JoJo awoke with a start. “Oh Gosh! Whew!”

Next to her, Joe propped himself up on one elbow. “You all right, honey? Was it a nightmare?”

“Yes. I mean no. I don’t know. It was so strange.”

“Tell me. Was someone chasing you or something? You’re all out of breath.”

“I know. Just a weird dream.”

“Do you remember any of it?”

“Maybe a little. Do you remember how back in high school I always wanted to play an instrument?”

“Yeah. Kind of.”

“I did, but for some reason I never ... Anyway, it was like I was back in high school. Music period. Mr. Welker.”

“Mr. Lawrence Welker?”

“Ha, that’s right. That’s what we always called him. What a funny little man.”

“But that was in junior high. You didn’t take music in high school.”

“Right. But in the dream it was high school. I was on the stage, and I was supposed to perform this piece of music. Mr. Welker was there. He said, ‘Now’s your big chance.’”

JoJo paused as if to think. When she didn’t say anything for a while, Joe asked, “So did you play?”

JoJo took a deep breath. “I had this really strange instrument. It was like a guitar but longer, and without any strings. It was called a penis.”

“Ha! Really?”

JoJo nodded.

“So did you play it? The penis?”

“I knew I was supposed to, but I didn’t have any idea how. I couldn’t even read music. And besides that, I was naked. And everyone in the school, and all the parents, too, were looking at me. Waiting for me to play.”

“Wow. I can see how that would be really...”

“Yeah. It was. And even though the guitar—”

“The penis.”

“Right. Even though the penis was big, it wasn’t enough to cover my ... my pussy. Everyone could see.”

JoJo took another deep breath.

“So what did you do?”

“Well, I started to play. I don’t know how, but I started. Moving my fingers, you know? And then I saw that I was wearing that ankle bracelet with the pretty blue pearl you gave me. The one I lost.”

“You lost it?”

“Uh, yeah. I meant to tell you. This was a while back. I guess I was jogging and it just kind of fell off without me noticing. I really liked that ankle bracelet.”

“I liked it too.”

“But you didn’t notice I hadn’t been wearing it in a while.”

“So you had it on in the dream?”

“Yeah. And I realized it was what was helping me play.”

“How did it do that?”

“I don’t know, but it did. It was like my, my you know. My clit.”

“It was like your clit?”

“Yeah. And I was making the most beautiful music. And I didn’t care about the people anymore. I just played. It was really beautiful, Joe.”

“What did it sound like?”

“I don’t know. Just that it was really really beautiful, and I was playing it.”

“Well that sounds good.”

“Yeah. It was good. And it got better and better and better, the best music ever. And then I came.”

“You came?”

“I think so. I think I had an orgasm. In my dream. But also a real one. That’s what woke me up.”

Joe and JoJo looked at one another. Then Joe said, “That’s great, honey. Do you think you might like to try a duet with me?”

JoJo smiled. “I think I’d like that. I think I’d like that a lot.”