Long time no update y'all! I've been so busy with work and college starting up again also trying to watch and finish Friday Night Lights hasn't helped either haha. But I haven't forgotten about this story in the least!

Here's the next chapter for you all and I hope you like it!

**I DO NOT OWN NASHVILLE OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS**


"Cadence let's go!" Juliette shouted into the house as she stepped out the front door.

"I'm coming!" the teen shouted back. Juliette checked the time on her phone, it was amazing to her that Cadence could take longer than her to get ready.

A minute or so later, Cadence came down the stairs and went to the door where Juliette was standing. "Sorry," said Cadence.

"What took you so long?" Juliette asked curiously.

"I couldn't get my hair to look right," the younger blonde said discouragingly about her messy fishtail side braid. The mother and daughter stepped out of the house together as Juliette locked the door. "The first time I did it I pulled too much out and it looked horrible."

They went over to Juliette's car that Lance pulled up to the front of the house. "All week you have been taking longer than I have to get ready," said Juliette as she walked around the car to get to the drivers side.

Cadence chucked, opening the passenger door and sitting down. "And what's wrong with that?"

"Nothing," said Juliette as she started the engine. "I'm all for taking time to make sure you look good, but not when I have things planned to do."

"Maybe it's something I just take after from you," Cadence said as she pulled the seatbelt over her body and locked it. Juliette looked at Cadence and smiled, "Probably. And that is a cute romper by the way."

The sixteen year old looked down at her teal colored romper and pulled the shorts down just slightly, "Thank you."

"Now we can finally get going," said Juliette as Cadence watched her reach up to press a button. Soon the top automatically went down and Cadence looked over at Juliette with the biggest smile on her face, "I have never been in a convertible before!"

"Well now you have," said Juliette as she put the car in drive. The wind started to blow as Juliette drove down the driveway and up to the gate. "What are we doing first?" Cadence asked, remembering Juliette had a few things planned for the day.

"First I'm helping you with something," said Juliette as the gate opened and she drove onto the main road.

"That's all you're going to tell me?" Cadence asked in a confused tone. "Is that the first clue or something?"

"Yep," Juliette quickly said, making Cadence roll her eyes playfully. It only took a couple of minutes before they arrived at their destination. Juliette slowed down and pulled into the parking lot of an old abandoned church.

"This is the first surprise?" Cadence asked, looking over at her mother with the you have got to be kidding me look.

Juliette nodded as she pulled over by the curb against the perimeter of the church parking lot. She put the car in park and got out of the car. Cadence unbuckled her seatbelt and turned her body as she watched Juliette go to the trunk of the car. For a second she really started to think that Juliette was crazy until she pulled out two bright orange traffic cones. The teen knew exactly what they were going to do.

"Oh no," said Cadence. "We are not doing this now."

Juliette closed the trunk and started to place the cones in their approximate positions, behind and in front of the car. "Yes we are, when you get back home you are passing that drivers test and you are going to nail parallel parking."

"But today?" Cadence whined. She didn't want to have to worry about this on such a special day and she especially didn't want to fail and know yet again that she couldn't parallel park.

"What happened to you telling me that you would owe me everything if I got you to parallel park?" Juliette asked as she adjusted the cones so that there was a little more extra room for Cadence to park.

Cadence slumped back down in the passenger seat and let out a sigh. "Get in the drivers seat," Juliette ordered.

Cadence got out of the passenger side and walked over to get in the drivers seat. Juliette got into the passenger side and shut the door. "But this is you car, your really nice car…I could-."

"Cadence…we're working with cones here, not other cars," Juliette assured her.

"Right," said Cadence, quickly regretting the stupid excuse. "Where did you get the cones anyways?"

"I had Emily find them for me," said Juliette.

Cadence let out a deep breath as she put her hands on the steering wheel. "Just relax," Juliette assured her. "Listen, my mama taught me in this old beat-up car that I was terrified of driving because I thought it was going to fall apart when I pushed on the gas pedal." Cadence laughed softly as she looked over at her mother and listened to what she had to say. "We practiced in an old church parking lot kinda like this one. We didn't have cones so we used old metal barrels that were heavy as hell which we found somewhere in our trailer park," said Juliette. "Do you think I was great at it at first?"

