It's mid June and summer has already set in the Jaymes / Claybourne part of Nashville. Maddie and Daphne are so happy, it's now almost two months off from school and everything feels right in the world for them. Rayna and Deacon have decided to take four weeks off together with them, and the family are truly excited about this. All Rayna and Deacon dream offering busy schedules are time with their girls and just enjoy the lazy days and each other. It has been a rough time for them with Deacon recovering after the transplant and Beverly's death. Finally things seems to be on the right track again, and they don't look back much, just focusing on the now and future.
It's Tuesday afternoon and Rayna are making sure she leaves Highway 65 in a way that will make it as easy as possible for Bucky to come and take over the business for the next weeks. Bucky will be back in town this weekend, after his and Tandy's two weeks vacation in Greece. Ryana are forever thankful to Bucky and the way he's always there for her. As a friend and business partner.
"Ray, are you ready to head out of the office? I'm there in ten." Deacon texted her. "Babe, I'm almost done, meet you outside soon"
She runs over some paperwork, sets and auto response on her email and smiles to herself as she closes her door behind her. She says her goodbye's and happy summer to her co workers and tiptoes outside. The smile already on her face grows wider as she feels the sun warm on her skin. And if possible, her smile grows even wider when she sees Deacon down the road. "Well hey there, pretty lady" Deacon says with the voice that still gives Rayna that tinkling feeling in her stomach. "Babe" Rayna responds as she gets in and leans over to kiss him. A pretty normal nice-to-see-you-again- peck on lips, still both of them smile when they pull away. This is was real love does to you, Rayna believes.
They are on their way to pick up Maddie at her last day of school, and the three of them will drive over to Daphne's school. They have a tradition there, to mark each end of a school year with a show. Daphne, as her mom, sister and Deacon, loves preforming, and she have let them know several times during the last few days exactly how excited she is. She has been talking non stop about this, so Maddie jokes in the car with her parents, that she thinks she already knows all that they are going to see and hear during the show.
As suspected, Rayna have been touched and cried over those sweet kids singing and dancing on stage, much to Deacon and Maddie's amusement. Maddie has sighed and smiled over how hopelessly her mom are when it comes to this. It happens when they see most movies too, she cries like a baby. Daphne sang and a friend of hers played piano along. The crowd gave them the biggest applause. This girl can sing. After the show, Daphne came running towards them, proud as ever. "Did mom see any of my song or did she bawl all the time?" Daphne asked her sister and giggled. "Hey now, what's all this you guys ganging up against me" Rayna said jokingly. The three of them told her how good she did and the little girl was all smiles.
"Let's go home girls. If I remember correctly, someone demanded tacos for dinner tonight?" Deacon looked over at Daphne who seemed very pleased about having her wish come true. Excited they headed home. Four weeks off. Four weeks to enjoy their family.
Tacos are the girls favorite, and they have their routines: Deacon cooks the meat, girls cut the salad and cheese, and setting the table. Rayna is the best when it comes to making the avocado dip and salsa. Nashville weather still shows it best side this evening, so they decide to eat by the pool in the backyard. It's Rayna's favorite spot in the entire house out there. There are big bushes with the seasons gorgeous flowers surrounding it all, and in one corner of the yard there is a big table, which seats up to twelve people. A stone build fireplace on the other side, with a daybed and a couple of relaxing chairs. On the opposite end of the pool, they have four loungers and parasols to use when they want to enjoy the sun. They sit down to eat in these beautiful surroundings, talk about everything and nothing till they are too stuffed to almost sit up straight anymore. "Do we have any dessert?" Deacon asks. Maddie and Rayna both let out an 'gee', as they are still sitting by the table, finishing up the nachos and guacamole, even tho they are all beyond full. "I could eat some chocolate" Daphne says. "Or ice cream. Chocolate chip ice cream!" Deacon and Daphne almost race on their way to the fridge to see whatever sweet they can find.
"Mom, I think my body have gone in to a food coma" Maddie laughs. "I feel you sweetie, lets move over to the daybed" Rayna doesn't care about cleaning the table, she just want to relax and let that lovely vacation feeling where nothing needs to be rushed fill her. They lay there talking when Deacon and Maddie comes back with four smoothies. "It was seconds away from disaster in the kitchen, I'll tell ya'll. We were out of ice cream, people!" Deacon says jokingly while making their way over to the daybed. "Yeah, but we had watermelon, so I made a melon and orange smoothie for us" Daphne follows. "That looks delicious, Daph, didn't think I could eat any more, but now it suddenly seems like I can" Maddie says, smiling to her little sister. They all curl up on the daybed, it's getting a bit chilly, so they pull two blankets over them self, and let the cozy feeling surround them.
