I Represent Sean Rosen by Jeff Baron Page A

grandmother, and now he doesn’t know what to think.
    Chris says he’s tired and goes upstairs. He calls his friend Zahid. Chris really wants to tell Zahid about Grandpa’s invention, but since he swore he wouldn’t, he can’t.
    Chloe comes to Chris’s room. Neither of them believes what just happened. They swore not to tell anyone else, but they have to talk about it with each other. They’re brother and sister, but they’re also friends.
    Now that they know Grandpa’s virtual reality time machine actually works, Chris and Chloe think of other things they want to do with it. Chloe is having a fight with her friend April. April had a spa sleepover, and after their manicures, when April’s mom took the girls to a restaurant for dinner, Taylor Swift was there and they all got her autograph. Of course Chloe heard about it and her feelings were hurt that she wasn’t invited. April swears she texted Chloe about it the week before, but Chloe knows she never got that text.
    If she can get some of April’s DNA, Chloe can go back to the Friday in school before the sleepover and find out the truth. Will April talk to Chloe about it or try to avoid her?
    All Chris really wants to do is to spend more time with his grandmother when she was fifteen, but he’s embarrassed about that. There’s another reason he wants to go to the past. Chris is on his high school’s varsity tennis team, which is pretty good for a sophomore. He always plays doubles, but Chris is sure he could win if he got to play singles.
    Last week he had the perfect chance to ask the coach, but he got scared and didn’t do it. He’s been mad at himself ever since. If Chris can get some of the coach’s DNA, he can use Grandpa’s invention to go back to that day last week and talk to the coach in virtual reality. If it goes okay, Chris will have the courage to try it in real reality.
    The rest of the week is very, very interesting. Chris and Chloe each take a few more trips to the past with their grandparents’ DNA. They’ll never think of their family the same way they used to. Everyone was young once, and now Chris and Chloe can actually picture it.
    Even Grandma, who still doesn’t trust the virtual reality time machine, decides to give it another try. Roscoe, their next-door neighbor’s dog, always barks like crazy when he sees Grandma and Grandpa’s blue Toyota. If they want to get any sleep at night, they have to keep it in the garage.
    Grandpa says, “Roscoe must have had a bad experience as a puppy with a blue car, a Toyota, or a blue Toyota.”
    Grandma thinks it happened the day he brought the car home. She wasn’t there, but she has a feeling Grandpa missed the driveway and almost ran over Roscoe. Grandpa still sometimes misses the driveway.
    Grandma, who’s very organized, finds the receipt for the car with the exact date they bought it. She gets Roscoe to lick a slide (he licks everything), then goes to Roscoe’s past to wait outside for Grandpa to drive the car home that day.
    Chris and Chloe’s parents come home from their week in the empty part of Bolivia. It was a crazy experience, but they survived it together without any devices. They’ll talk about it for years and they’ll keep taking vacations, sometimes without their iPhones and sometimes without Chris and Chloe, who don’t mind, because they can’t wait to spend another week with their grandparents.
    The movie ends with Chris and Chloe back home. We see them in school trying to collect DNA samples from April and the coach without them knowing it.
    I like this movie idea. I wrote down a few notes so I’ll remember it. I can’t believe how much time passed since I came upstairs after dinner. Time for bed. I can’t wait until tomorrow.

chapter 23
    I woke up thinking about Chris and Chloe and their parents and grandparents. It’s amazing. I know them now,