So this scene encompasses a discussion between Rayna and Maddie after Deacon finds Maddie and Colt half dressed at his house. I know we got to see the Deacon side of this convo, but I love these mother daughter moments so I'd thought let's see what Rayna has to say. This is includes some discussion about Deacon's liver cancer which was also looming over their heads at the time. I love reading reviews so keep letting me know what you guys think!

"Maddie, sweetie, can I come in?" Rayna called as she lightly knocked on the bedroom door of her eldest daughter.

"Uh-huh, it's open," Maddie answered back.

Rayna turned the handle and stepped inside to see Maddie, legs under the covers, and her song journal open across her lap. Rayna glanced around at the walls, smiling at the posters of various country stars, pictures from when Maddie was little, photo booth strips of Maddie and her friends making silly faces for the camera, and Rayna's favorite, the guitar pick frame on her nightstand with the picture of the four of them performing at Fort Campbell.

Rayna could still remember when this had been her nursery, with a crib and light pink walls and a big rocking chair in the corner where Rayna would quietly sing lullabies until the sun came up, trying to soothe Maddie. Rayna had always found that it was the old country ballads that got her down the fastest.

While the room looked like that of any average teenage girl, Deacon's run in with Maddie and Colt at his house made Rayna realize her baby girl wasn't a baby anymore and she was growing up right before her eyes into a young woman.

Rayna walked over to the bed and sat by Maddie's blanket-covered legs.

"Do you mind putting that away for a second?" Rayna asked, gesturing to the songbook.

Maddie obliged, folding it closed.

"Dad told you didn't he?" Maddie said, seemingly able to read Rayna's motherly demeanor that she took on especially for serious talks.

"He did, babe. And you know this is something we have to talk about. You're getting older and your relationship with Colt is developing and it's a really exciting time for you, but there's a lot of big choices that come along with that."

"I swear, Mom, we weren't doing it. And we weren't going to. It wasn't going to go that far."

"Oh hon, I know you say that and I'm sure you mean it. But when your dating someone, and y'all are so wrapped up in each other, sometimes things can just happen even if you didn't think they would and it's something I want you to be able to come to me about."

"Mom, this is so embarrassing, can we please just let it go and like ground me or something?"

Rayna chuckled at her daughter's discomfort. This was a day Rayna had always partly been dreading, but deep down she was so happy she was able to be there for Maddie. When Rayna had gotten involved with Deacon and they started going further and further, Rayna felt so lost. Her daddy had kicked her out so she was living with Deacon and when they weren't in Nashville, they were out on the road together. Rayna hadn't had a lot of close female friends and she never felt like she could talk to Tandy about this stuff back then. Rayna had ached to be able to talk to her mama, to have someone to ask all the scary questions and to have someone reassure her that everything would be alright. She wanted Maddie to know that she could come to her.

"I know it's probably awkward to talk about sex with your mom. But, you are getting older and we need to have this conversation at some point. Is Colt pressuring you to sleep with him? Because if he is, that is not the kind of person you want to be in a relationship with let alone intimate with."

"No, Mom! He's totally not like that at all. He knows I'm not ready and he respects that."

"So it's something y'all have talked about? Something, you've considered?"

"I mean it was brought up, I kinda thought about it. I just….How do you know when it's right?"

"Oh sweet girl, that is such a complicated question, one I could never fully answer. But let me tell you this, when you do decide to have sex, you want to be 100% sure. If there's ever any doubt in your mind, it's not the right time. You want it to be with someone you trust completely, someone you love, someone very special to you and someone who respects you and your boundaries. Being intimate with someone like that is such a sacred thing, you don't just give that piece of yourself to just anyone. I could tell you to wait till marriage, till you're committed to someone for life, but that would be unfair of me. And if you do decide to have sex, you need to be smart. You need to be—"

"Okay, okay, Mom I think I got enough of that part in health class, I really don't need to hear it from you again."

"Ok, just so long as we are clear on that."

"We are. Crystal clear," Maddie said reassuringly.

"So was Deacon your first?" Maddie asked shyly.

"He was, hon. We loved each other very much and being with the right person is what made it so special," Rayna replied, smiling as she fondly looked back on that night.

"And you were how old?"

"I was just about seventeen, your age."

"I'm glad we got to talk about this together. And you know I'm always here for you, your dad is always here for you, even to talk about this stuff. And even if you feel like you can't come to us, you know how much Juliette loves you, too."

"I know, Mom. Is dad still mad?"

"No, babe, he just wants to make sure you're alright."

"Mom, what are we going to do? Dad can't die. It's not fair. He already missed so many years. It's not fair if we don't get to make up for it," Maddie whispered, her voice cracking just a little.

Rayna's heart broke at her daughter's confession. Rayna felt so guilty, knowing that she had added so substantially to her daughter's pain. What Rayna had convinced herself to be the best way to protect Maddie back then seemed to never stop coming back to haunt her. Rayna slid closer to Maddie and wrapped her in her arms, which was the only comfort Rayna could provide with such an impossible situation. There was no way to go back and fix the past, whatever that meant changing, and Deacon's future was no longer in Rayna's hands. She had thrown her hail mary pass and it was up to Beverly to catch it.

Rayna wished she could let Maddie know she was doing everything in her power to fix this. But she knew if Beverly rejected Rayna's offer, it would only devastate her family even further to know about it in the first place. All Rayna could do was hold Maddie, just like she had when she was a little girl and she fell on the playground or someone had teased her at school. Except now, their problems were much larger and more complicated than skinned knees and schoolyard bullies.

Rayna prayed Beverly came through for them. Otherwise, not only could Rayna not even begin to image her future without Deacon, she didn't think she could bare looking into Maddie's eyes everyday, knowing she had stolen the majority of time Deacon and Maddie could have had together.