Greg came up with the dare because he wrote his name on the fort last summer, when they built it so he went inside the front door made himself a bowl of ice cream and relaxed for a while. Greg decides to spend some time by himself by committing a dare to see who was braver, each one of them had to go in the woods and write down their name on a fort they built and who ever chickened out was wrong about volleyball and had to call the other guy sir for the rest of his life. They then play Hide-and-Seek but Greg finds Rowley easily because Rowley thinks that if he can't see you, you can't see him. Spotting the two playing video games, Susan tells them to do something else and they play Wacky Sentence, but they get in a fight over the spelling of volleyball. However, he grows too addicted so Susan makes him invite Rowley over. Missing the feeling while he had taken care of Alfrendo, Greg turns to Net Kritterz to fill the hole. He soon grew to love the doll, but misplaced it so he developed a fear that the doll will return to exact his revenge. Since he didn't write a wish list, Susan got him a doll named Alfrendo while Susan was pregnant. Greg decides to create his Christmas wish list as to not repeat what happened a few years ago.
Greg can't help but notice how the adults at his school had trouble paying for insurance for the playground equipment after noting that the school took away all of it and the kids wear bicycle helmets to Manny's peewee soccer game. This makes Greg remember how he and Rowley were chased with a stick by Nasty Pants, but only to find out he's just five to Frank's disappointment.
Greg then recalls how before Thanksgiving Break, his school had a contest to create posters in order to get rid of bullying. The next day, while putting up the Christmas tree, Manny throws a huge tantrum when he finds out that they were decorating without him, the reason why he was upset was because someone hung his favorite ornament so Susan gave the ornament to Manny but he wanted it first on the tree and that's what happens in his house every single year. Whenever Greg wakes up Santa's Scout is in a new place which he thinks is supposed to mean he traveled to the North Pole but he's starting to think it's just Rodrick moving him. To Greg, the toy doesn't let him repeat any of his usual antics to find out what his presents are and makes him be extra good when he's in the room with Santa's Scout so it doesn't report anything bad to Santa back at the North Pole but it probably doesn't matter anyway because Rodrick is constantly feeding bad information about him. Then he also complains about a toy Susan brought out, Santa's Scout. He complains that kids who's families who don't celebrate Christmas don't have to stress out and that he has a few friends like Chirag Gupta who act bit extra jerky just because they can and the fact that Santa knows when your sleeping, knows when your awake really creeps him out. Worrying about the holidays, Greg writes in his journal that he has to change his behavior to not get bad presents for Christmas. Greg knows that when the snow melts he's going to have to face the music, but could any punishment be worse than being stuck inside with your family for the holidays? The authorities are closing in, but when a surprise blizzard hits, the Heffley family is trapped indoors. School property has been damaged, and Greg is the prime suspect.
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