"Um, yeah? You're you, you are great at everything you do."

"And you're my daughter, who is just as great, even better…if you put your mind to it," said Juliette, earning a smile from the sixteen year old. "Just take your time."

Cadence let out a sigh, "Alright." She reached to her left and pulled the seatbelt across her body and Juliette did the same. Juliette knew she had missed a lot of Cadence's milestones and while this certainly wasn't the biggest, she was happy to be a part of something now.

The teen slowly pulled out of the spot and turned around to attempt parallel parking. "I know this part," said Cadence as she pulled past the cone just slightly so that the back right of the car was next to the cone.

"Good," said Juliette. "Now put it in reverse and turn the wheel twice to the right. And check your mirrors."

Cadence put the car in reverse and started to slowly turn right as she checked her mirrors and looked behind. "When the front right of the car matches up with the cone, start to turn left," Juliette instructed as Cadence nodded. As she was still in reverse, Cadence noticed she backed up too much.

"Ugh," the younger blonde grunted.

"Just put it in drive and pull back up a bit," said Juliette. "You're doing great Cadence."

The blonde proceeded and pulled back up, then began to turn left. While watching her mirrors, she started to stop. "Good, stop," said Juliette. "Now turn right again…" She watched as Cadence pulled in more towards the curb and finished. Juliette looked out her side of the window and made sure that they were at a good distance from the curb.

Cadence put the car in park and was amazed, "Oh my god, I did it! I didn't hit the cones or anything!" She started jumping up and down in her seat, she leaned over to Juliette and the two of them exchanged an embrace, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

"You're welcome," Juliette said with a smile as they both pulled away. "I'm so proud of you."

"I owe you, I don't know what it is but I just owe you something," said Cadence.

"Cadence you don't owe me anything, I'm the one that owes you."

The sixteen year old nodded and accepted what Juliette said and was referring to. While she hated how much Juliette put herself down for what she did in the past, she couldn't help but feel that she was right. But there was no way that Juliette could make up for all that she missed. Cadence only knew that Juliette could be there for what was in the future.

"Can we do it a couple more times?" Cadence asked.

"Yeah, the more practice the better."

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The next stop Juliette planned was The Mall at Green Hills where she wanted to buy Cadence a dress to wear to her party. Upon entering the mall, Cadence started to notice how upscale it was, "What are we doing here?"

"We are here to get you a dress for my twentieth single party," said Juliette.

"Really?" the teen asked to be sure. As much as she loved clothes and shopping, Cadence was never one to splurge on high end brands like the ones she was seeing. Lilly Pulitzer, Tory Burch, and Burberry were some of the few that got her attention as they walked around the mall.

"Any dress you want, my treat," said Juliette.

They walked past the Kate Spade store and Cadence stopped in front of the display window, "Can we look in here?"

"Go ahead," said Juliette as she followed behind her daughter. Cadence went right to one of the few racks displaying some of the dresses the store carried. Juliette started looking through the rack as well. "How many people are going to be at the party?" Cadence asked.

"Well not including press and photographers, a couple hundred or so."

"I guess I won't be seeing you at all that night huh?" Cadence asked, still looking through the dresses.

"I will be very busy, doing interviews and talking to different people but that doesn't mean you can't be by my side for the night."

"Wouldn't that be awkward though? You would have to introduce me and I know people will be wondering things. Maybe it would be best if I kept my distance."

Juliette wasn't sure what to say, she knew Cadence was right. Neither of them wanted to be away from each other, but they both knew it was what was best.

"What about this one?" Cadence asked, pulling out a dress from the rack and showing it to Juliette. It was a white strapless flare dress and Juliette was quick to shake her head.

"No, not that," she said as she went back to looking at another rack of dresses. Cadence put the dress back and went to join Juliette. "Here, it will bring out your eyes," said the older blonde as she pulled out a dark, royal blue dress. It had soft floral imprints along with short sleeves that would hang off of the shoulders.

