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Rey had always been nobody. Nobody and nothing. Her childhood constantly reminded her that. Her life was a reminder of that. Rey had always been the poor orphan girl and that's all she was ever expected to be. Everyone expected that the greatest achievement in her life would be to no die alone, covered in old alcohol and surrounded by broken bottles.
Nothing. Nobody. That's all that had been expected of her. It didn't take long until that's all that she expected of herself.
Nobody. Nothing. Lost in a place nobody had ever heard of and where nobody wanted to know. Surrounded by the worst kind of people.
When she was a child, each night haunted her with nightmares about her future. Where she would go. Who she would be. Rey never wanted to be like any of the people she knew. One day, she decided she decided she wouldn't. Rey decided to change her fate.
So she left.
Rey didn't go far, she didn't dare to. She had the money to go far, not a lot, but enough that she could've gone to the other side of the country. But she didn't. An invisible tether tied her to the town she once called home and as much as she wanted to cut it, she couldn't.
At least she was away. The grass was a bit greener and more flowers grew but she saw desperate looks in strangers eyes as she passed them and she knew that at its core, this town was no better than the last. As long as it was far enough away from everyone she had ever known, it was enough. Far away from the reminder of who she was.
This was a time to make a new start. To be a new person; a better person. Everything was going to be better. Rey had hope.
As she walked into the new town she would soon call home, Rey walked past the window of a shop and out of the corner of her eye she saw something strange. Something she'd seen before but had never owned.
So Rey walked into the store and bought her first camera.