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Ever since the worm incident, Rowley has been hanging out with Collin Lee every day after school. What really stinks is that Collin is supposed to be my backup friend. Those guys are acting totally ridiculous. Today, Rowley and Collin were wearing these matching T-shirts, and it made me just about want to vomit. After dinner tonight, I saw Rowley and Collin walking up the hill together, chumming it up. Collin had his overnight bag, so I knew they were going to do a sleepover at Rowley's. And I thought, well, two can play at that game. The

自从蠕虫事件后，罗利每天放学后都和科林·李一起出去玩。 真正糟糕的是科林本该是我的后备朋友。 那些人的行为太荒唐了。 今天，罗利和科林穿着情侣t恤，让我都想吐了。 今晚晚饭后，我看见罗利和科林一起走上山，谈笑风生。 科林带着他的过夜包，所以我知道他们要在罗利家过夜。 我想，好吧，两个人也可以玩这个游戏。 的

best way to get back at Rowley was to get a new best friend of my own. But unfortunately, the only person who came to mind right at that moment was Fregley. I went up to Fregley's with my overnight bag so Rowley could see I had other friend options, too. When I got there, Fregley was in his front yard stabbing a kite with a stick. That's when I started to think maybe this wasn't the best idea after all. But Rowley was in his front yard, and he was watching me. So I knew there was no turning back. I invited myself into Fregley's house. His mom said she was excited to see Fregley with a "playmate," which was a term I was not too enthusiastic about.

报复罗利最好的办法就是找一个我自己的好朋友。 但不幸的是，在那一刻我唯一想到的人是弗雷格利。 我带着我的旅行包去了弗雷格利家这样罗利就能知道我还有别的朋友可以选择。 我到那里的时候，弗雷格利正在他的前院用棍子刺风筝。 那时我开始想，也许这根本不是一个好主意。 但罗利在他的前院，他在看着我。 所以我知道没有回头路了。 我不请自来地进了弗雷格利家。 他的妈妈说，她很高兴看到弗雷格利有了一个“玩伴”，我不太喜欢这个词。

Me and Fregley went upstairs to his room. Fregley tried to get me to play Twister with him, so I made sure I stayed ten feet away from him at all times. I decided that I should just pull the plug on this stupid idea and go home. But every time I looked out the window, Rowley and Collin were still in Rowley's front yard. I didn't want to leave until those guys went back inside. But things started to get out of hand with Fregley pretty quickly. When I was looking out the window, Fregley broke into my backpack and ate the whole bag of jelly beans I had in there. Fregley's one of these kids who's not supposed to eat any sugar, so two minutes later, he was bouncing off the walls.

我和弗雷格利上楼去了他的房间。 弗雷格利想让我和他一起玩扭扭游戏，所以我一直保持着离他10英尺远的距离。 我决定放弃这个愚蠢的想法，然后回家。 但每次我向窗外望去，罗利和科林都还在罗利家的前院。 我不想在那些人进去之前离开。 但弗雷格利很快就失去了控制。 当我往窗外看的时候，弗雷格利闯进了我的背包，把我包里的软糖都吃光了。 弗雷格利是那种不应该吃糖的孩子，所以两分钟后，他就疯了。

Fregley started acting like a total maniac, and he chased me all around his upstairs. I kept thinking he was going to come down off of his sugar high, but he didn't. Eventually, I locked myself in his bathroom to wait him out. Around 11:30, it got quiet out in the hallway. nkledc. That's when Fregley slipped a piece of paper under the door.

弗雷格利开始像个疯子一样，他在楼上追我。 我一直以为他会从糖瘾中恢复过来，但他没有。 最后，我把自己锁在他的浴室里等他出来。 11点半左右，走廊里安静了下来。 就在这时，弗雷格利从门缝里塞进了一张纸。

I picked it up and read it. Dear Gregory, I'm very sorry I chased you with a booger on my finger. Here, I put it on this paper so you can get me back. That's the last thing I remember before I blacked out. I came to my senses a few hours later. After I woke up, I cracked the door open, and I heard snoring coming from Fregley's room. So I decided to make a run for it. Mom and Dad were not happy with me for getting them out of bed at 2:00 in the morning. But by that point, I could really care less.

我把它捡起来读了起来。 亲爱的格雷戈里，很抱歉我手指上粘着鼻屎追着你。 我把它写在这张纸上，这样你就能把我找回来了。 这是我昏迷前记得的最后一件事。 几小时后我恢复了理智。 醒来后，我把门推开，听到从弗雷格利的房间里传来鼾声。 所以我决定逃跑。 妈妈和爸爸很不高兴，因为我在凌晨两点把他们从床上叫起来。 但到那时，我真的不在乎了。

Monday Well, me and Rowley have officially been ex-friends for about a month now, and to be honest with you, I'm better off without him. I'm glad I can just do whatever I want without having to worry about carrying all that dead weight around. Lately I've been hanging out in Rodrick's room after school and going through his stuff. The other day, I found one of his middle school yearbooks.

我和罗利正式成为前朋友已经有一个月了，说实话，没有他我过得更好。 我很高兴我可以做任何我想做的事而不用担心带着这些累赘。 最近放学后，我一直在罗德里克的房间里闲逛，翻他的东西。 前几天，我发现了他的一本中学年鉴。