Deacon pulls out one of his guitars and plays whatever comes to mind. Maddie loves to hear her Dad play. Sometimes, like at this moment, she almost can't believe how lucky she is. She looks at her little sister, Mom and Dad, and smiles to herself. Incredible lucky, she thinks again. They sit like this for another hour or so. Daphne has already fallen asleep in Rayna's arms, and Maddie can feel she's getting tired too. "I think I need to go to bed guys. "Thank you for tonight, it's been great, could't wished for a better start on our summer" Maddie says. She carefully touch her sisters hair and cheek to wake her up, to follow her upstairs to her room. "Good night girls, love you"
Rayna and Deacon both says, watching their sweet babies walk inside. "They are something, huh" Deacon says moving to sit closer to Rayna. "I'd say they are the very best" Rayna smiles while kissing Deacon on the cheek as he's now moved and sitting next to her. He brings the blanket over them. They talk silently and can hear the doors to both girls open and closing again. Hand in hand, feet tangled in one another, Rayna resting on his shoulder and complete silent are what's surounding them. Sometimes they spend night like this talking till they fall asleep, sometimes they don't get any sleep at all, sometimes they doesn't say anything at all, they are just together. Tonight they talk about what to do the the next week. Stay home, go out to the cabin, fly out to somewhere. Rayna really wants to travel to a beach and get sand all over, but they want the girls to say their opinion before they decide on anything. Deacon moves his nose closer in, to smell Rayna's hair and neck. This is still the sweetest smell he knows. Almost intoxicating to him. "It's this place in France, called Antibes, Sadie went there with her friend a while ago, and she loved it, I'm sure she …" Deacon moved a few strain of hair away from the back of her ear, and placed featherlike kisses behind it. "Hey.. Deacon.. I'm talking about traveling to France.." "Mmmhm, yeah" was the responds he gave. Rayna did like what he was doing, but she was excited to talk about a possible travel too. "I'm sure she could recommend places to go see, restaurants maybe, and we could rent a house instead of staying in a hotel, don't you think?" "Mmmhm" Deacon had by now moved his kisses down the side of her neck, dangerously close to the spot between her neck and collarbones, which he knows oh so well is thé spot. Rayna tries again "I think a house is more… private.. you know" she lets out a small moan, as he trailed kisses along her collarbones, "just us… and.." she realized she kind of lost track of what she was talking about as he kept on with the kisses, moving along her jawline. She moves her hands up and around his neck, and his lips suddenly moves over hers. She runs her hands trough his hair, feeling some familiar feelings run trough her body. What he's doing sends shivers all trough her. Kissing like this, after all those years, can still drive Rayna crazy. Deacon sits up and carefully drags Rayna further down in the daybed, so he now straddles her. He pauses, looks at her with his boyish grin and leans down to kiss her neck again. Rayna already feel her body automatically bow up against his. It amazes her how they still can turn each other on this easily. "Maybe we should go to bed?" Rayna ask between kisses that now are getting more heated. "Nah.. The bedroom are to far away right now" Deacon says. Rayna smiles and has no problem agreeing to that at this point. "Let's try to keep it quiet tho' " Rayna whispers back. Kisses deepening, hands are everywhere, getting so hungry to feel. Deacon slows them down with breaking the kiss to catch their breaths, but still keeping his lips inches away from hers, he starts opening the buttons of Rayna's top. Painfully slow according to her. Rayna slowly runs her fingers under his shirt and brushes them over his lower back. All the buttons on her blouse are now open, and he looks down at her revealed skin. He moves down and leave kisses over her shoulders, moving to her ribs and stomach. She gasps as he does this, and again her body bows up and yearn for him. Deacon shifts up and spreads her legs, so he's placed between them. Rayna looks at him and grabs him back to her by pulling his t-shirt. She kisses him firmly, and at the same time she begin removing his shirt. He helps her and toss it off. Actually, by accident he tosses it over at the table, so a plate and some cutlery make a rambling noise. "Shhhh" Rayna says while silently giggling. Deacon lets out a laugh to. He leans back again, and Rayna has the front row view to this gorgeous man, only wearing his jeans now. She sure enjoys this. Suddenly he has his hans under her back, unhooking the claps, and her bra and blouse are off and gone in just a few movements. Rayna gets goosebumps all over her upper body, a sweet mix between chilly summer breeze and Deacon for doing what only Deacon can do to her. He has gently cupped both sides of her breasts, and switched between kissing and flicking her nipples. This feels ridiculously good, Rayna thinks. Small sounds escaping her mouth confirms that she's not disliking whats going on right now. He keeps his hands at the same spot, but his mouth are traveling further down, and she opens her eyes to take in what his next step will be. She still has her jeans on, they both have. He runs his fingers inside the waistband of her light blue jeans, and starts opening those buttons too. He suddenly seems to be in a hurry, because those jeans are quickly pulled down and off. He let her underwear be. He now lays all his weight on her, and she inhales sharply by the feel of his warm body on hers and his jeans rubbing agains her pelvis. Deacon kisses her sweetly, and Rayna runs her hands over his neck and