Thank you for the follows and the wonderful reviews, it means the world to me! Yes, this chapter does end with a cliffhanger. I like those and if you don't PLEASEEEE let me know :) I think the next chapter will be up tomorrow or maybe later. I'm writing it now so we'll see :) they will find each other in the same place in the next chapter. Okay I'll stop talking now :)
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It has been three days since Rayna saw Deacon and today was the night of the show. She hadn't had time to talk to him about Maddie yet because of all the preparations for the tour. Lucky for her the first show was in Nashville and then they would have a three day break before the tour really started up. Scarlet and Luke would have the stage most of the time. She was only going to sing five songs.
After the encounter in the park Deacon had gone home and made dinner for Megan. Deacon loves that she is sweet and understanding and that she is really helping him but he doesn't want to lead her on because he doesn't think it will last. 'I have to break it off with her. It's not fair of me to be thinking of being with Rayna while I'm with her. Megan will find a guy that will hold her heart again, it's just not me because mine is taken.' He thought to himself. It was true his heart had been taken that night so many years ago when he had seen Rayna at the Bluebird the first time. 'I'll tell Megan how I feel at dinner.' When Megan got to his house they had had dinner and then they were sitting on the couch and he said, "I need to tell you the truth Meg. I feel horrible for leading you on this long because I honestly don't think this is going to last forever. I'm telling you this now because I don't want to hurt you anymore than I already have." Megan gave him a sad smile but she understood completely. "It's okay Deacon, you deserve happiness, you deserve to be with the person you truly love. I have lived with the love of my life and it was the happiest years of my life. You didn't hurt me, I knew that this was going to end like this. I could see it in you that you were never truly with me." He hugged her and gave her a kiss. "Thank you for understanding. You have helped me a lot and I will be forever grateful for that. I hope we can be friends?" "Yes we can definitely be friends." They smiled at each other and then Megan had left. Deacon hadn't done much the next two days and he hadn't told Rayna he had left Megan, he hadn't even called Rayna.
The morning of the show at Tandy's house:
"Morning girls!" Rayna said as she was filling them two bowls of cereal.
"Morning." They replied still half asleep. Rayna laughed and went on, "okay so Daddy is going to pick you up after school today and you will be at his house till the day the tour starts because he will be going on his honeymoon and he wants to spend time with you before he goes." Maddie and Daphne needed in response.
Maddie asked, "will we be going on tour with you this time too? The first actual show is on a Friday so maybe we could spend the weekend on tour with you."
"Hmmm. That could work actually and then you girls can just come back with aunt Tandy Sunday evening."
Tandy walked in the room, "hmm?" Daphne told Tandy the conversation and Tandy agreed.
"Yayyyyy!" Daphne exclaimed and they all laughed.
After Rayna took the girls to school she went back home and Tandy was there.
"Rayna?" "Yes?" Rayna walked into her bedroom where her sister was. "I was looking for a pair of shoes to borrow in this box that you hadn't opened and I found this." Tandy was holding up a shoe box that didn't contain shoes in it. Rayna took the box from her sister, "yeah, what about it?" Rayna was acting as if she didn't know what was in it. Tandy gave her sister a look, "I opened it and that's really cute what you have in there." Rayna sat on the bed and her sister sat next to her. Rayna opened the box and took out ten pictures of her and Deacon. She has kept them because sometimes when she missed him she looked at them. Her favorite was one of them hugging and Deacon was grieving her a kiss on the cheek and she was smiling. It was of when they were together and it symbolized their happiness and closeness. The box had also kept the ring he had given her, the one she gave back to him not too long ago. "What I don't get is why you have two keys in there?" Rayna laughed. "That's for me to know and for you to find out. Wanna guess? I mean it's pretty obvious next to these pictures." Tandy picked up the pictures and smiled because they were so cute. Then she realized what one key was. Her mouth fell open and she looked at her sister "Oh my God! Are these the keys to the house he bought, your dream house?" Rayna smiled and her eyes were full of melancholy, "yeah, one of them is." Tandy have her a smile, "and the other one?"