Diary of a Wimpy Kid Read Free

lives halfway between my house and Rowley's, and Fregley is always hanging out in his front yard. So it's pretty hard to avoid him.
    [Image: A cartoon showing a boy showing his freckles to another one.] The Caption Reads: "wanna see my "secret Freckle"
    Um... No thanks."
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    Fregley is in my Phys Ed class at school, and he has this whole made-up language. Like when he needs to go to the bathroom, he says-
    [Image: A cartoon showing two boys looking at the third one who wants to go to the bathroom.]
    Us kids have pretty much figured Fregley out by now, but I don't think the teachers have really caught on yet.
    [Image: A cartoon showing two boys talking.] The Caption Reads: "Ok, kid... gee whiz!"
    Today, I probably would have gone up to Rowley's on my own anyway, because my brother Rodrick and his band were practicing down in the basement.
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    Rodrick's band is REALLY awful, and I can't stand being home when they're having rehearsals.
    His band is called "Loaded Diaper," only it's spelled "Löded Diper" on Rodrick's van.
    You might think he spelled it that way to make it look cooler, but I bet if you told Rodrick how "Loaded Diaper" is really spelled, it would be news to him.
    [Image: A cartoon showing a boy in a van.]
    Dad was against the idea of Rodrick starting a band, but Mom was all for it.
    She's the one who bought Rodrick his first drum set.
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    I think Mom has this idea that we're all going to learn to play instruments and then become one of those family bands like you see on TV.
    [Image: A cartoon showing children playing instruments.]
    Dad really hates heavy metal, and that's the kind of music Rodrick and his band play. I don't think Mom really cares what Rodrick plays or listens to, because to her, all music is the same. In fact, earlier today, Rodrick was listening to one of his CDs in the family room, and Mom came in and started dancing.
    [Image: A cartoon showing a boy listening to a radio and a girl dancing.]
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    That really bugged Rodrick, so he drove off to the store and came back fifteen minutes later with some headphones. And that pretty much took care of the problem.
    [Image: A cartoon showing a boy listening to a radio with a headphone.]

    Thursday

    Yesterday Rodrick got a new heavy metal CD, and it had one of those "Parental Warning" stickers on it.
    I have never gotten to listen to one of those Parental Warning CDs, because Mom and Dad never let me buy them at the mall. So I realized the only way I was gonna get a chance to listen to Rodrick's CD was if I snuck it out of the house.
    This morning, after Rodrick left, I called up Rowley and told him to bring his CD player to school.
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    Then I went down to Rodrick's room and took the CD off his rack.
    [Image: A cartoon showing a boy walking away with a CD.]
    You're not allowed to bring personal music players to school, so we had to wait to use it until after lunch when the teachers let us outside. As soon as we got the chance, me and Rowley snuck around the back of the school and loaded up Rodrick's CD.
    But Rowley forgot to put batteries in his CD player, so it was pretty much worthless.
    Then I came up with this great idea for a game. The object was to put the headphones on your head and then try to shake them off without using your hands.
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    The winner was whoever could shake the headphones off in the shortest amount of time.
    [Image: A cartoon showing a boy shaking off his headphone.]
    I had the record with seven and a half seconds, but I think I might have shook some of my fillings loose with that one.
    Right in the middle of our game, Mrs. Craig came around the corner and caught us red-handed. She took the music player away from me and started chewing us out.
    [Image: A cartoon showing a lady shouting at the two boys.]
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    But I think she had the wrong idea about what we were doing back there. She started telling us how rock and roll is "evil" and how it's going to ruin our brains.
    I was going to tell her that there weren't even any batteries