Page 128 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1

The Hall of Screams was basically a bed with me

and Rowley on either side of it.

I guess maybe we made the Hall of Screams a

little too scary, because halfway through, Shane

curled up in a ball underneath the bed. We tried

to get him to crawl out from under there, but

he wouldn’t budge.

I started thinking about all the money we were

losing with this kid clogging up the Hall of Screams,

and I knew we had to get him out of there, quick.

Eventually, Rowley’s dad came downstairs. At

first I was happy to see him, because I thought