Greg finds his old journal after getting home from work under a stack of paperwork and decided to give it a try after years of not writing in his journals. Greg says Rowley moved to Boston and he has been working at an office job with Bryce Anderson stating that he doesn't enjoy the job but it pays his bills to which Greg questions if he's happy.
In the next entry, Greg says that Rodrick still lives in Plainville but Manny moved to New York in his twenties and the rest of the family haven't forgiven him and sometimes Rodrick and Greg still sees him if he's in town but not Frank and Susan which they still live in the same house. Rodrick is also now married and they got a kid Greg takes a note of the fact that Rodrick seems to know what he's doing.
Greg is not married as he's too busy with work then Greg gets a phone call from Frank who says that he needs to go to the hospital now as his cancer has gotten worse since he was diagonsed with lung cancer a year ago. The next day Greg and his family were suprised to see Manny at the hospital because he wanted to see Susan and Frank but Frank tells him to get out which made Manny leave.
He tried to talk to Rodrick and Greg but Rodrick punched him in the face which shut him up. Greg was scarced both for Frank and himself as he would not thought that his life would end up like this maybe there's something wrong with him so he sent a mail to Rowley. The next day Greg explains what happened to him and Rowley. Greg and Rowley were friends since middle school then went to the same college as him and even moved into the same neighborhood. Greg tried to apply for a job at Funbrain Games as that was the company that made Twisted Wizard and Rowley got his Zoo-Wee-Mama in the newspaper and Greg was really happy about it but then a call changed things forever. Rowley got a call from a comic syndicate in Boston who told him that they were interested in his comics and offered him a position. The thing was, they only have room for one more cartoonist so Rowley had to move to Boston within two weeks. Greg wasn't in a good mood already after Funbrain denied his application so he was devestated when Rowley told him about the news so the day before Rowley moved Greg and Rowley went to the top of Westmore middle school's roof where Greg tells Rowley that he "loves him." He left next morning and he haven't talked to Greg ever since.
It has been a week since Greg messaged Rowley but he hadn't responded to him so he went to Boston and went to Rowley's place where Rowley responded with "I'm not gay, Greg."