"It's a gorgeous dress," said Cadence, but then her eyes suddenly widened at the sight of the price. "Juliette this is almost five hundred dollars."

"Go try it on," said Juliette.

"But…"

"Miss. Barnes, would I be able to help you with anything today?" asked one of the sales associates approaching the mother and daughter.

"Yes, she would like to try this dress on," said Juliette.

"Of course, I'll take you to one of our fitting rooms."

Cadence gave Juliette a reluctant look as they followed the sales associate to the fitting room. Once Cadence got a fitting room, Juliette waited outside so Cadence can try on the dress. "Just because I'm trying this on doesn't mean you're buying it for me. I won't let you?"

"What is wrong with me trying to buy you something nice? Plus you need it for the party. We also need to get you some shoes too. We can get your nails done too if you want, I wouldn't mind getting a manicure myself…"

Cadence opened the fitting room curtain and showed the dress to Juliette. She let out a breath and pressed against the beautiful blue dress. It went down to right above her knees and the sleeves rested off of her shoulders nicely. "Okay…I love it," said the young blonde. "And you're right, the blue does bring out my eyes."

Juliette knew she was right, it was easy to tell that blue was her color. "It looks amazing on you Cadence."

"I want it, but I don't want you putting out five hundred dollars. It's too much."

"Cadence please sweetie let me buy you the dress. I want to. Don't worry about the price of it okay?"

"Fine," she sighed.

"So have we made a decision?" asked the sales lady who was checking up on them.

"Yes, we'll take it," said Juliette.

When the mother and daughter eventually left the mall with a few bags in hand, they were caught off guard with the sudden camera men approaching them. There weren't many but there were enough to potentially cause harm to both Juliette and Cadence.

This was something Cadence had never experienced before. She never had cameras in her face, had been blinded by flashes, or asked six personal questions at once. Both herself and Juliette continued making their way to the car. "Just stand by close to me and don't answer them," said Juliette, putting a hand on Cadence's back to keep her moving quickly.

The paparazzi kept asking questions as they walked.

"Juliette who is this with you?"

"Is that your daughter?"

"Why haven't we seen her in so long?"

"Is this going to impact your tour schedule?"

Cadence started to become concerned when the paparazzi wouldn't leave. Especially one in particular that started to get in her face. He got closer and closer, "Please stop," Cadence mumbled as she shielded her face with her free hand.

Juliette took notice and reacted quickly, "Hey! Get away from her," she said sternly. "You're getting your pictures. Isn't that enough? You don't need to get in her face." He backed off immediately and so did the rest of them as Juliette and Cadence got to the car. They got in fast and took off so that they could get away. Once on the road, Juliette called Glenn.

"Juliette?"

"Glenn, paparazzi were waiting outside of the mall for Cadence and I. This is Nashville, not Los Angeles!" she barked.

"I told you you should've had Lance go with you."

"Yes I know but I wanted as much of a normal experience for Cadence as possible."

Cadence looked over at Juliette and watched as she started verbally attacking Glenn. Even though being bombarded by paparazzi was something she didn't want, Cadence liked seeing how instantly protective Juliette became.

"I know, I understand Juliette. I've tried to keep Cadence on the down low for the past few days but it's hard when she goes out with you in big public spaces. There must be word out there that she's with you."

"Glenn. It is your job to keep it under control for a week. Now I don't care what you have to do I want you to make sure those pictures from today are gone. If there is footage, get rid of them too. I'll pay whatever I have to. I don't want them near my daughter again, got it?"

She heard Glenn took a deep breath on his end. He assured her he would do his best before hanging up. Juliette put her phone down and looked away from the road to focus on Cadence. "Hey, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm just a little freaked out that's all. And now slightly blind," she said as she rubbed her eyes.

"They don't get to do that to you. You didn't choose to be in the spotlight so you shouldn't be subjected to being followed everywhere you go," said Juliette. "I'm sorry."

