A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! I ONLY OWN THIS PLOT! I had such an amazing turn out for this story. Thank you everyone so much for all your reviews and alerts and favorites. I'm so excited to write this for you :) Here is the next chapter, parts are taken from the episode I DO NOT OWN THEM! Please enjoy::

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.

"She isn't serious…is she?" Finn asked.

"I hope not." Kurt answered. "I can't picture Rachel not singing anymore. I mean…it's who she is."

"I know, she's got the best voice of anyone I've ever heard." Blaine said.

"I agree with you guys, but you've got to be easy with Rachel right now. If you push her back onto the stage before she is ready you'll do more harm than good. It's going to take Rachel some time to get over this, so just be easy with her. I'm sure she'll sing again. We just need to give her time."

The boys nodded but deep down Finn knew Rachel wasn't going to get over this anytime soon.

Later that night Finn went over to Rachel's house. He knocked on the door and her father's answered.

"Finn, it's good to see you." Leroy said.

"You as well Sir, how is Rachel?"

"She didn't eat her dinner; she's locked herself in her bedroom and won't come out. She won't let us in either."

"Would you mind if I tried?"

"No, please do."

Finn raced up the stairs to Rachel's room. He almost couldn't find it, because the sparking star on her front door that used to have her name on it was gone. He knocked on the door. "Rachel? Baby, it's me are you in there?"

All he heard was grunting and screaming and lots of thudding. He tried the door and he was unlocked. He slowly opened it and peeked his head inside. Rachel was holding a black trash bag filled with stuff. He watched as Rachel threw all her trophies, ribbons, anything that reminded her of singing she threw into that bag, angrily. Fin rushed over to her and struggled to pull the bag from her. "Rachel, stop it! Let go!" he told her.

"NO! YOU LET GO!" she screamed.

"Rachel, don't do this. You're going to regret getting rid of this stuff."

"No, I won't! It's just a painful reminder that I'm never going to be a star."

Her tears were falling and she was quickly losing her grip on the bag.

"You will be a star, one day, Rachel; you're going to be a star."

"No, I won't. I'll never be a star." She cried.

She let go of the bag and just started to cry again. Finn took her into his arms and just held her as she cried into him. She was so heartbroken and it killed Finn to see her like this. She was normally so happy and perky, no because of one mistake she was a ball of tears. Finn just hoped there was something he could do to help her, anything to make her smile again…yet he couldn't think of anything.

Finn spent the night there comforting Rachel, she hardly slept that night and when she did sleep it was anything but peacefully.

The next day Rachel spent the entire day at the house. She couldn't face school and all the whispers and stares she'd get. She couldn't face the Glee kids after what happen. They would mock her more than anyone.

She had been able to convince Finn to go and leave her alone for the day. Her father's stayed home from work to be with Rachel and comfort her. They tried everything they could think of and yet, nothing they did cheered Rachel up or even made her smile. They tried asking her to sing with them but she refused and locked herself in her bedroom.

That night she had another restless night sleep, with haunting nightmares of her future growing up alone, and working at a drive thru somewhere, while all her friends became big stars.

She decided the next day to go to school. The only reason was to get away from her fathers who were trying way too hard to cheer her up, and force her to sing again, so school was her only escape.

Finally, escaping all the whispers and stares, she made it to her locker. Kurt came over to her first and tried to make her feel better by calling the judge names and tell her that they should have give her another chance, but of course they had. Kurt went on to talk about how they'd give her a shot because of her amazing opening but she couldn't stand it anymore. She had to stop him.

"Kurt, I appreciate what you're trying to do, but we both know what happen. I had my chance and I choked. I choked on a song I've been singing my entire life. There is no one to blame but myself. You were amazing and you and Finn are going to do amazing in New York."

"You're going to come too."

Rachel just shook her head.

"Of course you're coming, even if you don't get into NYADA…" she cut him off.

"Can we please not talk about this anymore, please? I just…I haven't slept in two days and I really tired of talking about it"

"Ok," Kurt nodded. He pulled her into a hug. "I love you, Rachel Berry."

"I love you too."

They pulled away and Kurt walked off. Rachel sighed and forced back tears as she closed her locker. Why had she come back? Mocking was bad, but the pity is everyone's faces made her want to throw up. It wasn't fair. Finn walked over to her next.

"Hey." He said gently. He didn't pity her…well he did but he didn't show it. He knew it would upset her more.

"Hi. Please, don't talk about what happen…please." She begged in a whimper.

"Oh, Rachel, I'd never say anything to hurt you. Mr. Schue talked with the kids in Glee club too. They know not to say anything."

"Great, did they all laugh at me when he told them?"

"No, Rachel, they'd never laugh at you."

"They spent almost three years laughing at me and mocking me. This is the perfect chance for them to hit me, while I'm already down."

"Rachel, listen to me, in Glee club we're a family and we love you. We all hate that you're hurting and all of us just want to see you get better."

Rachel just sighed and nodded. She didn't believe him but she really was tired of talking about this.

Finn took her hand and together they made their way to the music room. Everyone was talking and laughing; when Rachel walked in they all stopped and looked to her. Normally, Rachel would have loved all eyes on her, but now it just made her feel uncomfortable. "Stop!" she cried out and hid behind Finn.

"All right guys, I want all your eyes up here." Will told the kids getting their attention off Rachel.

Everyone looked to him as Finn and Rachel sat down, Rachel cuddled close into Finn's side, for once in her life feeling shy and scared. Finn held her close making sure she felt loved and safe.

"All right, so, I've been thinking of the prefect song for you guys to sing at my wedding and I think I found the perfect one but…there is a solo in it."

