Rayna and Tandy strolled through the savoury isle of the supermarket. It had been three days since Rayna and Teddy had filed for divorce. Maddie had already let slip that Teddy was sleeping with Peggy, and it bugged Rayna. She wasn't jealous, she and Teddy were having an amicable divorce, no one had played dirty- yes someone had cheated but she wasn't THAT derailed by the situation. What did annoy her was the how quickly Teddy had moved on, he hadn't been too pleased to see her when she went to visit him that morning and he didn't deny he was sleeping with Peggy either. To be fair he was convinced that Rayna had been having an emotional affair with Deacon for the past thirteen years. And the truth is; she had, she was just too afraid to admit it to herself, let a lone anyone else.

'Everyone is starin' again Tandy.' Rayna muttered under her breath.

'I know hun, just ignore them,' her sister feebly replied.

'It's like they can sense distress in a person y'know? Like they're waiting for me to mess up.'

'That's because they are.' Her sister joked, nudging Rayna in the stomach.

Rayna smirked and swatted her sister playfully, 'Imma go find some of those pancakes the girls like, the ones with all the chocolate chips in, and maybe some popcorn, I'm feeling a chick flick session comin' along.'

'Have fun sweetie,' her sister replied, 'ill just get coffee and meet you out front.'

Rayna walked away, ducking her head to avoid any unwanted attention, she found the pancakes almost instantaneously, probably because she always bought them; cooking was not her forte. The popcorn, however, was proving harder to find. Rayna was baffled, she couldn't find it anywhere. She walked up to one of the employees.

'Excuse me, Katie, is it?' she read off the girl's name tag, 'I was just wondering if you could point me in the direction of where the popcorn may be, please.'

The girls mouth hung open, it was clear to Rayna that she had never been in close proximity with a celebrity before. 'Ohmmmm, why- er- yes of course Ray- I mean Ms Jaymes, if you'd like to follow me over to isle seven.' She gestured all too willingly.

'I'm sure I can manage,' Rayna stated, she was not trying to be rude but she really didn't want to be around people today,' But thanks anyway for your help, I'll be sure to put in a good word for y'all.'

Rayna made her way down to isle seven, she turned the corner onto the isle and saw the overly decorated snack section, popcorn wouldn't be hard to find now. As she approached the shelf she noticed that there was only one box left. 'Lucky me,' she thought. As she reached out to get it her hand was intercepted by a large, masculine hand tugging at the box.

'Excuse me!' she snapped, it was only when she turned her head to see her opponent she realised who it was.

'Fuck,' she thought.

'Hey Ray,' Deacon greeted her.

'What are you doing here?!' she yelled. Their last conversation had not ended well and to say the least she was pissed off with him. How could Deacon of all people believe that she would have a one night stand? She wasn't twenty anymore.

'What do you mean? It's a supermarket Ray.' He joked.

'Yes but what are you doing in this supermarket Deacon? You expect me to believe you drove all the way out to Belle Meade for some popcorn?'

' I don't expect anything from you Rayna.' He retorted, Rayna picked up on the ulterior motive behind his reaction. ' The truth is, I was looking to rent 'Old Yeller' and the movie store up here was the only one with it in. Don't worry im not stalkin' ya.'

'Old Yeller then? You only do that on your birthday. Oh shit sorry Deacon, I completely forgot.'

'Yeah, you know me, nothing else to look forward to…' he muttered under his breath.

'Look Deacon, we need to talk about everything really. Liam, Teddy, us. It just needs sorting out y'know?' Rayna pleaded.

'Ugh Rayna, I don't wanna talk about it now.'

'Then when do you want to talk about it Deacon? This is the problem with you, you never seem to want to talk about anything!'

'Hey don't turn this around on me! I'm not the one who slept with my producer, I'm not the one who got kissed in an elevator then never seemed to talk about it. In fact I remember asking you back stage two weeks ago if you wanted to talk about that. And what did you say Rayna, I think you said 'I don't wanna talk about it' that was you not me. So forgive me if I don't want to talk about a sensitive issue on my birthday!' Deacon fumed, Rayna could be so fickle sometimes, and everything seemed to happen when it suited her. Well what about when it suited him for a change.

'Deacon, I – I, I didn't know-'Rayna tried to interrupt.

'And do you know why you didn't know, because you never cared to listen.' He stated finally.

Rayna shook her head; this was more than her just forgetting about his birthday. They were back in his yard again, arguing the same argument over and over again. Yes she had left him in rehab. Yes she had left him for Teddy. Yes she had fired him from the band. But he knew why she did that and she knew why she did that. How many more times were they going to have the same argument over and over again? They were never going to be able to move forward if they kept rehashing the past.

Suddenly, out of nowhere Daphne ran up to her mother and pulled at her hand. 'Mom c'mon quickly, they're writing about your divorce. Oh hey Uncle Deacon.'

'Hi Darlin'' Deacon smiled, as pissed as he was at Rayna, he wasn't about to take it out on an eight year old.

Rayna stared at him ferociously, before turning to her daughter' Okay hun, I will be there in a minute,' she turned to face Deacon, 'You can keep the damn popcorn.' She forced the box into his arms and sprinted off through the supermarket.

Rayna searched for Maddie, Daphne and Tandy who were all huddle around a magazine rack. A buzz seemed to be surrounding US Weekly and Rayna couldn't help but notice all the other shoppers staring at her fixated.

'Hey y'all what's going on?!' Rayna demanded softly.

'Is any of this true mom?!' Maddie quizzed. 'Did you really cheat on dad with Liam and Deacon?'

'No hunny, just ignore them. They're just trying to pit your dad and I against one another.' Rayna said, trying to convince her wide eyed daughters of the truth.

'But they were right about dad, what makes this any different?' Maddie stammered.

'What do you mean they were right about daddy?' Daphne asked bewildered.

'Nothin' angel, ignore your sister,' Rayna said, cocking her head and glaring at her eldest to tell her to keep it hush.

'Er Rayna' Tandy nudged, 'people are taking pictures.'

'I'm well aware of that Tandy, thank you very much for pointing it out though.' Rayna snapped.

'I was only trying to help Rayna, calm down.'

'Calm down?! I'm having to explain my personal life to my daughters in a supermarket! Don't tell me to calm down. You don't understand. If you really wanna help buy the magazines. BUY ALL OF THEM. Charge them on my card if you need to.' Rayna threw her purse at Tandy.

'Ok you get the girls outta here, ill sort out this mess.'

'C'mon girls, let's get to the car, keep your head down and walk straight ahead, don't look back.' Rayna instructed, as they set off to leave, Rayna caught Deacon in the corner of her eye. He was just stood watching with discomfort as he watched the woman he loved and her children forced out the supermarket.