The words in bold is lines and dialogue from the show, the words in normal is all mine.

Episode 1

Rayna thinks when she sits at her vanity mirror and try on Deacon´s ring.

It was so tempted to just choose Deacon, to choose perhaps in some way the familiar path, she knows what she gets and knows how satisfied they both would be. Love and be loved by Deacon is what she has done all her life. That´s not their problem, it´s making it last. For him fighting his addictions, for her pushing away the fear and start trusting him again. She has been up all night thinking of it all, over and over.

Even if she still loves Deacon and probably always will, she decided to marry Luke. She did really love Luke. Again she found herself loving two men. Differently kind of love though, but similar to when she married Teddy, while she never stopped loving Deacon. She did force the love for Teddy the first year, but the way he took care of her and Maddie, turned her feelings to real love. Teddy was and did everything he promised before they got married, he lived up to all of it. Her feelings for Deacon never went away, she just suppressed them as hard as she could.

And Luke, well, if Teddy was the opposite of Deacon, Luke is basically Deacon with control of his drinking. Both sexy as hell, love music and play guitar. What is wrong with her? Why can´t she just love one man at the time? Yet again, she is in love with two men. Her heart wants both, her mind tells her who to choose, her body wants the other one.

Being with Luke has turned out to be more public than she like and marrying him will only increase it, but it should die out eventually, wouldn´t it? She know he like the publicity it gets him, but he would tune it down for her, as he knows she isn´t a fan of it, wouldn´t he? She has always kept her private life private and she intends to keep doing that, even if she is marrying megastar Luke Wheeler. The press and media have to stick to music and their careers, not what they wear to bed, what they do on a lazy Sunday afternoon or who is the best cook of them.

Somehow she better find a way to suppress her feelings for Deacon, a better way than she did while married to Teddy, if she wants her marriage to Luke succeed.

Episode 2

Deacon and Maddie talks after they yelled at each other when Deacon was trying to assemble that dresser.

"I´m sorry, sweetie. I´m so sorry. Listen to me. I shouldn´t have told you that I asked your mom to marry me. But I wanted you to know I tried, I tried to do something. That I was fighting for her."

Maddie sniffles. "How could she not have chosen you?"

"I don´t know, sweetie. She had her reasons. We got to respect that. You can´t be mad at your mom. She is only doing what she thinks is the best for her and for you girls. On the plus side, I can´t imagine that Luke is gonna ask me out on his tour now, so... We´ll get some time together to figure it all out."

Maddie sniffles again and Deacon takes her in his arms in a hug. "I wanted it to be you so badly. I wanted us to be a family."

"Me too, sweetie. Me too. I love your mama so much. And you and Daphne. That is my wish, us four together, like a family. I have always thought of you guys as my family long before I know you were my daughter. Everything will be all right."

Episode 3

Deacon and Luke are arguing.

"Pretty sure the stage is that way."

"You mean for my 15-minute set? I don´t get it, man. You force me to be on this tour, then you don´t even let me play my songs? What´s your problem?"

"I think it´s pretty obvious it´s you. I popped you one so you´d shut your mouth, not keep opening it."

"You petty son of a bitch. Look, what I say to my daughter, that´s between her and me, all right? I told her the damn truth, and I´m not ashamed of it."

"Stop poisoning Maddie against me. It will just be harder for her when Rayna and I are married."

"I haven´t done such a thing. She doesn´t like the idea that you are maybe gonna marry her mother."

"What do you mean maybe? It will happen, there is no maybe. She turned down your little proposal, remember? That was a low blow, by the way, proposing on the same day I did. Trying to confuse her, but it didn´t work now, did it? Thank God for that."

"Well, you are not married yet, are you? And me telling Rayna that I love her is just the truth, it´s always been the truth. Her first marriage didn´t stop that and even if you get married, it will not stop being true either. Rayna and I will always be close, our lives will always be intertwined because of Maddie. We have a daughter together, you can´t change that."

"We will see about that."

"If you think that you can do something about it, make her choose between you and her daughters somehow, you don´t know her that well then I say. Same as teddy did, assume things. I will be there for Ray when you screw up. I love her, nothing will change that."

Deacon turned around and left for the stage without another word.

Episode 4

Rayna´s sales pitch to Sadie Stone.

"Are you actually signing with Edgehill?"

