Friday afternoon, Rayna and Tandy were in the kitchen. Tandy sat next to Rayna on the stool pulled up to the counter at Rayna's house, labeling envelope after envelope. "You know I can't wait until our business takes off so we can hire people to do this for us." Tandy said after licking the 80th envelope. "Now that would be too easy." Rayna smirked.

"I couldn't help but notice Luke the Charmer Wheeler wasn't on the list of people to invite. Did something happen?" Rayna shrugged as she sealed another envelope. "He works for Edgehill. I don't think it would be a very good idea to invite Edgehill artists to a kickoff party for my new label." Tandy nodded unconvinced, giving Rayna a look. Rayna tried her best to ignore it by continuing to keep busy labeling the envelopes.

Tandy grabbed another envelope to seal and did a double take, looking from the envelope to Rayna then back again. "I see Deacon made the list. He used to work for Edgehill." Rayna knew her sister was pumping her for information. Rayna tried to keep herself in check. The mention of his name made her want to giggle but she bit her lip to contain herself. She shrugged it off as if it wasn't a big deal. "Well he is Scarlett's Uncle."

Rayna smiled, so proud of herself for finding a good excuse to invite him. Thank God for Scarlett she thought to herself.

Tandy nudged Rayna out of her thoughts. "Hey speaking of Scarlett, she's still your only artist."

"I know Tandy, I'm working on it." Rayna breathed a sigh a relief when the girls walked through the door from school. " Hey girls!" Rayna said changing the subject. "Hey Mom!" Daphne said picking up one of the invites. "What's all this for?" Daphne asked curiously. Rayna grabbed the invite out of Daphne's hand, shooing her away from the counter. "Hey, hey this is Aunt Tandy and Mom's work space right now."

Daphne rolled her eyes. "At the kitchen counter? What about when we have to eat?" Rayna was about to answer her youngest daughter when Maddie spoke up. "We're not eating here tonight. Mom and I are going to dinner with Deacon." Tandy nearly fell off her stool as she swirled it around. "Dinner with Deacon huh?"

Rayna shot Tandy a look. "I want to go to dinner with Deacon!" Daphne said as she threw her backpack down on the chair in the other room. "You're going to your dads, Sweetie and Maddie I'll be dropping you off at the restaurant." Rayna smirked at Tandy. "You're coming too right?" Maddie asked her mother. "No, you and Deacon go and have fun." Maddie sighed. "But Mom!" Rayna smiled. "I think it'd mean a lot to him if it were just the two of you." Maddie rolled her eyes and stomped upstairs. Daphne tried to grab another invite off the counter when Tandy gave her a look. "I never get to do anything fun around here!" Daphne growled following Maddie upstairs.

Tandy smirked. "What?" Rayna asked. "I think your daughter is trying to play matchmaker with you and Deacon." Rayna shook her head. "That is ridiculous. Besides he's seeing someone." Tandy's eyebrows shot up. "Still?" Rayna nodded.

"Then maybe we should add a plus one to Deacon's invite." Tandy started to write on Deacon's invite but Rayna grabbed the pen out of her hand. "No, no there is no need for that." Tandy smirked again at Rayna. "Well I know she's not an Edgehill artist so what's your excuse for not inviting this one?"

"I just think it would be very awkward with her there." Tandy laughed. "Why because you want him alone?" Rayna gave her a look. "No, because I-I walked in on them and if I see her again that's all I'm going to think about and I don't need that at my party." Tandy made an ill face and nodded in agreement. "Oh yeah, that's bad. Where exactly did you walk in on them?"

Rayna sighed knowing how Tandy interpreted everything wrong and knowing how bad it sounded in her head before she said it out loud. She winced waiting for her sister to react. "At his house." Tandy's face said it all. "And what were you doing letting yourself into his house?"

Rayna shrugged bashfully. "I don't know. It's just what we do." Tandy shook her head in disapproval. "Rayna, you really expect me to believe that?"

