I dream a dream

Rachel glanced around the room and again at the door that lay the path to which direction her life would take. She was auditioning for a role that consisted of what Hollywood deemed a 'triple threat' which consisted of acting singing and dancing. She had been so excited when her manager Terrence Lilith had shown her the role, which he thought would be perfect for her.

It was about a fresh out of high school, girl named Lillian 'Lily' Marks, who dreamed that she would make it big one day. She would go through several things before she would lead her towards her uprise to the big leagues. Her dream in real life, become a broad way star.

She read and re-read the lines she wanted to act today.

I want to be a star one day!

She held her script nervously as she watched the door to heaven open again to let another person walk through the door and towards the exit. Sometimes people would walk out with tears streaming down their faces, shocked to hear that they weren't what they were looking for. And then other times, people would walk out with great beams of light reflecting out of their aura. She definitely wanted to be the former.

"Next" she heard being called in her direction, her eyes flicked over to a middle aged man ushering her in through the doors. He nodded towards her so there was no doubt her had meant her

"Hello I'm Kane West. I am going to give you your first interview before you will do your reading for the part of Lily Marks. This is just protocol so that the process is made more quickly, and we aren't here seeing every Sally, Jane and Carrie in NY hey?" he offered her a chair across from him.

"Hello Mister West. I am Rachel Berry. I have just graduated from Tisch University as one of the honour students" she beamed happily, trying not to toot her own horn, but she had worked her ass off to get to that spot.

"Ah yes. Miss Berry, I have heard tremendous things about you. We were happy to hear that you were going to audition for this part. Burgess had said he had a keen eye that you were headed somewhere big. Even tough-rough Jessor said that you were something else. You had the whole arts department tooting your horn" he stated to her, making her gasped in shock that she had been spoken about by such fantastic people. The real reason she had even wanted to be at Tisch, was so she could be talked by their fine team, and here he was saying all this nice things to her.

"Furthermore, knowing that they wouldn't JUST talk about anyone like that, I would like you to head towards those closed doors at the back of the room"

She nodded and surprised the man by hugging him tightly and gushing her 'thank you at him' again, in all Rachel mode.


She looked around nervously, as she was lead to stand in front of six woman and men.

"This is Rachel Berry. She is a Tisch Honour student, recommended to us by Burgess and Jessor" Mister West introduced her proudly.

"Miss Berry my colleagues, and also some of the people that you will be working. The producer Allen Shaun, director Davidt Chancellor, actress Suzzana Gray, who will also be playing your step-mother, vocal expert Tanja Alexandre and lastly the person who will be playing opposite you…" her eyes stilled on the familiar blue eyes that had breaken her heart all those years ago.

She gasped as she saw who it was. She hadn't seen him since that day he had cracked an egg across her face six years ago. He looked like his usual self, but something more seemed to radiate out of him, as he grinned in her direction, surprised written all across her face.

"Jesse?" she gapped at him.