“Wait, what? Can we backtrack, Bee?” Her friend, Meredith, had a very confused and somehow distraught expression on her face.

“This is my first time hearing this. Are you saying that a boy once asked you to marry him, complete with a ring and all that jazz and you said yes.” Her friend was visibly getting more agitated, “And then…and then…you take it back, say no and return the ring? You crazy girl.”

Smiling serenely to herself, Beezus replied, “Yep. And because of that I have extinguished any hope of me getting married. I guess you can call it karma.”