"Yeah. Rayna, I love how much you want to sign me, but... I don´t want to be just another one of Rayna Jaymes´ artists. I want to be Rayna Jaymes. And Edgehill can do that for me, the way they did it for you."

"Well, let´s get one thing straight. Edgehill didn´t make me, I made Edgehill. And I also left Edgehill. You want to know why?" Sadie nods her head. "Because Edgehill isn´t the label that it was when I was coming up. Hell, the music business isn´t the same as it was when I was coming up. Back then, you could listen to the radio all day long and hear so many female artists. We had Martina, we had Shania, we had Faith, Jo Dee, Pam, amazing artists. Now you know how many solo female artists there are in the top 40? Two. You know as well as I do, it´s just all big-hat cowboys, and Edgehill is all big-hats cowboys. That´s all Jeff Fordham has signed."

"Okay, well if that´s all true, then why does he want to sign me?"

"Because you´re new and shiny, and you´re a trophy for him to present to his board. I promise you, after that, he will not support you. Jeff is all about numbers and sells, he doesn´t care about you personally, how you want to go with your music. First time I met with him was after my accident, he had taken over as label head from Marshall Evans, who also was new on the job just two years ago. Edgehill isn´t putting their country branch on top priority, with two new label heads in three years, and none of them has a background in music. As I said, first time I met Jeff was after the accident and he was so happy to see me, work with me, etc. He was all for my label and I thought he wasn´t that bad. But that changed pretty fast when he had the nerve and wanted me to put out a greatest hits album, to reap on the attention I got from not got killed in the accident. Seize the opportunity. He even had the cover of the album drawn up by himself."

"Wow, that´s eager of him."

"Yeah, right. A greatest hits album is what you put out when you are done in my world. And I´m not done yet. I had an album that was almost done and I just needed time to finish that, but he didn´t want to wait. It had to be there and then. So from working with me, he went to work against me on every step I took, just because I didn´t do as he wanted. He doesn´t like it when people say no to him, I imagine he is used to people doing as he says, or he is bullying them into it. That will not work on me."

"But he seemed so genuine when he spoke to me, all those things he promised me, where he wanted my music to go."

"I´m sure he meant it as long as you do what he says and wants, but if you start question him, he will turn on you faster then you think. All that I just said, it was on our second meeting. Our first meeting lasted maybe 45 minutes and the second, maybe 15 minutes, so just after 1 hour total of us talking he turned off the charm."

"Now it doesn´t feel so great anymore to sign with Edgehill, working with Jeff sounds kind of awful now. But he said he could make me like you."

"Hey listen, you don´t want to be Rayna Jaymes. You want to be the one and only Sadie Stone, and I believe that I can help you with that. Your fight is my fight. I want you on the radio ´cos that means there´s a place for me on the radio. That means there´s a place for Juliette Barnes on the radio. That means there´s a place for all these women in this town who are just trying to catch a break. Choose Highway 65. Choose me."

"It does sound more and more tempting, I give you that. Even if Jeff hasn´t done anything to me yet, he sure has done enough against you and it would feel nice to give one to him for treating you like that."

"I will always let my artists have control of their own music. A say in what songs and how the albums will sound. You are so talented, girl. You will go far and I really want to be the one to accompany you on the road there. I want to make this journey with you. We will do great together, I can feel it. Choose me."

Episode 5

Rayna and Daphne talks after her little outbreak.

"Sorry I was a brat before. Is that what you want to hear?"

"It´s not what I want to hear. Is that what you feel? Thos whole craziness with the schedule and being apart, it´s been hard on me. You think maybe it has been for you too?"

Daphne nods her head. "I have missed you, Mom. You have been away on tours all my life and now when I´m older it should be easier, but I really missed you. It was different before when we still was a family, everything has changed now. Dad has been more busy now when he is mayor, he isn´t home as much as he was before."

"I know y´all coming here for one day kind of feels like a tease, but... I just wanted to get a chance to see your face. ´Cause my favourite time is when I get to be with you."

"Me too."

"So I´m gonna take advantage of every single second that we get together today. ´Cause no matter how much time we have apart, I don´t love you any less ever."

"Okay. I love you Mom. I wish we could stay longer then just today. We should come out longer, like we did when we were younger."

"I would like that too, but that´s different now also. It was easier to get permission from school to let you miss a couple of days, but now when you are older they think you will miss too much, that it will interfere with your education. What do you say after we´re done with this commercial thing, we go do something fun, like a normal family?"

"It´s a deal."