Rayna woke up to the sound of her phone ringing so hard she was sure it was going to explode. The assault on her ears stopped for a moment and she saw she had countless voicemails from the press and various media outlets begging for a comment, exclusives for the wedding, photography rights. Then there were a few missed calls from Bucky, tons of congratulatory texts, and a call from Luke, nothing from Deacon. She decided to call back Luke first and all shoved all the other stuff to the back of her mind.

"Morning babe, I've missed you, I'm sorry I had to run out on you last night, but maybe we could get together for dinner and introduce the kids since all of mine are in town?"

"You know that sounds great but it's Teddy's weekend and I've been taking them from him an awful lot for all these shows and I really don't wanna push him too far this weekend."

"Course, I understand you gotta respect his time, maybe just you and me then?"

"All this is just a lot, this war with Jeff, the album, last night, I got people asking who I'm gonna wear and when and where and a million different questions I have even had a second to think about and I just need to clear my head and get away from it all and take a breath for a moment otherwise I think I'm gonna lose it."

"I know you've been stressed and I guess I didn't really help you out with that, so maybe you and I should just take a jet, get away for the weekend and let things settle down."

"That's real sweet, but your kids just got into town and I don't want to leave them high and dry so you spend your time with them I know how hard it is to get that nowadays. I think I'm just gonna go to this spa and retreat 'bout an hour outside of Nashville, massages, body scrubs, and no business."

"Okay babe, but I'm gonna be missing you like hell, enjoy yourself, I love you."

"Me too."

With that she hung up. She felt guilty, but she it didn't seem fair to say it to him because she wasn't exactly sure if she really meant it in the way you're supposed to mean it when you say it to someone. She called Bucky next because she really needed someone to handle all the business for Highway 65 if she was going to think clearly about the situation.

"Rayna, I've been calling you all morning, the album sales are through the roof, you're already charting number one on iTunes and Will Lexington hasn't even broken the top twenty! But I've getting calls all over town, everyone wants in on the royal country wedding."

"Look Bucky I need you to hold down the fort, push whatever business meetings you can, make whatever decisions have to be made and call Tandy if there's an issue."

"Rayna, you can't just take a break when everything's starting to get crazy, a lot needs to be done, we need to meet artists, promote the album, respond to this media craze."

"Two days, two days, that's all I need, it can all wait until then. I have faith in you."

She hung up before he could answer. She grabbed a bag and quickly packed some clothes and texted Teddy that she was dropping off the girls in the next hour.

"Maddie, Daphne! I need y'all to get up and get you're bags ready we're leaving for your dad's real soon!"

Maddie came storming out of her room and stomped down the stairs.

"Well, someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed, good morning to you too sweetie. I made some breakfast for you and then you gotta get dressed and ready for your dad's."

"There you go again, always dictating my life and making decisions for me."

"Hey, I don't know what this is about but you know it's your dad's weekend and he's excited to see you."

"That's because my time is always split! With you, with daddy, with Deacon, and now I'm supposed to have another dad just because you say so! Luke will never be my dad and I'm not okay with it!"

"Lowe your voice, your sister is upstairs. I know this is all confusing and it's really complicated, but I promise I'm going to think about all this and what's best for you and this family before I make any decisions about our future. Now go on and get your bag together."

She rolled her eyes in a way that takes serious teenage angst to master and went upstairs.

"I love you too!" Rayna shouted to her.

In thirty minutes they were in the car bags packed and running up the driveway to Teddy's door. They hurried inside and went to watch the movie Daphne had managed to get Maddie to agree to on the drive over.

"Y'all put the dvd in, I'll be there in a minute." Teddy called to them and then turned to Rayna and said, "We need to talk." Closing the front door behind him.

"I know what goes on in your relationships is your business but this is more than that now. But you need to seriously consider our daughters here when making this decisions because it's gonna affect them and if they're not okay with it then we're going to have a problem."

"You don't think I know that. You don't think they've been the first ones on my mind. I know this is going to affect them and I am going to do what's best for them like I've always done."

"Yeah, well I don't want them to get hurt in process of everything, no matter which way it goes."

"I know, you're just trying to protect them, that's all. Well, enjoy yourselves."

He smiled back and she walked back to her car. She check her phone and saw a text from Juliette.

Bucky told me you were taking off for the weekend. You know I skipped my walk down the aisle once, too. I'm here if you need to talk.

Yeah, Juliette must be getting a kick out of this. Maybe now that the country music feed was buzzing about her own personal life, it'd move the spotlight away from Juliette's disastrous one. She tossed the phone into the back seat of her the car, the thinking the was going to need to start now.