Diary
Of A
Wimpy Kid
Halloween Special
Today Mom said one of her friends was coming over. I asked: "why?" Mom said she worked at a prop store in town and she would help us make a haunted house like Mom wanted to do. Mom said I had to help. There was a store that had closed and we would be able to set up our haunted house there. Manny would be too scared to come with us and Rodrick can't come because he has band practice. Mom told us her friend was here. I looked out the window and I saw her car. Then I heard a knock then Mom opened the door, a short, thin lady wearing old-time clothes walked in when she came inside she disappeared in the air. Then a new lady waked in she was short and old I asked her about the person that disappeared. She said it was a projection of her when she was young and we will use that kind of stuff in the haunted house. I didn't get how she made it happen. Then she introduced herself she said her name was Jane. Mom called a babysitter to look after Manny. Then we left. We got there in only 10 minutes it was a big store. Jane grabbed a key to get into the store. Jane said she had to meet her grandchildren at 2:00 so we had 3 hours to work on the haunted house today. She said that in the closet there were some scary things so I went in there and saw a fake mummy and vampire. I grabbed them and put them out in front of the store, so everyone could see them. Jane asked me to help her outside because they had a truck to drop some stuff off for our spooky house. I grabbed the boxes and took them in.
We brought in some vampire costumes then Jane suggested that I look for a few vampire actors for our haunted house. First, I asked Rowley and he agreed to be a vampire, great one kid that I can count on to be there. Next I went back to Jane and told her that we had one vampire she said that it was a good start. Then she said that at school tomorrow I could recruit more kids. The next day I went to school and hung up posters announcing vampire try- outs in the gym after school. Now I needed some judges to decide who will make the best vampires. When the first fire bell went off we lined up in a single file line. We did different fire safety things all day because it's "Fire Safety Month", I was happy I didn't have to work hard. I asked Rowley if he wanted to be a judge he was ecstatic and promised to be very professional after all, he watched a lot of American idol. I thought I needed one more judge so I asked Holly Hills and she said she would, so I had my two judges. Once school was over; Rowley, Holly and I went to the gym to start setting up for vampire try-outs.
I put a table down and Rowley set 3 chairs behind the table. By 3:30 we were ready to start. The first kid walked through the door. He wore a black cape, fake fangs and a wig. He said his name was Dave. Dave tried to make some fierce sounds then he walked around raging violently. I asked my friends what they thought of him we all liked him so we gave him the job. I told him that he had to be at the old closed down prop Shop at the corner of first Ave on October 31st at 4:00 Dave agreed to be there.
Fregley was next he was wearing his unicorn costume from last Halloween. We commanded him to get off the stage he said no. I then lied and told him we had security and if he didn't get off the stage immediately I would sound the alarm. Fregley shouted: "you don't have security", after that he jumped off the stage and went for me that's when Rowley, Holly and I ran away. I ran around the school for a while then decided to head back to the gym. Rowley and Holly were back when I arrived. Holly questioned why we were running away, she asked what Fregley could do to all three of us. We thought for a minute and couldn't think of a thing so we sat down and called the next kid in line for the vampire audition. He was short and fat with a bad costume. He didn't sound like a vampire, he didn't look like a vampire and he didn't walk like a vampire. Now it was time to judge him, and boy, he was terrible. I ask what Rowley thought of him. Rowley didn't like him then I asked Holly, she said he sucked. We all agreed that we would not give him the job but no one wanted to tell him that he was dreadful. We waited 2 minutes then I said he was not going to get the job, he started to cry, and that made us feel bad. I tried to tell him he how much he stunk in the nicest way possible.
The next kid was Bryce Anderson he tried to walk around but fell that's all he wanted to do no sounds and to top it off he had no costume. Bryce was worse than the last guy. We all agreed that he was awful but no one wanted to tell him that he was awful because Bryce was the most popular kid in school and he had the power to make all the other kids hate us. And he probably would.