Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Book Series (13 page)

X don + mean +o brag or any+King, bo+ wKa+ we came o^ wi+K was WAY be++er +Han +he Crossland H

Vie realised we were gonna need +o ge+ +he word oo+ +Ka+ we were doing +Kis +bw'ng, so we go+ some ^>aper and made o^> a buncK of flyers.

I'll admit mayhe we stretched the truth <» little in our advertisement, hut we had to moke Sore people actually showed i^>.

By the time we ■finished ^uttin^ the flyers uf> around the neighborhood and 30+ hack +0 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 flrom our ordinal ^>lan.

VJKen
3:00
rolled around, we looked oo+side +o see
if
anyone Kad sKowed op. And Sore enoo^K, +Kere were aboot -twenty nei^KborKood kids waiting in line outside Rowleys basement.

Mow, X know oor -flyers said admission was fifty cents, but X coold see tKat we Kad a cKahce to make a killing Kere.

So X told tKe kids tKat admission was +wo bucks, and +Ke frfty-cent tKing was just a -typo.

XKe first kid +o cougK up Kis -two bocks was SKane Snella. He paid Kis money and we let Kim inside, and me and Rowley +ook oor positions in tKe H«*U
of
Screams.

"The Hall
of
Screams was basically a bed wi+H me ahd Rowley oh ei+Her side
of
i+.

X ^ueSS maybe we made +He Hall
of
Screams a li++le +oo scary, because Hal/way -tHroucjH, SHahe curled Up ih a ball uhderhea+H +Ke bed. Vie -tried +o ^e-t Kim +0 crawl ou+ -from uhder +Kere, bu+ He wouldh’+ bud^e.

X S+ar+ed -tHihkih^ abou+ all +He mohey we were losih^ Wi+K +K.S kid dojjgih^ up -tKe H“ll
of
Screams, ahd X khew we Had -to ^e+ Him ou+
of
+Here, <^uick.

E-Veh+ually, Rowley s dad came dowhS+airs. A+ frsi
X was Happy +0 See Him, because X +HougH+ He could Help us dra^ SHahe ou+
fro
m uhder -tHe bed ahd ^e+ our Hauh+ed House crahkihg a^aih.

Rowleys dad wanted +o know wKat we were doing, and wKy SKane Sriella was curled u^> under tKe feed.

Vie told Kiri tKat tKe basement was a Kaunted Kouse, and tKat SKane Snella actually PAID •for us +o do tKis +o Kim. But Rowley s dad didn’t believe uS.

I admit tKat if you looked around, it didn't really look like a Kaunted Koose. All we Kad time to ^>ut togetKer was tKe H«H of Screams and tKe Lake of Blood, wKicK was just Rowleys old baby ^>ooI witK Kalf a bottle of ketcKu^> in it.

I tried +o show Rowleys dad our original plan +o prove -that we really were running a legitimate operation, but he still didn't seem convinced

And io make a long story short, -that was the end
of our
haunted house.