"You're not the one who should be apologizing. You just wanted to take me to the mall like any normal mother and daughter would do. They were being assholes."

"Yeah they were assholes," Juliette chuckled. "Now where do you want to go?"

"Well I thought about it, and I really just want to go back to your place and relax. We could watch a movie and order some food and that would be just as fun as driving all around Nashville."

Juliette looked over at Cadence once more, "Are you sure? I don't want you to limit yourself because you're afraid of them following us."

"No it's not that I promise. I was already thinking about this the other night."

"Well if that's what you want to do, then we'll do it," said Juliette.

"Awesome," said the young blonde as she leaned forward to turn on the radio. Cadence switched between different stations before stopping at one.

"Yes! I love this song," she said, just catching it at the beginning of the second verse.

So it goes

He can't keep his wild eyes on the road

Takes me home

Lights are off, he's taking off his coat, hmm, yeah.

I say, "I heard, oh, that you've been out and about with some other girl, some other girl."

Juliette started to laugh at how dramatic Cadence was being as she sung along. Before she went on to sing the next part, Juliette started before her, doing the same thing Cadence had been but made her voice soft and almost seductive just like Taylor's was in the song.

He says, "What you've heard is true but I

Can't stop thinking about you," and I...

I said, "I've been there, too, a few times."

Cadence started laughing and went along with Juliette into the chorus. She had turned down a backroad to get to her home and both Cadence and Juliette kept singing along. As Juliette picked up speed, the wind blew through their hair and Cadence threw her hands up in the air.

Take me home

Just take me home, yeah.

Just take me home

Juliette took a quick second to look over at Cadence and noticed that this was the happiest she had seen her all week. She realized in that moment this was what Cadence wanted all along, moments like the one they were currently in. While at the beginning her and Cadence were at an awkward start, Juliette could safely say that she and Cadence are at a good place.

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"Food's here," said Juliette, entering her room holding a brown bag that contained Chinese food.

"Finally," said Cadence as she stood up from Juliette's bed, setting her guitar off to the side. Before Juliette went down to see if the food had arrived, they had been working on a new song which had been coming along well. Juliette set the bag on the bed and started pulling out the white take out boxes.

"Sweet and sour chicken for you," she said, handing Cadence her food. "And vegetable lo mein for me."

"Thanks," said Cadence, taking the set of plastic utensils Juliette handed her. "What are you doing tomorrow?"

Juliette sat down on her bed next to Cadence, "Well I have to make up some of the interviews I canceled today so I'm going to be pretty busy over the next couple of days."

"I figured," Cadence slightly chuckled. "I'll probably just stay here or make plans with Drew."

"Okay," said Juliette after she took a bite of her noodles. "What is going on between you and him?"

"Nothing, I promise we're just friends. Plus he's eighteen and I'm sixteen, nothing can really happen, ya know?"

Juliette nodded, "But you would come and talk to me if you did have any interest in a boy wouldn't you?"

"You'll be the first to know," said Cadence. "There is no way I would go to Dad. We're close, but when it comes to just the idea of me dating…he can't imagine his little girl with a boy."

Juliette smiled, "Well I can't say I'm surprised by that. He has been protective of you since the day you were born."

"Yeah, protective is right," said Cadence. "I remember when I was twelve I invited this boy named Trevor over to work on a project for school and I remember Dad just watching us at a distance. He knew nothing would happen but he just wanted to be sure and to supervise what we were doing." She finished the quick story, feeling a sense of awkwardness taking over the room. It was hard for her not to bring up Avery at all. "If you don't want me to talk about him I won't."

"No you can Cadence," Juliette assured her, feeling bad about letting her emotions stand out.

"You guys are the same way when it comes to me talking about both of you to one another. Well…for Dad it's more about me asking."

"You said he never hid me away from you…what has he told you about me?"

"A lot," Cadence laughed as Juliette grew concern.

"Cadence…"

"No I promise it's nothing bad. Just some of the things you did and have said. He told me about the time you stalked him with Emily to see what he was doing with Sadie Stone," said Cadence as she started to laugh again. "And then he saw you and you tried to get away on a scooter."

