Diary of a Wimpy Kid Read Online Free

with a big trash can full of water.
    And if any teenagers pass by our driveway, he drenches them.
    [Image: A cartoon showing a boy throwing water to other people.]
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    I'm not sure Dad really understands the concept of Halloween. But I'm not gonna be the one who spoils his fun.
    [Image: A cartoon showing a boy talking to two persons.] The Caption Reads: "trick or treat! Heh, Heh!"
    Tonight was the opening night of the Crossland High School haunted house, and I got Mom to agree to take me and Rowley.
    Rowley showed up at my house wearing his Halloween costume from last year. When I called him earlier I told him to just wear regular clothes, but of course he didn't listen.
    [Image: A cartoon showing a boy wearing his Halloween costume from last year.]
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    I tried not to let it bother me too much, though. I've never been allowed to go to the Crossland haunted house before, and I wasn't going to let Rowley ruin it for me. Rodrick has told me all about it, and I've been looking forward to this for about three years.
    Anyway, when we got to the entrance, I started having second thoughts about going in.
    [Image: A cartoon showing children lined up to enter Crossland haunted house.] The Caption Reads: "good eeeveninggg"
    But Mom seemed like she was in a hurry to get this over with, and she moved us along. Once we were through the gate, it was one scare after another. There were vampires jumping out at you and people without heads and all sorts of crazy stuff.
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    But the worst part was this area called Chainsaw Alley. There was this big guy in a hockey mask and he had a REAL chainsaw. Rodrick told me the chainsaw has a rubber blade, but I wasn't taking any chances.
    [Image: A cartoon showing children running away.]
    Right when it looked like the chainsaw guy was going to catch us, Mom stepped in and bailed us out.
    [Image: A cartoon showing children being saved by their mom.] The Caption Reads: "that's not nice!
    I'm sorry ma'am!"
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    Mom made the chainsaw guy show us where the exit was, and that was the end of our haunted house experience right there. I guess it was a little embarrassing when Mom did that, but I'm willing to let it go this one time.

    Saturday

    The Crossland haunted house really got me thinking. Those guys were charging five bucks a pop, and the line stretched halfway around the school.
    I decided to make a haunted house of my own. Actually, I had to bring Rowley in on the deal, because Mom wouldn't let me convert our first floor into a full-out haunted mansion.
    I knew Rowley's dad wouldn't be crazy about the idea, either, so we decided to build the haunted house in his basement and just not mention it to his parents.
    Me and Rowley spent most of the day coming up with an awesome plan for our haunted house.
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    Here was our final plan:
    [Image: A cartoon showing a haunted house.]
    I don't mean to brag or anything, but what we came up with was WAY better than the Crossland High School haunted house.
    We realized we were gonna need to get the word out that we were doing this thing, so we got some paper and made up a bunch of flyers.
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    I'll admit maybe we stretched the truth a little in our advertisement, but we had to make sure people actually showed up.
    [Image: an advertisement of a haunted house.]
    By the time we finished putting the flyers up around the neighborhood and got back to Rowley's basement, it was already 2:30, and we hadn't even started putting the actual haunted house together yet.
    So we had to cut some corners from our original plan.
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    When 3:00 rolled around, we looked outside to see if anyone had showed up. And sure enough, there were about twenty neighborhood kids waiting in line outside Rowley's basement.
    Now, I know our flyers said admission was fifty cents, but I could see that we had a chance to make a killing here.
    So I told the kids that admission was two bucks, and the fifty-cent thing was just a typo.
    [Image: A cartoon showing children trying to enter Rowley's