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It´s one of those summer night, really hot wherever you are, but if you look up to the sky, you can see a storm slowly forming over Nashville, maybe promising to refresh the air.

Rayna is not particularly a fan of those summer storms. Worse yet, she is alone at the house; Daphne and Maddie are at Tandy´s house, something about a bet her sister lost against her nieces, so she is alone and scared.

Her first thought when she heard about the storm this morning was to check whether she had enough food and batteries for the flashlight. Just to be a hundred percent sure, she went grocery shopping. She got all kinds of food, including ice cream, because she was planning to watch a movie while the power was on. She also bought batteries and, just in case, candles. After all, you never knew what things could happen with a summer storm. By the time she got home with all the provisions, the girls were ready and waiting for Tandy, who had promised them to make some pizza, or, more accurately, buy some on their way home.

When Tandy arrived the first thing she asked her little sister was whether she was going to be okay by herself. She knew how much Rayna hated storms. Rayna reassured her sister, "I´m going to be just fine. Now go, your nieces are dying to spend the night with you." And so they left. On their way to Tandy´s, Maddie texted Deacon to check on her mom "Think you can stop by mom´s later and check on her? She hates storms and she is alone. Thanks Dad." And with that Maddie started to enjoy her evening with her aunt and sister, knowing that Deacon would never say no.

Deacon was leaving the studio, after working on some new songs for his album, when he read the text Maddie had sent him. He remembered all those stormy nights that he and Rayna used to stay up, doing something to distract her. Sometimes they would talk, write a song... and sometimes they would hide under the sheets or a blanket on the couch and take their time showing each other exactly how much they loved one another. So, it was good he had his guitar in hand, otherwise things would end up in a messy tangle of sheets and they were not ready for that. Or at least, that was what he thought.

[NASHVILLE]

The first thing Deacon noticed when he got to Rayna's was that every window and door that could be opened was closed. In fact, if Maddie had not sent him the message, he would have thought that she wasn't home.

The knock on the front door startled her; she was so into the movie that she didn't even hear Deacon's truck. She stopped the movie and as she walked to the door all she could think was "Who the hell is it?" When she opened the door, she was far more shocked to find Deacon standing in front of her with his guitar and take-out food he had picked up on his way.

"Hi, what are you doing?" was all she could say. He looked really good; blue v-neck t-shirt, those jeans, and the mega smile he was wearing made her knees weak.

"Hi, just thought that maybe you wanted a little bit of company for a while... You know, cause of the storm. I remember how much you hate them." And it was true, he did remember. He took a look at her, hair all messy and wearing shorts and a shirt, which he recognized as his own. She looked so damn beautiful.

She moved aside and gestured for him to come in. They went to the kitchen; he left the guitar near the counter and started to take the food out so they could have dinner. She told him she was watching a movie and he suggested they eat in the living room, like old times, both of them sitting on the floor in front of the TV, so they did.

The lights were turned down and they settled in, sitting side by side, knees almost touching, to watch the movie.

He laughed when she cried at the cheesy moments in the movie. He laughed even harder when she hit him because she realized he was laughing at her and not the movie. As the movie moved forward, their positions in front of the TV did too; almost by the end of it, she was snuggled under his arm, with her head under his chin. One of his hands was lightly caressing her arm and the other was resting upon her knee. It felt so natural for them to be this close and to feel so at peace with each other, that all their movements where subconscious.

By the time the movie end, the wind was blowing hard and tiny drops of rain were starting to fall, but Rayna was far from feeling scared. She was so focused on the movement of Deacon's hand on her arm that she could hardly hear the storm beginning. They hadn't been this close in a long time, even when they got back to writing together again; they always tried to keep each other at arms lengths because they knew how carried away things could get.

But tonight, everything felt different.