked down at it.

"Wow, that's beautiful," Sarah whispered before Ethan slid his arm band back up and secured it on.

"You know how difficult it is to reach a rag down this band whenever I shower, they make them so tight and secure it's almost impossible to wash," Ethan said in agitation as he sat back against the seat once more and put his backpack in his lap as they pulled up alongside the school.

"Not for someone with dainty fingers," Sarah sang as she giggled and got off the bus alongside Ethan who just glared at her before laughing himself.

"I hear that when it happens, your color is suppose to shine so bright it shines through the arm band. Creating a light show between you and your life mate, we learned that yesterday in class. Sounds like a beautiful thing to me," Sarah said as they walked through the school doors, her eyes drifting off into thought as she walked down the hallway with Ethan.

"I wonder what my life mate's color will be? Anyways, I'll see ya after school Sarah. You still coming over to babysit Jane?" Ethan asked as he began to split away from Sarah who went in the opposite direction.

"Yea, around eight tonight! I'll bring over a movie for us to watch, I pick this time!" Sarah hollered over her shoulder as Ethan walked off towards his locker, the thought that a week from now he would come face to face with his life mate playing in the back of his mind.

There we go! Please review! I've wanted to write this for a long time but never thought I'd be any good at it!