#dew demerez

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Rina definitely-not-a-werewolf Talbot

Dew and Mo's house Rina is eating a raw steak in the kitchen, Anna is also in the kitchen, Jules is laying across Mari's lap in the living room, Mo and Dew are on the couch Mo: Are you sure that's safe to eat raw? Anna: Rina's got a…Don't say werewolf, don't say werewolf.. high tolerance to raw meat sheepish grin, Mo stares for a bit, waiting for a better excuse, then shrugs Mari: I mean, steak tartare is a thing, and that uses raw steak Jules: don't you like cook that in lemon juice or something? Mo: that's ceviche Mari: and that's shrimp Jules: Oh returns to her phone Mo: Hey Rina! Wanna grab a plate and join us in here? note: this isn't too long after they meet Rina, Mo is concerned about accidentally excluding her, as she's noticed Rina gets anxious easily Rina nods, and, grabbing a plate -has she just been eating out of the package the whole time?- she and Anna come to the living room, joining Mo and Dew on the couch

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Story 1 (incomplete)

"Mo! Come on, you're gonna be late for school!" Drake Murphy yelled up the stairs, crossing his arms impatiently. "Be there in a second!" Mo attempted to put on her left shoe, stuff the last few papers in her backpack, and finish eating her toast all at the same time, nearly falling down the stairs in the process. She recovered quickly, and, finally pulling on her shoe, rushed down the stairs, toast in mouth, papers stuffed into the backpack. Drake sighed, and he and Mo finally got into the station wagon. As he started the car, he sighed again. "You know, stuffing your papers into your bag like that wrinkles them up and makes the teacher think you don't care." Ignoring Mo's muttered "yeah, you've only told me a million times. " , he continued. "Anyway, what happened to those folders I gave you?" Mo opened her backpack, searching. "They're in here somewhere…" Drake sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Mo, I gave you those for a reason." "I know, I know…" In the backseat, Mo's sister Grayson sighed. "Oh great, another lecture from Dad about impressing your teachers." Drake turned to give Gray a Look™, narrowly avoiding a pedestrian. " Listen, impressing your teachers is important." As the girls groaned and facepalmed in unison, Drake continued "You girls both need to be thinking of the future," he paused to poke Mo, who raised an eyebrow. ", especially you. Listen, when I was your age…" And Drake lectured them about impressing teachers etc. etc., the whole way to the school, both sisters sighing and thinking "why me?"

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Later, like 3rd period or something IDK

"So, the next thing I knew, Dickie was nearly beating down the door to my English class, asking if I was okay!" Marigold Wallace laughed as she sat down next to Mo Murphy, shaking her head. Mo could only shoot her a confused look, as Julia Douglas sat on the other side of her, shaking her head. "Dude, that's so controlling." Mari frowned. "No, it's not! Dickie's just trying to look after me, you know?" "Yeah, but is that his job?" Jules popped a piece of gum in her mouth, snapping it. Mari glared at her, nearly jumping out of her chair. "YEAH-" Mo put up a hand, "Hey, whoa, what the heck are y'all talking about?" She turned to Mari. "Are you okay?" Mari rolled her eyes and straightened her glasses. "Yeah, I'm fine. Dickie called me while I was in the bathroom during yesterday's English class and heard Brittany bawling over some guy again. He thought it was me, and nearly gave Mrs. Johnson a heart attack banging on the door!" Mo looked incredulous. "So what did you say??" Mari snickered. " Of course, I told him it was all some boy's fault!" They all laughed at that that, Mo saying, "Are you serious?" Mari laughed even harder. "No! I told him it was Brittany, but he didn't believe me!" But by that point, they had all lost it and giggled the rest of the way through Ms. Thompson's boring lecture on mathematical formulas. Every time they would settle down, one of them would pretend to bang on a desk or something, and they would giggle again.

