Previously -Rayna pulls in Deacon's driveway and goes up to the front door as she knocking she hears him yell "Coming." When he reached the door and opened it Rayna barged in."Sure, come right in." Deacon said with a smile. "How could you? You had no right!" Rayna yelled throwing her arms in the air. " Ray listen, I love you and it kills me seeing you with someone thats not me. I know I f*** up along time ago but we have a daughter together and I want to be a family, I want to be the dad I haven't been for the last 13 years. I just don't want to see you get hurt." Deacon said as he gazed into Rayna's eyes. "Deacon why haven't you told me this before?" "I've tried Ray but as stubborn as you are you didn't want to hear it!" " Deacon I love you I will always love you but I just don't know. When you found out about Maddie you almost killed both of us. What happens down the road if we don't end up staying together? I cant take that risk again, for Maddie and Daphne's sake."
Chapter 2
"I love you Ray," Deacon says as he puts his hand on Rayna's. "Deacon I need to think about this, I am looking out for our daughter and Daphne," Rayna spoke as she got off the couch and headed towards the door. "Ray, wait," Deacon got off the couch and walked towards her, stopped in front of her, grabbed her hips and kissed her. Rayna kissed him back for a quick second until she realized what was happening and pulled away. She didn't say a word, but turned and walked out the door.
When Rayna got to her house she immediatly called Tandy. Tandy answered, "Hey Babe." "I need you to come over right now!" "Okay I'll be there in a half hour. Is everything okay?" Tandy asked. "I'll explain when you get here," Rayna said as she hung up the phone.
Rayna heard the door bell "Coming," she said as she scurried to the door. "Hey what's up I was worried about you so I got over here as fast as I could," Tandy said as they walked towards the kitchen. Rayna got two glasses and poured them some red wine. " Well I need some help," Rayna said. "With?," asked Tandy. "Deacon." "Oh Sweetie what has he done now?" "Well he confronted Luke about me and him being together and told him to break up with me," Rayna explained. " What is wrong with him? I mean he can go out and date who ever he wants but when you get a nice guy he goes and tries to ruin it!" Tandy spoke loudly. "Tandy stop please just listen to what I have to tell you!" Rayna shouted. "Okay," Tandy now spoke softly. "He told me that he loved me and seeing me with someone besides him just kills him inside, and you know what I know exactly how he feels because I go through it everyday. I wake up every morning, roll over and just hope that he is laying next to me. I love him so much. I just want us together, for Maddie," Rayna said in one long breath. "Well honey he did almost kill you and himself when he found out about Maddie," said Tandy. "I know that's why I don't now if I can take that chance again. I just needed to get that off my chest and explain what happened," Rayna said as she paced through the kitchen as a single tear rolled down her cheek. "Sweetheart don't cry. See this is what he does to you, he hurts you." "I don't understand why I keep wasting all these tears on him. That's it!" as Rayna runs to the living room and grabs her notebook "What's it?" Asked Tandy. "Thanks sis you helped a lot. Love you," Rayna said as she scribbled down some words on her notebook. "Glad I could help. I'll call you later to check on you." "Okay," Rayna said as she was still writing.
Later that night Rayna finally finished the song after a bottle of wine and a few more tears. She sat on the couch for hours drinking and crying, trying to figure out what to do about Deacon.
It's 2:15 a.m and Daphne comes down stairs for a glass of water and sees Rayna sitting on the couch crying and drinking wine straight out of the bottle. She immediately runs back upstairs quietly. She reached Maddie's room and jumped on her bed to wake her up. "Maddie wake up mom's downstairs and she crying and drink again!" "Okay go back to bed I'll go talk to her." Maddie says as she climbs out of bed and puts on her glasses.
Maddie walks down the stairs and over to the couch. "Mom are you okay?" She asks. "Ya sweetie I'm fine did I wake you up?" Rayna says as she wipes away the tears running down her cheeks. "No but I think it's time for you to go upstairs to bed. Come on I'll help you." As Maddie helped Rayna off the couch she asks, "are you crying because of Deacon?" Rayna looked at her and nodded. They reached the front of her bedroom door and Rayna kissed Maddie's forehead and went to bed.
The next morning Maddie tells Rayna that she has a stomach ache and doesn't want to go to school. So Rayna calls Tandy and asks if she could keep an eye on Maddie for a couple hours but Maddie insisted that she was old enough to stay by herself. So Rayna made a deal with her, "Okay you can stay here by youself for a couple hours while I take your sister to school and run a couple of errands. Promise me that you will stay home and not leave." "I promise," Maddie said. Rayna kissed her head and walked out the door.
Maddie watched out the window to make sure that Rayna was all the way out of the drive way and she ran up stairs and got dressed. After she got dressed she called a cab and headed towards Deacon's house. The cab stopped in front and Maddie got out. Once she reached the door she knocked three times and Deacon answered. "Hey Maddie, what are you doing here? Come in, shouldn't you be in school?". "Deacon what the hell is wrong with you? Do you have any idea what you have put my mom through? She sits up every night on the couch drinking and crying over you and how much you have hurt her. I know it wasnt all her falt but if I was her I would of kept me away from you too! You know how you reacted and he just didnt want me to get hurt," Maddie said throwing her hands up in the air. Deacon just sat there in shock on where this was all coming from and finally got out a few word's "Maddie sweetheart, Im really sorry but I wanna make it up to you and your mom but I need you help. Will you convince you mom to com to the Bluebird on Thursday and I will try and make every thing better." "What are you going to do?" Asked Maddie. "Im going to write her a song."