"Yeah! Tandy, he's in a serious relationship and Luke and I- we're-you know-whatever." Tandy crossed her arms over her chest. "Whatever?" Rayna covered her eyes knowing she wasn't getting her point across. "You know what I mean."

"The only reason you're whatever with Luke is because you're afraid to commit because he's not Deacon!" Rayna buried her face in her hands. "What? No! Tandy stop!"

Tandy grabbed Rayna's arm, forcing her to look at her. "A few weeks ago you told me that you could see a future with this guy and now you've been blowing him off a lot here lately." Rayna finally stood up straight.

"That's not true! He came over the other night and we recorded at the studio together." Tandy tapped her nails on the counter. "Do you care about him?" Rayna bit her, hesitating a bit. "Of course." Rayna could hear it in her own voice how unconvincing that sounded. She knew Tandy wouldn't buy it.

Tandy threw her arms in the air as if she had the answers to everything. "Then invite him to the party! It's not like he's going to try to steal one of your artists, your only artist like Jeff did." Rayna scratched her head. "I wouldn't be so sure about that. Luke and Jeff are pretty tight."

Tandy laughed. "You always have an excuse don't you?" Rayna threw her hands in the air this time. "It's not an excuse! I'm protecting my label, our company!"

"You're protecting your heart is what you're doing. You are afraid to fall in love because you're still holding on to that last sting of hope that Deacon will come around." Rayna slammed her fists down on the counter. "Do I still care about Deacon? Yeah I do. I worry about him falling off the wagon again. I worry about his relationship with Maddie. I worry about his career with his hand. Yeah I care about him and I probably always will if that's what you wanted to hear. But I told Deacon we were through. I did that Tandy. Deacon and I, we're not together."

Before Tandy had a chance to argue, Daphne's voice hollered from upstairs and interrupted them. "Mom, have you seen my pink shirt with the pokka dots? I want to take that to Dad's." Rayna sighed, hollering up the stairs. "I'll be right up to help you look for it Sweetie." Rayna gave Tandy a look and left the room.

Later the evening, Rayna walked Maddie inside the restaurant. Maddie spotted Deacon sitting at a table with Megan. Maddie stopped walking and crossed her arms. "What is she doing here?" Maddie asked. Rayna forced a smile, putting her hand on Maddie's back to give her a slight push to move forward. "She's Deacon's girlfriend." Maddie looked up at her mother. "I thought you said it was just going to be the two of us."

Deacon saw them and smiled, waving them over. "Hey Maddie, you remember Megan right?" Maddie nodded and smiled politely before mumbling under her breath. "So good to see you again. Hello Rayna." Megan said smiling back. "Hi Megan." Rayna said.

Rayna turned her attention to Deacon. She pulled out an envelope with his name on it from her purse. "I don't want to disturb your dinner plans. I'll be out of your way but I wanted to give you this." She hands it to him. He looks at her. "It's an invite to Highway 65's launch party."

He smiled. "So it's really happening huh? You're really doing this thing all on your own." She smiled back at him tucking the loose hair behind her ear. "Kind of crazy right?" He shook his head. "For you? No." She laughed catching Megan staring at her out of the corner of her eye. She took a deep breath, awkwardly. "Well I'm going to head out. Drop her off to the house after?" Maddie looked at her mother with a glare.

Deacon saw the look on Maddie's face and politely invited Rayna. "Oh I thought you were joining us?" Deacon said sounding disappointed. Rayna shook her head. "That's quite alright. Ya'll enjoy your dinner." Maddie grabbed Rayna's arm. "Mom! Please stay?" Rayna smiled awkwardly. "Sweetie I'll see you later." "But Deacon said it was okay." Rayna patted Maddie on the back. "Maddie I-" Rayna started to say. Megan watched Maddie cling to Rayna's arm. She smiled. "Rayna please join us, really, we would love to have you." Megan said.