back. When he slowly starts to move, she could feel him growing hard under his jeans. Her eyes flies open, because this feels a little to good already. She wont let that happen. Not yet. "Ah.." She breathes into his ear. "Wait, babe, you need to stop that" she whispers as Deacon keeps grinding his lower body on top of hers. "You.. This.. Is actually getting me close, and you still have your pants on, Mr" Rayna says breathing heavy already. He looks up and meet her eyes. Their smiles meet too, and again Rayna can't help but blush by how this man can make her feel this way, this easily. Make her almost have an orgasm just by laying his body on top of hers. He listens and stops moving. He's still on top, as she tries to move herself to be on top but he stops her. "You know what.. Don't move" Deacon says while pulling one of the blankets over them so they won't get cold. Again he sits between her legs, but now he slid him self further down, and start kissing her thighs. Slowly. She could barely see him under the blankets, but she could absolutely feel. Kisses are placed on her inner thighs, up to her stomach and down again, moving closer and closer to where they both wanted them to. He takes his time, but slowly starts to slid her underwear down. She helps him by lifting her self up a bit. She feels a warm breath, fairly close now, and again shivers are sent trough her. Breath turns in to soft kisses. Soft kisses in to light brushes with his tongue. Slowly up and down. "If this is your way of stopping up to not getting me closer…" Rayna whispers. "I'm not gonna stop until you are close, babe. I'm not stopping until you can't take anymore" Deacons says from under the blanket. By those words Rayna tosses her had back, and her back bows up and she needs to sit up a bit and rest on her elbows. He keeps kissing, using his mouth, kissing outside, around and slightly inside, and his stubbles feels harsh but good when they brush against her sensitive skin. "Dea.." Is all she manage to say as her heavy breath takes over. She looks down, and catches small glimpse of what he's doing. Her head again tosses back by the image, and her breathing becomes hastier. "God.. Stop! He pauses in that same second. "No, oh, don't stop! He smirks to him self. She can't lay still any longer, and her hips start moving slowly, mirroring the moves of his tongue. "Babe, I'm…" Rayna hardly ever swears, but now it's pretty close. "Fffuu.. I.. Please. Please!" Deacon knows his woman, and he feels her holding back. "Ray" is all he whispers, and she can't control her self any longer, she gives in, tenses and relaxes almost at the same time, as he brings her to her release. She feels her heart beating hard in her chest, and her pulse beating even harder down there. She moans in that way that is one of the sweetest sounds to Deacons ears. She blinks her eyes open, flushed by it all as he comes back up and lay beside her. Rayna lifts one hand to cup his cheek, and gently rub his stubbles, shakes her head and shyly smiles to him. "What..?" Deacon says with amusement. "You treat me way to good, babe" Rayna says happy and kisses him with all her heart. It's passed midnight and they both fall asleep outside on the daybed. Three hours later, Rayna wakes up because it's a bit cold out in the backyard. She thinks about her warm bed inside but she feel like she is too tired to move. Deacon is sleeping next to her. She can also feel she won't be able to fall asleep again out there, the sun will be up soon too. She gently nuzzles into Deacons neck to wake him up and suggest they go inside. Sleepy they lean on the other when they walk inside and up the stairs. Quickly they wash up, brush their teeth, puts on t-shirts and go to bed.
Deacon is the first to wake up the next morning, he lays on his back and can hear someone in the hallway outside their bedroom door. He figure it must be Daphne who walks downstairs to watch some tv before the rest of the family wakes up. It's only 8.15. He looks over at Rayna, still sleeping. He moves over to be closer to her. Rayna shifts to her lay on her back, so she can face him as she feel him move closer to her. "Babe" she says almost still sleeping. "Hey babe" Deacon says back. "What time is it?" "Still early, hon, You can sleep some more" he says, kissing her shoulder. Rayna quickly sits up and before Deacon could even fully open his eyes, she's on top of him. "Or not sleep some more, you can also do this" he says smiling. Rayna leans down to kiss him. "Good morning, babe" she says between a few light kisses. "I believe you had me worn out last night, not being able to return what you did to me" Deacon looks up at her. "I enjoyed last night a lot, hon" Rayna keeps kissing his jawline and down his neck. She brings him up a bit, so she's able to take of his t-shirt. He relaxes down again, closing his eyes as she runs her hands from his chest to his stomach. Deacons hands travels lightly up and down Rayna's thighs as she still sits over him. "What would you like me to do next, babe?" Deacons smile grows wide. "I.. Mmm.. I can think of a few things" He places one hand on the back of her neck to bring her down to whisper something in her ear. She smiles a satisfied smile to herself. "Is that so?" Rayna response in a low, deep voice. "Mmhm" Deacon says again.
Rayna now rests flat on her stomach, trying to even out her breathing. Deacon lays on top, resting on her back. Still inside her while easing his breath too. "Oh my.. That was.." Rayna tries to say something suitable. "It was.. It really was, babe" Deacon can't think of anything that might cover what he feels right now either. "I love you, pretty lady. So much" "I love you too, babe" Deacon place kisses on the back of her neck. "Let's get up and go downstair to make breakfast" "Let's" Rayna says. "It's officially our first day off!"