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5th or 6th period, afternoon, after lunch Dickie, Mo, and Mari all have the same science class, advanced biology. Dickie got there early, as he always does. Mo and Mari came in right before the bell rang, as they always do, and sat on either side of Dickie. Dickie sighed at them pointedly, in a way that clearly said, "Why are you like this?" Mo snickered at that. "Dude, you sound like my dad" Mari ignored both of them and pulled out her notebook. "Hey Dickie, you have your license with you, right?" Dickie raised an eyebrow. "Mare, I drove you here." "I know" She pulled out another paper from her bag, and Dickie sighed " What happened to those folders you have?" Mari held up folders with more papers in them. "Right here. Anyway, can you pleeease drive us to the Tasty Freeze after school?" She batted her eyelashes, as if her brother would actually think that they were innocently asking. Mo did too, figuring it was worth a try. Dickie immediately saw through them both. "No. Besides, maybe I have other things to do after school, like a date or something. " Both girls looked at him in shock. Mari blinked. "You have a date?!?" Dickie sighed once more. "Well, no, but I could have one!" Mo snorted, and Dickie glared at her. Mari pouted. "Oh, c'mon Dickie!" Dickie sighed. "Don't you have homework to do or something?" Mari smiled. "Nope, I did it during study hall!" Dickie raised an eyebrow. "Really? Then what's that?" He pointed to a loose paper that clearly said "Algebra Homework 9/21" Mari shoved the paper in her backpack, and Dickie winced slightly. "Look, life's not always about homework and studying you know!" She exclaimed in annoyance. Dickie sighed. "I know that!" Mari stared at him hard. "Do you? It seems like all you ever do these days is study or lecture me about studying." She slammed her binder on the desk, startling a nearby student. Mo looked on awkwardly, wondering if she could coerce Dew's dad into driving them instead. Dickie glared at his sister. "Look, Mari, you've gotta think of your future. If you want to get into a good college-" Mari cut him off angrily. "Dickie. I am a sophomore. I have two more years to worry about college, if I even go." Mo raised her eyebrows. Not going to college? Is that even an option? Dickie opened his mouth to retort, but Mrs. Tamarson walked in the classroom at that moment, and started the class.

Mo kept wondering, however. Did she have to go to college? Did she even want to? She wasn't sure about it.

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After school Mo, Hector, Dew and Lou had had a tradition for the past two years; every Thursday evening, as soon as they can escape their respective households, they meet in their semi-secret clubhouse in the empty yard between their houses. That's where they were now, and Mo was still wondering.

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IDK what to call this scene

There are times when Hector reminds Mo of a used car salesman, trying to sell her on whatever scheme he had planned. This is one of those times, she thought as Hue put his arm around her, waving the other one around as if painting a picture of the scheme he was talking about. "Picture it Mo. By the end of it all, we'll be rich." Mo pretended to sip her drink to keep from laughing. "Hec, man, we are rich, technically." "Yeah, but we'll be richer. Besides, gotta pay for that wedding somehow, eh?" He elbowed Mo jokingly, nearly making her spill her drink. She moved his arm off of her, laughing. "Touche bro. Still not doing it though." She said, looking for her fiancé in the crowd of people. "Aw, come on!" Mo laughed. "No way!" Hector scoffed. "Fine, I'll find someone who *will* go along with this." He walked off to do exactly that as Mo rolled her eyes. Dew came up to her around that time, glancing at Hec as he passed by. Raising his eyebrows, he asked,"What's up with him?" Mo sighed. "Oh, the usual." Dew chuckled. "Oh God. I don't want to know, do I?" Mo shook her head, sipping her drink.

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Book Characters/ context part 1

HS Era:

Molly Murphy is a 15-year-old who has been given to her dad 2 years ago. She's currently in high school, trying to juggle homework, friends, etc., alongside finding out that her dad is a superhero and adjusting to a whole new life. She is very prone to getting into trouble, but is a good kid on the inside. She's very lively, and everything is either the best or the worst thing to ever happen to her.

enter love interest. Deuteronomy (Dew) Demerez is one of a set of triplets that go to her school. He's very smart, and sort of the calm to Mo's storm. He often gets pulled into her schemes, and will be the one to get her out of trouble a lot of times. He also is a secret romantic, writing love poetry in secret. Dew is very good with words and can talk his way out of (or into) just about anything. Eventually, they start dating, and she gets to know Dew and his brothers and his dad, like family.