"Oh so you like that story don't you?" Juliette asked as Cadence nodded and continued to laugh.

"One of the best," said the younger blonde. "But my favorite is how you guys met at the Opry. Well I should really say how you guys bumped into each other at the Opry."

Juliette couldn't help but smile at the memory, "That's a good one."

"I remember asking him to tell me that story all the time when I was little. I never got tired of it," said Cadence as she took a bite of her sweet and sour chicken.

"I'm glad that he told you so much," said Juliette.

"Me too," Cadence agreed. "He also told me that you were the one who thought of my name."

"I was," said Juliette. "I was so paranoid at the thought of coming up with a name that you would have for the rest of your life that you hopefully wouldn't hate. I remember coming up with the worst names and suggesting them to your dad. But after you were born, I took one look at you and it just came to me."

Cadence looked over at her mom and smiled, "Well I can never find my name on a keychain or a mug in a gift shop but I don't hate it. I like to think it fits me well so, thank you."

Juliette nodded before taking another bite of her food. The two of them eventually finished and were ready to watch a movie of Cadence's choice. She went through the movie options on Netflix and eventually chose a favorite of hers.

"Is this okay?" Cadence asked, showing Juliette what she was about to play.

"Roman Holiday?"

"Yeah! Have you not seen it?"

"I haven't," said Juliette who was hoping to watch a scary movie or a comedy.

"It's so good, my grandma showed it to me a couple of years ago. Audrey Hepburn is a princess and she runs away because she wants to see what it's like not being a princess and Gregory Peck is a reporter who basically takes care of her but is actually trying to get a story out of the whole thing and…"

Cadence stopped explaining the movie as she realized that she was going to spoil the whole thing for Juliette. "You're going to love it, I know it," Cadence assured her.

"Okay," Juliette chuckled softly at how excited Cadence got at explaining the movie. The younger blonde pressed play on the remote and started to remove her side fishtail braid that she had in the whole day. Juliette took notice and offered her assistance.

"Here, let me," said Juliette.

Cadence stopped and turned, "Okay." She backed up a little closer to Juliette so she could untangle the braid easier. Juliette worked her way through her daughter's wavy blonde hair that was so much like her own, separating it from the bottom and working her way up. Cadence closed her eyes as Juliette's fingers ran through her hair. When she was little she was always envious of other little girls and how their mom's would brush their hair at night. It was just another little thing Cadence has always imagined she could've had with Juliette.

Juliette stopped right around when the opening credits of the movie finished, "Thanks," said Cadence as she adjusted herself back against Juliette's headboard.

"Yeah of course," said Juliette as the two of them focused their attention towards the movie.

As it went on and the movie started to finish, Cadence had adjusted her position on the bed but eventually fell asleep resting her head partially on Juliette's lap. Juliette had stayed awake to watch the end and Cadence was right, she did end up loving it.

Juliette then looked down at Cadence and noticed that her eyes were closed. She softly rested her hand on top of Cadence's head and gently stroked her hair, but was careful not to wake her up. She and Cadence had been becoming so close and had loved every second of getting to know her, that she started to think about how hard it was going to be to let Cadence go again. Tears started to form in Juliette's eyes, she wanted so badly for things to be different but she couldn't change the past. She knew that Cadence being with Avery was what was best.


So much Juliette and Cadence bonding I love it! I hope you all liked it too...and don't worry, Avery will be back VERY soon!

And is anyone else excited for Nashville coming back this week!? I'm freaking out over the new promo stills and spoilers. Pray for me guys! Lol!

If you like what you read please review, favorite, follow, etc. It means the world to me and it doesn't go unnoticed!

NEXT CHAPTER: Cadence and Drew get together and hang out while Juliette continues to do some last minute tour and single promotion. But with her and Cadence's recent public outings Juliette starts to get questioned, leading to her saying something that strikes Cadence emotionally and causing an issue between the mother and daughter.