Thank you so much for all of your support and reviews! It means so much! Please keep writing your reviews and all your likes/dislikes about the story! In this chapter there is a song that Deacon sings called "Changed" by Rascal Flatts, look it up! What I thought was a bit ironic is that the music video for "Changed" by Rascal Flatts Charles Esten(Deacon in Nashville) is the main character so look it up on youtube! Thanks so much, please keep reading!

When Deacon finished the song he wrote he looked at his watch and it was 12:38 am, he knew Rayna would have already been asleep and she was. Deacon was tired but he realized something that he had to do. He had to sing it to her. But he couldn't wait until she was awake in the morning he had to do see her now. He grabbed his lyrics and guitar and headed out the door.

Deacon rehearsed the song in the car and memorized it by the time he pulled into her driveway.

Deacon knocked on her door 3 times and waited there for 5 minutes but there was no answer. "Damn it," Deacon said impatiently. He needed to see her and sing to her so he went where her window was and grabbed a rock. He threw the rock up to the window on the second floor of her house where she would be sleeping.

"What the hell?" Rayna said scared to herself.

Deacon kept throwing rocks until she opened the window and looked down.

"Deacon? Is that you?" She said confused.

Deacon started strumming and sang, "I came up out of the water, raised my hands up to the father, gave it all to him that day felt a new wind kiss my face."

"He really isn't giving up is he?" Rayna said under her breath looking down at him. He looked so handsome singing and then she realized what the song was really about. It was about his sobriety.

"I got off track, I made mistakes. Back slid my way into that place where souls get lost and lines get crossed and the pain won't go away. I hit my knees, now here I stand. There I was now here I am, here I am...changed." He sang perfectly.

Deacon was looking up at her the entire time until he noticed her slipping away from the window. That was it for him. He felt embarrassed and thought she would actually want to go after him but she was gone. He had stopped singing and started just looking at the window saying,

"Come on now Ray, you are killing me. Do you know what it is like to love someone for 20 years? Do you Rayna Jaymes? Please just talk to me."

"Yes, I do Deacon Claybourne." Rayna said as Deacon tilted his head to her surprised with a big grin on his face.

Rayna leaped into his arms and Deacon kissed her passionately. In between each kiss Deacon whispered, "Don't you ever scare me like that again. I thought I lost you, I thought for a split second that you weren't mine anymore."

"Deacon, I will always be yours." Rayna whispered to him as they began to kiss again.

They couldn't stop kissing they were trying to walk while kissing but weren't so good at it. Rayna ended up falling on Deacon in her yard.

"Ow" Rayna said as they fell onto the ground.

Deacon laughed, "are you alright sweetheart?"

"yeah, well you broke the fall for me" she said smiling at him.

They stood up and ran to the car. She kissed him again when he got to the driver's seat but Deacon broke away.

"You do realize we are going to have to save this for when we get home you can't be doing this while I'm drivin'." Deacon said looking as happy as ever.

"Fine." Rayna shrugged.

"When you woke me up I freaked out. You scared the hell out of me." Rayna said smiling at Deacon.

"Hey you scared the hell out of me! I guess we both were pretty scared." Deacon said glancing at Rayna while driving.

Deacon pulled over on the side of the road.

"What are you do-" Rayna was interrupted by Deacon with a kiss.

"Sorry I couldn't wait." Deacon said smiling at Rayna before he kissed her again.

"No, let's just get home" Rayna said trying to push away.

"Like you could wait too." Deacon joked.

"Well I could knowing that we could do all we want when we get home."

The next morning Rayna woke up next to Deacon. She looked up and smiled up at him while he was sleeping. He looked so handsome. She realized she really loved him, she always had. She looked at her phone trying not to wake up Deacon and saw that it was 8:00 she figured that she would go back to sleep since they had stayed up until 3:30 in the morning.

She went back to sleep until she got a call that woke them both up around 9:00.

"Oh My God can you shut that thing up." Deacon said with a nice tone.

"It's Bucky." Rayna said almost pressing the answer button.

"Woah, woah you aren't answering that." Deacon said grabbing Rayna's arm.

"Real quick?" Rayna begged.

"Hey it's not like Bucky is waiting 13 years like I did." Deacon grinned.

"Okay but only because I love you."

Deacon kissed her passionately.

Two Hours Later

"I've missed this so much," Deacon said staring at Rayna in the bed.

"Me too, I should have picked you all along," Rayna said looking at the ceiling.

"Well I mean I could have done this 13 years ago anyway but like I knew I would never stop waiting for you." Deacon made her smile and then kissed her again.

"Want some breakfast?" Deacon said trying to hop off the bed until Rayna pulled him closer.

"Not quite yet." Rayna said pulling him closer with a kiss.

"Damn it! What does he want?" Deacon said interrupting their kiss as Rayna's phone rang.

"I don't know. But can I please just pick it up because otherwise Bucky will not stop calling."

"Alright." Deacon said grinning.

"Hey Bucky!" Rayna greeted Bucky on the phone.

"Hey what are you doing?" Bucky asked.

"Just eating breakfast...alone." Rayna said watching Deacon laugh at her answer.

"Rayna it's almost one o'clock."

"Yeah, I had to do a lot of um stuff this morning and didn't have time to eat." Rayna said smiling at Deacon as he laughed again.

"Okay well I was just remindin' you that you are goin back out on tour tomorrow."

"Yep it's gonna be fun."

"Yeah but we are switching the flights and the flight leaves today in um two hours."

"What?!"

"Sorry Rayna. You know I called you a while ago and you didn't answer."

"Yeah, I know I'm sorry well I guess I will see you in two hours." Rayna said clueing Deacon in on what was going on.

"See you then."

Rayna hung up the phone and told Deacon she needed to get home and start packing. Deacon didn't let her go and made her stay for another 30 minutes and made her breakfast. He cooked scrambled eggs and bacon. He was always so good at cooking.

"Well I guess I will see you in about an hour." Rayna said in front of the door.

Deacon kissed her and then she headed out.

Airport

Rayna boarded the plane and sat next to Liam. Liam leaned in for a kiss but Rayna turned away. Liam thought that he and Rayna were together.

"Last time saw you you were barging out of a bar with Deacon."

"Yeah, sorry about that."

"Speak of the devil." Liam said as Deacon boarded the plane.

Deacon rushed over and almost went in for a long kiss with Rayna until he realized they were surrounded by Juliette, Liam, and Bucky. Deacon stood awkwardly wanting to kiss Rayna. He didn't know what to do so he shook her hand. Rayna almost started laughing out loud because she loved how Deacon didn't know what to do in awkward moments like that.

"Liam," Deacon nodded greeting Liam.

"Ass hole," Liam nodded greeting Deacon.

"Excuse me?" Deacon said wide-eyed.

"You heard me. Next time you shouldn't be taking my girl."

"Your girl? If you are meaning Rayna as in 'your girl' then man I don't know what to tell you."

"Says her ex."

Rayna couldn't believe the tension between them. They hated each other.

"No. Says the man she actually loves. What the hell am I doing talking to this punk?" Deacon said walking towards the back of the plane.

Leaving everyone silent until Juliette let out a laugh.

Las Vegas

"Thank you Las Vegas I love y'all!" Rayna said as she headed off the stage. "Where in the hell was Liam when he should have been on that stage?" Rayna asked the crew. The crew all said they didn't see him anywhere. It didn't matter though she had gotten through the song without him. All she cared about was finding Deacon and when she was backstage she saw something that made her scream, "Deacon!"