There's Hector, who's very cocky, and thinks he can do what he wants. This only works up to a certain point, which he'll push every time. His intentions are (almost) always a way to help either himself or his brothers. Also, he's surprisingly good with money despite hardly ever having it.

There's Louis, aka Lou, who is spacey AF to the point where other people often think he's high, but that's Just How He Is. He's got a heart of gold, though, and is the most likely to help someone out.

Then there's Don, the boy's father. He's got the style of your typical dad (i.e., white New Balances, Hawaiian shirts, etc.) and is like a second (third?) dad to Mo. He's sensitive, caring, and gentle but also can be strict when he needs to be. He's raising the boys on his own, but he's doing his best and honestly doing a great job.

Speaking of dads, Drake Murphy is Mo's and her little sister's. Grayson, aka Gray, stayed with her dad her whole life , and she's now 11. Drake tries his best to keep up with both her and Mo, but the stress of going from going from 1 to 2 kids over 2 years takes its toll sometimes. He is a very loving dad, though, if a bit high-strung. He's also protective, almost to a smothering extent, but can be persuaded to back off occasionally.

Levi Palmer, Drake's best friend, helps out a lot. He's a relaxed, goofy guy who's almost the opposite of Drake, but they get along great. He's very level-headed and often ends up as the mediator when fights do happen. He's also a pilot and loves airplanes and flying. He teaches Mo how to fly an airplane before she can even drive, much to Drake's chagrin.

Gray is Mo's younger sister. She's a feisty, tomboy of a eleven-year-old with the biggest heart and the biggest mouth out of everyone. She loves sports, animals, her dad, and her sister.

Mo's classmates /other characters.

Julia Douglas is one of Mo's best friends. She's very outgoing, rebellious, and seemingly super confident, but on the inside is very worried that she's doing something wrong. She has a huge family, mostly friends of her dads that she calls aunts/uncles. (One of which marries her dad later on). Her dad and most of her aunts/uncles are actors, and Julia feels like she needs to follow in their footsteps. However, once she expressed a desire to do something besides acting, her dad threw a hissy fit, which started an arguement that ended with him telling Jules that she was getting ""too rebellious". Jules' response was "Oh really?" and then to start listening to punk music, dye her hair, and generally just do minor things to give her dad a heart attack once a week. So, as a comprimise, Jules was allowed to go to public high school. She still hasn't given up the punk "phase", and appears to genuinely like it, much to her dad's dismay. But also there are people like Beau Baker (aka "B.B") and Peter Perry ("Pete") who will help her and her dad through whatever happens. Also, her father Daniell ("Dan" or "Danni"), and his best friend (Pete) are dating at this point. Dialogue: Julia: "On a scale of one to ten, how bad would it be if-" B.B.: "At least a twenty."

Julia: hmm. *starts to do it anyway*

B.B. : don't even think about it A comparison: Drake: prove to me that you can be responsible with this 2001 Nokia before I even think about getting you a smartphone. Vs. Danni: here's an iPhone 10 (or whatever's newest) go nuts, kid.

Marigold Wallace (or Mari) is another one of Mo's best friends. Her older brother Dickie goes to the same school as them and is super protective of his little sis. Mari is very annoyed by Dickie, but at home, they get along pretty well. She's also kinda annoyed by Julia, as Mari's more of a nerdy, almost honor student type, and Julia's more of a rebellious skater kid type. They're still best friends though, much to the amusement/bewilderment of Mo.

Anna Sullivan ("Anne") is one of Mo's classmates. She's often involved in schemes with her brothers, and is very smart. She is easily manipulated, usually by Aaron. She has 3 little brothers, Aaron, Shiloh, and Tyler, which are 3 years younger than her. They go to school with Gray.