Kurt, Santana, and Mercedes all raised their hands in hopes of getting picked for the solo.

"I think Rachel is perfect for this one, how about it, Rachel? Want to give it a try?"

"Actually, Mr. Schue, I think one of the others would be better for that solo. If you give it to me you'll just be let down. Give it to someone else, please. I don't want it."

The entire room went silent. A pencil could drop to the floor and it would sound like a sonic boom. Never in the entire New Directions history did Rachel ever give up a solo, she normally fought to get them all and now she was handing them back like they were nothing. That's when everyone knew, this wasn't the same Rachel Berry they once knew, and they honestly weren't sure if they'd ever see the old Rachel Berry again.

"What about a duet, Mr. Schue, Rachel and I can do it together." Finn said hoping singing with him would give her some small comfort.

Rachel shook her head. "I'd let you down, Finn. If you want to do a duet, do it with Quinn. She'll be better than I will."

Will sighed and looked to Kurt. "Do you want the solo?"

Kurt sighed and nodded. He felt guilty saying yes but he did really want it. "Ok, it's yours."

"Mr. Schue, May I please be excused from class. I don't feel well." Rachel spoke softly.

"Sure, why don't you go lay down in the nurse's office."

Rachel nodded. She stood up and left the class room. Everyone sighed.

"I'm sorry to get everyone's hopes up but there is no solo, I just wanted to see if getting a solo would cheer Rachel up." Will said.

Everyone nodded in understanding.

"I can't believe I'm going to say this but…I actually miss the old Rachel." Santana said.

"Me too." Quinn nodded.

"We all do, but trust me when I say, DO NOT push her. When she is ready she'll come back to the stage. But if we push before she is ready it's going to do more harm than good."

"This wasn't supposed to happen. Rachel and I were both supposed to get in to NYADA." Kurt said.

"Then she choked and now…I don't know if she'll ever sing…"

"Wait, stop, you guys hear that?" Finn said suddenly.

Everyone was quiet and they all heard faint sound of someone singing "Cry" by Kelly Clarkson in the hallway. They knew that voice anywhere. Will chuckled. "Looks like she's never going to stop singing. She'll just stop singing in front of others."

"Like stage fright. Maybe if we can help her overcome that she'll be back to her normal self." Kurt said.

"Maybe, but remember, slowly and gently you don't want to scare her from singing for good." Will warned.

"We can do it, Mr. Schue. We have to. Rachel needs us." Finn said.

Will just nodded. He honestly didn't know if they were making the right choice. He believed she'd come back all on her own. He just hoped their "help" didn't push Rachel further into her shell.

After school Finn took Rachel back to his house with him and Kurt. They all did their homework together. They had music playing in the background and every now and then they'd hear Rachel whisper singing the words, but whenever they'd look to her she'd stop right away, like she had been caught doing something bad.

"You know, Rach, you can sing in front of us. You don't need to be scared by it or ashamed. We love your voice." Finn told her.

Rachel shrugged. "I don't want to sing."

"Yes you do, we can hear you singing along with the music. You want to sing you just don't want to admit it." Kurt said.

Rachel shook her head. "I don't want to sing, Kurt, not now, not ever again."

"I don't believe you. Rachel, you were singing before you even learned to speak a whole sentence. It's in your blood, it's who you are and like it or not you will sing again."

"Kurt, easy." Finn said.

"You can't force me, Kurt."

"You're right, I can't. But somebody can."

"Yeah who?"

"Barbara."

Rachel scoffed. "Kurt, I messed up one of her songs in one of the worst ways possible. She'd be so ashamed of me and she'd never want me to sing again."

"You don't know that."

"I do, actually, now can we please drop this. I'm tired of talking about it."

"Oh course, hey, what did you get for number 4 I'm really stuck." Finn said.

Rachel giggled. "The answer is four, Finn."

"Thank you!" Finn laughed. He wrote the answer down in his book and smiled. He hadn't planned on making Rachel laugh but he was glad he had. He wanted to hear more of it…but how?

He suddenly remembered them singing that song about smiling and how they ended up in a tickle fight. He smirked and looked to Rachel; she was working on a math problem when he decided to poke her in the side. She jumped and squealed. He chuckled. "Is somebody ticklish?"

"Finn, you know I'm ticklish there."

"Yeah, but what about here?" he gave her knee a squeeze and she giggled and pushed his hand away.

"Finn, stop, I have to get this done. I need to get good grades if I want to graduate and get into a good collage. At this rate I'll be working as a janitor at our school."

"Rachel you're going to get into amazing school, I promise and you'll be the biggest star around."

Rachel just shook her head. "No, I won't. You're just saying that because you're my boyfriend and it's your job to make me feel better."

"That's not true, well I didn't day that because I'm your boyfriend. I said it because it's the truth. But you are right, as your boyfriend it's my job to make you feel better."

"So?"

"So…THIS!" he started to tickle her sides and she instantly started to giggle.

"No, Finn stop."

"Nope, you haven't laughed in almost three days, that's too long and you need to make up for lost time."

Rachel giggled and squirmed around on the bed. "Stop!"

Finn laughed but stopped. He kissed her forehead. "I promise, Rachel, I'll do whatever I can to help you become a star."

Rachel just nodded with a small smile she didn't believe him but didn't want to fight about it so she just agreed. She got back to work on her math.

Finn just smiled. He had gotten her to laugh again, but now the hard part was going to be getting her over her stage fright. But he could do it…couldn't he?'

A/N yay Finchal fluff :D Lol lots more of that to come for all you fluff lovers, but also lots of drama to come too. What do you guys think will happen? Can Finn help her or will Rachel end up as a janitor? Leave me your thoughts in a review.

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