That morning:
Juleka stood in front of a row of magazines with Marinette and Alya next to her. Marinette paused and smiled shyly when she saw one with Adrian's picture on the cover, but ended up picking up one about fashion. The school had taken them on a trip to a local bookstore to encourage reading, and everyone was having fun browsing, except Chloe who clung to Adrian arm and whispered angrily "What's taking everyone so long!" while tapping her foot.
Adrian pulled away, "Um, Chloe, I'm trying to find a good novel to read. Come on, let's try to look over there". He said and immediately began to walk in the direction he pointed. Chloe grumbled something under her breath, but followed him.
Juleka was shy. Not one of those shy girls that blush when someone says there name and giggles cutely. She liked things popular girls like Chloe absolutely detested; first person shooting games, metal bands, cars, and motorbikes. Even her makeup taste, which to Chloe was what defined a woman, was not the usual red lip gloss and soft pink blush, but black lipstick and purple eyeshadow.
To protect her interests from being attacked, she tried as much as possible to keep them to herself.
But in front of her, the latest issue of her favorite car magazine stared at her. To make it worse, there was only one left. The temptation was too strong. She picked it up and hid it under her arm.
"Students of Collège Françoise Dupont, please be ready to leave in 10 minutes."
"That will be 5 Euros." The cashier said. Juleka pulled the money out of her purse, picked up the bag, her precious magazine in it, and headed towards the exit.
The sides of the door glowed red and an alarm blared in her ears. She dropped the bag in shock, but quickly picked it up again and clutched it to her chest. She looked around her frantically, wondering what had happened.
"Excuse me mademoiselle, could I please see your bag?" a woman wearing the bookstore's employee shirt asked.
Juleka froze. The magazine! She couldn't let anyone see it!
"Hmph". Chloe emerged from the gathering crowd around her. "Why are you holding so tight onto that bag hmm?" She smirked and squinted at her. When Juleka only looked at her, she put her hands on her hips and tilted her head, the smirk glued on her face.
"Well? Theif!" Catching Juleka by surprise, she quickly pulled it from her arms and took out the magazine.
"Eew! What is this?" Her voice getter higher and higher. "Cars? Are you sure you're a girl?"
Juleka's legs went wobbly as Chloe waved the book above her head, smiling. Her horrible smile. If anyone else had smiled like that, it would be friendly at warming. But on Chloe, it was just scary. Juleka wanted to disappear, become air, water, be teleported to another planet, anything. Sabrina snickered behind her, and the tears waited behind her eyes for the next trigger.
"Enough, Chloe." Marinette said from behind her. She approached the blonde head of hate and tried to take the magazine away from her. Where were the adults when you needed them? The teacher was nowhere to be found, the woman from the store was on the phone with someone inside to come and help, and so Juleka was left with Marinette to protect her.
Marinette was shoved to the ground.
"Theif! You thief!" Chloe shrieked.
The woman turned off the phone and another man came running from inside, "Show me the receipt please."
Somehow Marinette was back on her feet and was snatched it back from Chloe as Juleka remained paralyzed, "Here it is!" She pulled it the long piece of paper out of the bag.
"Make sure." Chloe said. "Who knows, maybe it's somebody else's. She could still be a thief. I mean, look at her." She starting scanning her from her toes up, stopped at her eyes, then snickered.
Juleka turned and ran. Tears running down her face.
"You see! She's totally guilty!"
She reached a corner, made a turn, and stopped. Her back against a wall, she cried.
The tears clouded her vision. She didn't see the butterfly hover around her head.
"Hmm? Purple tears?" she thought.
Then her mind went blank.