Dickie Wallace is in the grade ahead of Mari. He's super stressed about getting into a good college, etc, and seems kinda upset that Mari doesn't seem to be as concerned as he is when it comes to, well, anything. He's super rule-following but secretly kinda welcomes Mari and her friends' "rebellious behavior" that he occasionally gets dragged into (aka 2 am Taco Bell runs because he's the only one that has a car). He mellows out a little after a while, partially due to their dad talking with him, telling him to chill. Turns out, the main reason he's so worried about Mari is that he knows that due to {circumstances I haven't figured out yet} he's probably not going to be able to go to college(realized somewhere at the beginning of the 1st book), so he desperately wants Mari to succeed where he can't. Mari, meanwhile, isn't even sure she wants to go to college but feels so pressured that she ends up going anyway.

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2nd era: . Mari comes home from college (either halfway through or with her degree) and has dropped out, because she doesn't feel like it fits her. . also discovers that Julia, now an actress, now has three adopted siblings (technically her uncle B.B. adopted them, but she's so close to them that they're practically her siblings) that she carts almost everywhere. When she's not with them, people are forever calling/contacting her to come to get them out of their hair. She loves it and them. She's kinda like an "enabler" (or at least that's what people call her lol) to them. She gave up acting for a while, but with her siblings coming from an acting background, she ended up going back to it. She's kind of mellowed out, is now a lot more chill, and is a lot more comfortable with herself.

. Logan Walter ("Lo") is 13 years old, and a sarcastic little you know what. He loves learning about things, especially history, and likes to make up songs to teach his younger siblings things. Julia says she'd be lying if some of those songs didn't teach her a few things too. She'd never tell him that though, he'd just try to sing to her 24/7 and she doesn't think she could handle that.

James Walter ("Jamie") is 11 years old, and the sweetest one of the three. He's also super spacey, and very gullible. He also is always eating random things or trying to, and anytime he's around, you'll always hear someone say, "Jamie, take that out of your mouth". Usually, it's Julia.

Diana Leeann Walter ("Dee") is only 9 years old, but you'd swear she was a teenager from the way she talks. ("Call me Dee-Dee, and you die") Most people are split about whether she got her sassiness from Julia or Logan, but everyone agrees that she's cute. She knows this too with an arrogance that only little kids can get away with. She can butter up anyone and everyone, especially adults. . Mo is now working security for one of the richest men in the city with Finnley Carter ("Finn"), the man who knew her parents well and looked after her a lot as a kid. Turns out, they both moonlight as superheroes. How did she get this job? Well, turns out, that this rich man is Samuel McMiller, Dew's great uncle. He knows about Mo's secret identity and was impressed by Mo's talents, (plus it helped that Finn, already his security man, and Dew, his nephew, talked Mo up a lot), and decided to give Mo a shot. Also, Mo and Dew get engaged and later married. Dew is Samuel's assistant/protege

Samuel McMiller is Hector, Dew, Lou's great uncle, and Don's uncle. As stated above, he's one of the richest (if not the richest) men in the world, and very much has the personality of an old miser to an outsider, but has a heart of gold, and loves to go on (and drag his family on) international/global adventures. He's very protective of his money, but even more protective of his family, or at least Hector, Dew, Lou, and Mo. Don and Samuel's relationship is rocky, to say the least. He sees Don as a man who hasn't lived up to his potential, and Don sees Samuel as an old miser who doesn't seem to care about anybody. Slowly, they've begun to set aside their disagreements "for the kids".

Speaking of adventures, a lot of times these pop up under the guise of checking out some international/global property he has either invested in/bought or is thinking about doing so. So he calls up Mo ("I'm going to need someone from security out there in case something happens, you're the only one I fully trust" etc), Dew ("Lad, if you're going to take over for me, you'll have to learn how to {insert applicable thing- somehow he always comes up with at least one}"), and whoever else he feels like (usually at least Don, Lou, and Hector), tells Levi (who has taken on a job as Samuel's pilot) to fire up his engines, and they're off on a presumably safe voyage. However, between the six of them, either someone does something to royally mess up a major thing, or something unrelated happens but they investigate anyway. By the time all's said and done, they're all exhausted and head off home. Mo always has the best stories to tell Mari, Anna, and Julia (and whoever else will listen) when they get back. Mari and Julia have each been on exactly one trip with them, and swear they have no idea how Mo handles them.

