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This chapter focuses on Artie

Chapter 4-Failed Dancer

His parents often said that Artie had learned to dance before he could walk. As a young boy, he had taken dance classes along with the likes of Rachel, Brittany and Mike. The teacher had often praised him as being the star performer, something that usually led to a Rachel Berry tantrum.

If people ever asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up, Artie's reply was always the same. He wanted to be a dancer. In those days, his passion to make it as a professional dancer one day had been equally as strong as Rachel's burning need to achieve fame.

He was confident in his abilities and the trophies he'd won for competitions proved that he had talent and skill. Performing to an audience wasn't for everybody. At his first dance competition, Artie distinctly remembered some of the other dancers forgetting the choreography half way through or refusing to go on stage. Some burst into tears and others puked. Not Artie though, he thrived on showing off his movement to the audience.

For a long time, his parents and dance instructors truly believed that if he continued to dance, then he could make it to the big time one day. Artie didn't consider it as a possibility but as an inevitability. He was so sure his dreams to be a dancer would come true.

He was mistaken. Being in the car crash destroyed his hopes and dreams of ever being a dancer. Doomed to spend the remainder of his life in a wheelchair, the mobility of his legs snatched away from him, Artie knew his time for dancing had passed him by.

He wanted to be a dancer

He wanted to perform on stage

He wanted to move to music

Right from an early age.

He wanted to be a star

He wanted glory and fame

He wanted to dance forever

And have strangers know his name.

He definitely had the passion

He definitely had the skill

He definitely had the courage

And of course he had the will.

He definitely had the potential

He definitely had the drive

He definitely had the talent

But his legs have lost all life.

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