A/N at bottom. Enjoy! OH! And by the way, Monty is Lyell's father. It says so in the family tree. So I figured I'll use him, even if he is literally never (as far as I know of) mentioned in the books. Oh, and yes, this is for the genre challenge, which has officially been posted on my profile.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo or The Chrysalids by John Wyndham.

The Way We Live Our Lives:

Live. Love. Laugh. Smile altogether. One for all. All for one. Because we're family and because that's just the way we live our lives.

The Bones/Joneses

Laugh

Charlie is only three at the time, and she's tearful and sad and bitter and all these other words he doesn't yet know or understand, but he thinks his mother's laugh is the prettiest thing he's ever heard.

Vitamin

Amy is smiling as her son attempts to be grown-up when the six-year-old tells her he took his vitamins on his own… even though she knows her mother helped him.

Tintinnabulation

"Mommy, I'm going to learn this word for my spelling test!"

Crowbar

Charlie is shocked when Grizelda tells the 18-year-old she has a crowbar hidden in the attic, and is even more so (as well as disgusted and horrified) when she also tells him to use it to end her misery.

Apple

Lyell knows his wife better than the back of his hand, so he knows how she'll react to the mess that previously was the kitchen when he tries to make apple pie.

Run

Maisie would never admit it, but she could beat anyone and everyone in her family when it came to a race.

Wing

Monty knows the second the plane is hit that he's not going to watch his year-old son grow up.

Moonlight

After Lyell kisses Amy for the first time, he swears her eyes are brighter than the moon.

Curly

'He's only seven,' is the only reason Amy finds plausible as to why her son would ask her why a pig's tail is shaped the way it is.

Panting

She'd never admit it, but the first time Grizelda set eyes on Monty, she's, almost literally, breathless.

Success

Grizelda knows that there is always a slight chance that the Bloor's and anyone on their side might win and every night, she hopes they won't.

Note

They're in the same college (even though she's just starting and he's just staying another year for no known reason) and just before he slips her a piece of paper, Amy can't help but think Lyell Bone's the most beautiful boy she's ever seen.

Extreme

Monty's a lot more fun-loving than he looks, so it doesn't surprise Grizelda when he doesn't realize when he goes too far.

Shower

It's drizzling outside and Amy's dancing underneath the sky and Lyell's trying to remember if he's ever seen her more beautiful.

Piano

He feels as if he's making his father proud when he performs (for the first time ever) in front of the school and it's confirmed when he sees him smiling brighter than the stars.

Hat

Maisie hates seeing her daughter heartbroken, which is why she's so happy when she sees Amy, a year after her husband's death, trying on all the headwear that had been in the attic.

Joint

His parents are connected in a way that Charlie just can't describe.

Chew

He can't help but laugh when his wife tells him "Lyell, there's a step in between putting the food in your mouth and swallowing."

Monocle

Grizelda is trying not to cry when her six-year-old son finds her father-in-law's eyeglass and tells him to keep it and never break it and is in the same position when she finds it thirty-six years later in the exact same condition.

Persephone

Grizelda is reading Greek myths when she begins to weep over how similar the story she's reading is to real life, and how some girl just stole her son away.

Bandanna

Maisie laughs at a picture of her son-in-law when he's twenty-four and attempting to look like a biker.

Calculus

Amy hates math, and gives her thanks to God when she discovers her father doesn't.

Striped

Maisie smiles at her two-year-old grandson's fascination at the different colours going up on his room walls.

Foghorn

Amy is in hysterics when she finds out Lyell is dead, which is the only way to justify her running into the street and calling out for him in the mist.

Wash

No matter how hard he soaps, scrubs, and tries, the stain of his father's blood on the shirt will never (mentally) go away.

Patterned

There are a million different ones to choose from for the new curtains, so Amy decides to go with her mother's opinion.

