A/N: This is my first fanfiction, and I haven't read the book in a while.  Please review and tell me if there are any mistakes.  Thanks!  By the way, this fanfiction takes place just before Nat returns.  I can't imitate the way that they talk, so I'm just going to try my best to write something they might have said and take out what they wouldn't say.  All the characters you don't recognize belong to Elizabeth George Speare, not me.

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"Come, Kit!  It is time for the wedding!  If you do not come now, we shall be late!"  Uncle Matthew yelled up the stairs.

Kit rushed down.  She did not want to be late for this wedding.  Finally, Mercy and John would be married, as would Judith and William.  If only someone else could be there...but no.  He had been banished, and if he came back, he would be killed.  All on account of her.

When Kit arrived at the Meeting House where the marriage was to take place, the guests were all assembled, and the procession was about to begin.  The music began to play, and Uncle Matthew walked Judith down the aisle.  He carried in his arms his older daughter, Mercy.

Uncle Matthew gave his daughters away to their husbands-to-be.  The wedding vows were taken as Aunt Rachel began to cry.  Kit herself felt like crying too.  She had come to love her uncle, aunt, and cousins, and knew they felt the same for her.  She wanted to shout with joy that the world was almost at rights, now that Mercy had married John Holbrooke, and Judith had married her beloved William.  But deep down inside, she knew that she was jealous of the fortunes of her two cousins.  She knew that she shouldn't be, but she was.  She wanted Nat, and she could never get him.

Kit was roused by a jubilant cheer from the onlookers, and looked up to see the couples share a kiss.  Jealousy welled up inside her, and she could not help but think that she would never kiss anyone; Nat was her one and only, and he was gone, never to return.  Kit could contain this jealousy no longer.  She surreptitiously crept away from the wedding party and ran as fast as she could to Blackbird Pond, splashing her beautiful blue dress with mud, but she did not care; all she wanted to do was to go somewhere where she could be alone.

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A/N: I know this chapter was really short!  I think they will all be rather short.  I'm sorry! Please R/R!