Diary of a Wimpy Kid: RODRICK RULES | 5 Pages | Part 6

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Dad spends at least three hours a night down there working on that thing. I think Dad would be happy to spend the whole weekend working on his battlefield, but Mom has OTHER plans for him. Mom likes to rent these romantic comedies, and she makes Dad watch them with her. But I know Dad is just waiting for the first chance to break away and go back down to the basement.

Whenever Dad can't be down in the furnace room, he makes sure us kids keep away from it. Dad won't let me or Rodrick go NEAR his battlefield, because he thinks we're gonna mess something up. And earlier today I overheard Dad say something to Manny to make sure HE doesn't go poking around back there, either.

(Saturday)
Rowley came over to my house today. Dad doesn't like it when Rowley comes over, because Dad always says Rowly is "Accident Prone". I think it's because this one time Rowley was eating dinner here, and he dropped a plate and broke it. So now Dad has this idea that Rowley is going to ruin his whole "Civil War" battlefield in one klutzy move.

Whenever Rowley comes over to my house these days, he gets the same greeting:

Rowley's dad doesn't like ME, either. That's why I don't go over to his house much anymore. The last time I spent the night at Rowley's we watched this movie where some kids taught themselves a secret language that no grown-ups could understand.

(Translation: AT EXACTLY 2:30 P.M., LET'S ALL DROP OUR BOOKS ON THE FLOOR.)
Me and Rowley thought that was pretty cool, and we tried to figure out how to talk in the same language the kids were using in the movie. But we couldn't really get the hang of it, so we made up our OWN secret language. Then we tried it out at dinner.

But Rowley's dad must have cracked our code, because I ended up getting sent home before dessert. And I haven't been invited to spend the night at Rowley's ever since.

(The End)
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