A/N at the bottom! Enjoy! Btw, Mavra, Floyd, Foster, Frazer, Minette, and Clement aren't OC's… they're just characters in the books that don't have names. Mavra and Minette are Fidelio's sisters; Floyd, Foster, and Frazer are his brother's; and Clement is his dad. (Btw, Foster and Frazer are twins. And from oldest to youngest, in my head, it's Felix, Mavra, Floyd, Fidelio, Foster, Frazer, Minette, and Mimi. It's mostly Fido, Felix, and Mimi, though.)

Disclaimer: I do not own the Charlie Bone series by Jenny Nimmo.


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 Gunns


Laugh

Out of every sound in the house, it is, by far, the sweetest.

Vitamin

Everyone knows the only reason Mimi eats the One-A-Day vitamin is because it's a sour gummy and nobody really minds.

Tintinnabulation

Felix can't tell if the ringing in his head is from while he's playing onstage and the roaring of the crowd, or from after, when he somehow falls headfirst on the floor.

Crowbar

Foster is frantic when he asks his twin what to do with the object.

Apple

Minette giggles at Fidelio's drawing of a pear, and laughs even harder when she discovers it's not.

Run

Everyone knows Frazer Gunn's the fastest kid in fifth grade, and for him, it just isn't enough yet.

Wing

When every one of his children expressed an interest in music, Clement felt like he was almost taking each of them under his wing.

Moonlight

The night Mavra finds out, her smile is brighter than the sky outside.

Curly

It was decidedly quite obvious that curly hair was a trait every Gunn child had to inherit.

Panting

Floyd is speaking a mile a minute and by the time he's done, his siblings aren't surprised he's practically gasping for air.

Success

Chloe can't stop the tears from coming when she receives the letter, because she just knew Fidelio was going to be the one to make a name for himself.

Note

Mimi can't be any prouder when she, out of everyone in her choir, hits the high F, and neither can anyone else in her family.

Extreme

The boys know that they're being drastic, but nobody is allowed to break any of their sister's hearts and get away with it.

Shower

Mimi isn't sure what's more embarrassing; that she forgot her towel, or that she realizes, after she calls out for one of her sisters or her mother to get it, that the only other occupants in her house are her brothers.

Piano

No matter what any of them thought, Chloe was better at it than her husband and any of her children.

Hat

Felix wasn't sure how long he could deal with Mavra's constantly changing mind as to which one was best.

Joint

The second he put the bow to the violin, Fidelio instantly felt as if he and the instrument were one being.

Chew

Out of everyone, Mimi's the most perceptive, so when she meets that girl Fidelio starts to date, Mimi's the only one who knew she was going to chew him up and spit him out.

Monocle

The twins never meant to break it.

Persephone

Fidelio could only glare at the wall when Mimi was turned around and curse at how some myths taught children that it was okay not to eat certain foods so they don't end up tied to Hades and the Underworld.

Bandanna

It's a gift from both Foster and Frazer and they only hope Minette will find some use for it, because with her, they could never be so sure.

Calculus

Fidelio can't help but rub in that he's better at math than his older siblings.

Striped

The first time Minette sees a zebra, she instantly turns to her brother and cries "Look, Floyd! It's so pretty!"

Foghorn

Fidelio laughs at his sister's antics when Mimi hears the words wrong and asks why there's a special horn for frogs.

Wash

Because the first one is obvious, Chloe's second thought as she sees her son fall is that the stain's not going to come out.

Patterned

Felix is three when he's in the store with his mother and screams "Look at all the pretty colours!"

Dress

The first time her brothers see Mimi in a dress, they all have the same reaction: "Are you sure you should be wearing that?"

Barking

Because they're boys and they're seven, Mavra doesn't have the heart to tell Foster and Frazer that Pudding can't bark, no matter how hard they try and make her.

Sleep

Every night, Felix (and Fidelio, if he was home) would sing Mimi a lullaby before bed, because until she was seven, she just couldn't do without it.

Cucumber

Because Minette just has to ask… "Mom, why does the zucchini look like a cucumber?"

Steel

Mavra thinks Floyd has the lamest jokes (it's proven when he tries to make a pun of the word "steel") but figures it's a phase he'll grow out of.

Lovely

"I like her more than the last one; she's got this air of sort of wild elegance," is what Mimi tells Fidelio when she first meets that actress that dyes her hair funny colours that her brother's dating.

Magnet

Felix wonders if some girls are secretly magnets, and Fidelio tells him that it's actually this thing called love.

Empire

"With our family, we could build our own little army!"

Twinkling

Mimi's three when she finds a pearl at the beach and Fidelio pinches her cheeks and tells her it's almost as shiny as her smile.

Bitter

When Minette's seven, she refuses to drink the lemonade, because she thinks it'll taste like the fruit itself.

Lope

At fifteen, Mimi just has to ask her brother, "Seriously, do you even know what the word means?"

Icy

"Mimi! Be careful!" Fidelio calls out as his youngest sister goes out onto the ice.

Xylophone

No matter what instrument they play now, it was always the first one they played.

Potato

Felix makes it just in time to stop Fidelio from cutting his finger instead of the food.

Awe-inspiring

When Mimi first takes up dance and Felix and Fidelio go to her first recital, all they can do is stare wide-eyed, because no ten-year-old should be able to do that.

Cotton

Felix has hated cotton every since he was nine, which is why on his nineteenth birthday, Clement just has to get him as much of it as possible.

Refreshing

Mimi watches both Felix and Fidelio with brighter smiles than ever, and knows that, as impossible seems, those girlfriends of theirs just might actually be good for them.

Twisted

Because it's crazy, and impossible, and feels amazing, and is just so right, Felix can't help thinking that it's so twisted she said yes, and finds he just might like twisted.

Illuminate

Felix's smile brightens the whole room when his band-mate tells him that they got a record deal.

Shallow

Frazer's running as fast as he can to home plate and Foster's hoping he gets to shallow left field.

Electricity

When Felix meets a girl named Nina, he sits down with Clement and asks his father if there's supposed to be a shock when they brush past each other.

Wistful

Floyd doesn't understand why Mavra asked Foster and Frazer to help her study for a spelling test until one pronounces "wishful" wrong and the other one laughs.

Solemn

Chloe and Clement found the house so pensive; then Felix was born.

Family

It's Chloe's eighth, and somehow, everyone manages to fit in the hospital room, looking at Mimi, their newest member.


A/N: I wrote this right after I wrote chapter 1, just because I have a sad, sad obsession with Fidelio and I'm quite sure Olivia would be very annoyed if she ever met me because of it. I'm just thinking "wow" because this might just be the first multi-chapter story I finish… even if it is supposed to be just about fifty sentences per chapter. Anyway, bye for now!

~May

Later A/N: I'M SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING! Basically, my computer DIED (I'm on my dad's laptop), and I lost half my files, including the one I was supposed to update on Friday, as well as some of my other genre challenge files and some other stories I was writing. I was planning on a double update today, but I didn't have anything to update, so I'm going to have to skip Olivia (sigh), remake the order, and hopefully update on Thursday. That being said, don't cross your fingers. I'm really sorry to the people who are actually reading this.