Dress

She made it in sewing class, he knows, and it's extremely precious to her, which is exactly why he doesn't want to ruin it, so Lyell decides to keep himself in check for one night.

Barking

The house doesn't know who's louder, the neighbour's dog or Grizelda yelling for someone to tell it shut up.

Sleep

They decide to camp out in the backyard one night, and as Charlie lays awake, he's grateful he didn't inherit his father's snoring habit.

Cucumber

Amy is four and her parents find it comical to watch her suspicious glare turn into pure glee as she puts the vegetable into her mouth.

Steel

When Charlie asks if steel is any modified version of iron, would messing up the clothes iron make it steel, his reply is "You can try and find out, but just remember, both our heads are on the line at the expense of your mother if you do."

Lovely

At eight, he's the most charming man Amy's ever met (so far), and she also wonders if she's biased because he's her father.

Magnet

Lyell's ten and learning about magnetic pull and he can't help wondering if that's what brought his parents together.

Empire

They're twenty-three when Monty jokes they could build a whole kingdom together and Grizelda bites her lower lip, trying to get rid of the tempting thoughts that the words bring up.

Twinkling

Lyell knows it's the prospect of eloping and how romantic it is and knowing that her mother is going to kill her when she finds out that makes Amy's eyes almost like stars in the sky.

Bitter

Grizelda and Amy have something in common: whenever they're upset over losing Lyell, they look at Charlie to make the bitterness go away.

Lope

His grandmother is twenty-three years older than his father, which is why Charlie is on the ground laughing at him when everyone but Maisie herself discovers that she runs faster than Lyell.

Icy

Lyell's glare is piercing when both he and Charlie see the store cashier flirting with Amy.

Xylophone

He's five and slamming on the instrument so hard, it hurts her ears, and yet all Grizelda can do is smile.

Potato

Lyell can't believe his mother when Grizelda tells him that his father didn't like potatoes, because he's seven and to him, grown-ups just have to like everything.

Awe-inspiring

Lyell can't help but laugh at Amy's face the first time he plays for her, because the widening of her eyes and the dropping of her jaw is just too funny not to.

Cotton

Some plants were grown for the sole reason of making cotton, and Maisie wishes that her life was that set in stone.

Refreshing

When his father came back, his mother was livelier than ever and to Charlie, it was a welcome change.

Twisted

It's definitely crazy of her, but when Charlie tells her that her husband might still be alive, Amy can't help but believe it, even if it is only a little bit.

Illuminate

Monty swears the first time he saw Grizelda smile, the whole world lit up.

Shallow

Amy can't help but smile as Lyell helps Charlie in the kiddy pool, and keeps a tight grip on the one-year-old boy.

Electricity

She's twenty and he's twenty-five and while they're running out of the building, Amy and Lyell can't help but snicker as they hear the owner of the café scream "Who turned the lights out?"

Wistful

When her husband dies, all Maisie can do is bitterly hope for her daughter and future grand-child/grand-children to not suffer the same kind of life, and seventeen years later, she hates that all her hoping did no good.

Solemn

Charlie laughs at his father as he explains: "Basically here, Sophie is saying," Lyell stops to change his tone of voice to grave "'you are apart of me now and you are closer than family and we must keep this secret together and do you like eggs?'"

Family

Amy knew the second her husband took her in his arms, that her family was finally complete.

A/N: Voila! Chapter 1! Now we have another 16 to go! This is actually going to be a very short-ish story, and is probably going to be very easy for me to update… hopefully. Thank you super-super-duper much to Tassel630 for giving me the list and being able to make this story possible! Big smiles and hugs to you! Especially since I got smarter looking up a few of these words. If anyone else wants to send in a list, I'd be more than happy to take them. I'm going to be taking in 13. Anyway, that's all for now, bye!

~May

P.S. The one for "Solemn" is a reference to The Chrysalids. Who here has read The Chrysalids? I know there are a lot of different points of view on it, and honestly, I liked it.