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PEEKABOO! Last night me and Rowley waited for Mom and Dad to go to bed, and then we watched our movie. Technically, I was the only one who watched it, because Rowley had his eyes and ears covered the whole entire time. The movie was about this muddy hand that goes around the country killing people. And the last person who sees the hand is always the next victim.

躲躲猫!昨晚我和罗利等爸爸妈妈上床睡觉，然后我们看了电影。 严格来说，我是唯一一个看的人，因为罗利从头到尾都把眼睛和耳朵捂着。 这部电影讲的是一只沾满泥巴的手在全国各地杀人。 最后一个看到手的人总是下一个受害者。

The special effects were really cheesy, and I wasn't even scared until the very end. That's when the twist came. After the muddy hand strangled its last victim, it came crawling straight at the screen, and then the screen went black. At first I was a little confused, but then I realized it meant the next victim was gonna be me. I turned the TV off, and then I described the whole movie to Rowley from beginning to end. Well, I must've done a pretty good job telling the story, because Rowley got even more freaked-out than I was.

特效真的很俗气，直到最后我才感到害怕。 这时转折来了。 在那只沾满泥巴的手勒死最后一个受害者后，它径直爬向屏幕，然后屏幕就黑了。 一开始我有点困惑，但后来我意识到这意味着下一个受害者将是我。 我关掉了电视，然后向罗利从头到尾描述了整部电影。 我一定把这个故事讲得很好，因为罗利比我更害怕。

I knew we couldn't go to Mom and Dad this time because they'd ground me if they found out we watched a horror movie. But we didn't feel safe in the basement, so we spent the rest of the night in the upstairs bathroom with the lights on. I just wish we had managed to stay awake the whole night, because when Dad found us in the morning, it wasn't a pretty scene.

我知道这次我们不能去找爸妈了，因为如果他们发现我们看了恐怖电影，他们会禁足我的。 但我们觉得地下室不安全，所以我们在楼上的浴室里一直开着灯。 我只希望我们能整晚都保持清醒，因为当爸爸早上发现我们的时候，情况并不好。

Dad wanted to know what was going on, and I had to fess up. Dad told Mom, so now I'm just waiting to hear how long I'm gonna be grounded for. But to be honest with you, I'm a lot more worried about this muddy hand than any punishment Mom can dream up. I thought about it, though, and I realized there's only so much ground a muddy hand can cover in a day. nkledc. So hopefully that means I have a little while longer to live.

爸爸想知道发生了什么事，我不得不坦白。 爸爸告诉妈妈了，所以我现在就等着知道我要被禁足多久。 但说实话，比起妈妈能想出的惩罚，我更担心这只沾满泥巴的手。 不过我想了想，我意识到一只沾满泥巴的手一天能走的路是有限的。 希望这意味着我还能多活一会儿。

Tuesday Yesterday, Mom lectured me about how boys my age watch too many violent movies and play too many video games, and that we don't know what Real entertainment is. I just stayed quiet, because I wasn't sure exactly where she was going with all this. Then Mom said that she was gonna start a "reading club" for the boys in the neighborhood so she could

昨天，妈妈教训我说我这个年纪的男孩看了太多的暴力电影，玩了太多的电子游戏，我们不知道什么是真正的娱乐。 我只是保持沉默，因为我不确定她到底想说什么。 然后妈妈说她要为邻居的男孩们成立一个“读书俱乐部”这样她就可以

teach us about all the great literature we were missing out on. I begged Mom to just give me a regular punishment instead, but she wouldn't budge. So today was the first meeting of the Reading Is Fun Club. I felt kind of bad for all the boys whose moms made them come. I was just glad Mom didn't invite Fridley, this weird kid who lives up the street, because he's been acting stranger than usual lately.

告诉我们所有我们错过的伟大文学作品。 我求妈妈只给我一个常规的惩罚，但她不让步。 所以今天是阅读是乐趣俱乐部的第一次会议。 我为那些被妈妈逼来的男孩感到难过。 我只是很高兴妈妈没有邀请弗里德利，那个住在街对面的奇怪孩子，因为他最近表现得比平时更奇怪。