- Operation All-Nighter is a go. Billy is ready to stay up until the wee hours of the morning, but Gabby and Sal are already asleep. Actually, Sal's been asleep since the second they got home. Then Billy and Gabby played Crazy Eights until she was too tired to stay up any later, too, so now it's just Billy. On his own. Trying with all his might not to fall asleep.
- It's turned out to be a lot harder than he thought, so Billy has to get creative to stay awake:
- Creative Solution One: Walking around his room and avoiding that soft bed.
- Creative Solution Two: Turning the lights on and off.
- Creative Solution Three: Reading and drawing.
- Creative Solution Four: Counting backward from one thousand.
- Creative Solution Five: Playing with the pearl and the envelope.
- Creative Solution Six: Making himself super duper scared.
- Okay, this last solution actually starts to work. Maybe too well. Billy imagines that there's a monster under his bed and his ideas get seriously detailed. Add some creaky noises with the wind blowing outside to the mix, and you've got one terrified second-grader.
- Billy gets so freaked out that he heads into his sister's room.