Finnley Carter is Mo's mentor, and is like a third (fourth??) dad. It's unclear what happened between him and Mo's mother, but it is clear he still wants to be a part of her life. Mo at first was wary of this, but after a while, is okay with him being there, especially when she finds out about him being a hero. That was when she was 14. Nowadays, he's like family to her and vice versa. Goofy, dorky, and a klutz, he doesn't seem like the hero type, but he can be downright scary if he has to be. He's got a kind heart and an incredible mind. He was originally hired as an accountant for Samuel and can count at the speed of light. He likes to joke that he's won every "guess the amount of _ in the jar " contest in the state.

Drake and Finn have a complicated relationship. At first, their personalities majorly clashed, and they were constantly arguing. Now, they've mellowed out, thanks to time, patience, and "the kids" (Mo and Gray, possibly Levi)

Gage Grant (G.G.) is Don's cousin, and, according to rumor, is the luckiest guy in town. Things, opportunities, and especially money seem to fall in his lap, without him having to do hardly a thing. He seems to be snobbish about it, which has distanced him from the rest of the family. In reality, he is deeply jealous of Don, who has a family, is close to Uncle Samuel (sort of), and seemingly has the whole white-picket-fence dream that G.G. has wanted his whole life. Don, meanwhile, thinks that G.G. is a snob, and is jealous that he never had to work for a thing.

Efry Dalesome is Don and G.G.'s other cousin. He's very oblivious, but very adventurous and often ends up in trouble because of it. Often, Don or G.G. will be dragged into his shenanigans as well. Efry has a heart of gold though, and always tries to make up for his mistakes. He's very well-loved by the family.

Gabriel Griffin is the city's greatest inventor. He and Bruce team up quite a lot, and he frequently makes inventions for Samuel McMiller. He and Don are also good friends, and Mo, Dew, Hector, and Lou all look up to him. He's quite absent-minded, and also has a heart of gold.

Era 3: Julia and her family get into various shenanigans. Also; a wedding happens eventually

in addition to Lo, Jamie, and Dee, several other family members can be developed more in this book

the main story here is that Julia's dad and her uncle Pete are getting married. The story would be centered loosely around Julia's feelings about it, as well as the Sibs'.

also, at some point after this, Jules and Mari get married .

B.B. is the Sibs' (Logan, Jamie, and Dee) father. He's clever, sarcastic, and is great with kids (which is great, considering he now has 3 of them). He was who Jules went to about half the time with any problem she had. Heck, sometimes she'd even just come over to nap. You'd think that would change as she got older, and as the Sibs entered the picture, but she only came over more, to the point that people often joked about Jules living there. B.B. and Danni are long-time friends, having met at the same audition way back when. B.B. is just about the only person who can tell Danni off (that he'll listen to anyway).

Peter Perry is the other person who can tell Danni off since he's Danni's fiancé/eventual husband. He's very down-to-earth, and a sweet, caring soul. He's the other person Jules can turn to, and often does, with just about anything. He probably knows more about her than anyone. Pete and Danni have been dating for a few years now, but they've been friends for longer than B.B and Danni. They're very close and have moved in together. He gave Jules the place he was living in, much to Jules' happiness.

Daniell Douglas (Danni) is Julia's father. He's very egotistical, although that side of him has seemed to mellow a little since he started dating Pete. He's still very oblivious though and doesn't always realize when he hurts Julia's feelings. He also doesn't have a lot of common sense, and, while Julia used to hate it as a teen, she thinks some of the stuff he does is hilarious now. He can be caring when he wants to be and does love Jules in his own, weird way.

Somewhere in this, Jules and Mari realize they're in love with each other. Everyone else already knew it years ago.