A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! I ONLY OWN THIS PLOT! This is my first Glee fan-fic so please go easy on me. After I saw Rachel choke during her audition and then her be left alone in the dark I knew I had to do something. So this is my first story based on the episode "Choke" Parts of this first chapter are taken from the episode I DO NOT OWN THEM! Please leave a review if you want me to continue.

Choke, if you looked that word up in the dictionary it would say "to stop the breath off by squeezing or obstructing the windpipe" However, if you asked Rachel Berry what that word meant, she would tell you it was the one word to explain the most embarrassing, heartbreaking, confidence crashing, moment of her entire life.

That's right, for the first time in 18 years Rachel Berry choked during her audition. It wasn't just any audition either. It was for her favorite college choice NYADA. The one chance she had of getting into her dream college and she blew it.

She could remember that day as clear as day. She wasn't even nervous before it. Her boyfriend Finn Hudson had brought her flowers to wish her luck and she went out onto the stage prepared to sing a song she's been singing since she could talk and she had the strongest opening ever, and yet, something happen and she forgot the words. She tried again a second time but she couldn't get the worlds right.

So now here she was standing in the middle of the stage alone, and in the dark. The judge had left her and she was too shocked to move. She felt ashamed, knowing Finn, and her two best friends Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson, also her music teach William Schuster, had all been watching and just witnessed make a fool of herself. Eighteen years of preparing and practicing, all the money her father's had spent on private tutors, all the lesson Mr. Schuster had taught her, everything had just gone out the window all because she "choked"

The depression overwhelming her she dropped down to her knees and just started to cry into her hands. What did her future hold now? She knew one thing was for sure, from this moment on she was never going to sing again.

She could hear footsteps and she knew it was the others. She felt arms go around her waist and pull her into a strong chest. She knew it was Finn.

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Schuster, I'm so so sorry." Rachel cried.

"Rachel, you have nothing to be sorry for. You did your best and that's all I ever ask of any of you." Will told her honestly.

"No." Rachel cried shaking her head. "That wasn't my best. If it was my best I would have sung the entire song. This was my worst. I've failed you and I'm so sorry! "I'VE FAILED ALL OF YOU!"

"No, Baby, you didn't fail any of us. It's ok." Finn soothed.

"You've been so supportive of me, and I let you down. I'm so sorry!"

"You didn't let any of us down, Rachel. You choked, it happens to all of us at least once."

"Yeah, well, it's never going to happen to me again…"

"That's my girl." Finn said before she could finish.

Rachel nodded and wiped her eyes. "It's never going to happen to me again because I'm never singing again, for as long as I live."

With that Rachel stood up and walked away, leaving everyone standing there in shock. She wasn't serious…was she?

Little did they know, she was very serious.

A/N this was just to see if anyone is interested. Coming chapters will be longer if you want them. So please just let me know what you think and if I should continue.