Next door to Jeff's house lived a thirty-two year old woman named Lilly Perkins. Lilly was twice Jeff's age and had, on many occasions been the subject of his fantasies...not that Lilly had any idea her the teenager next door had a crush on her, though shee occasionally saw him looking out the window.
The woman lived alone...or rather, without any other humans. She had a roommate in the form of Sandy, her German Shepherd. At the moment, Lilly was taking Sandy for a walk, as she did most days at that time. It gave her time with her thoughts. Her boss was giving a hard time at work, wanting her to put in extra hours on a project.
They were nearly done when Jeff finished entering the global changes to the world.
Suddenly, there was what sounded to both of them like a wave of static, causing both human and dog to stop. Lilly stopped, looked around, frowned, but then started to continue on toward the house.
Sandy didn't continue, feeling more inquisitive than her master "What was that?" Sandy said, speaking for the very first time. However, she didn't realize that.
She suddenly felt a gentle tug on the leash. Lilly had gotten far enough that the leash had stopped her. She looked over at Lilly, who had turned around, and was standing there, waiting for her. Sandy looked at her. "What are you waiting for, Lilly?" She asked. She paused. "Oh...me...Sorry." She started moving forward again beginning to walk on her hind legs...it just felt more comfortable all of the sudden. As her hind paws expanded and thickened to hold the extra weight, a pair of pink running sneakers appeared on them.
"I feel like there is definitely something weird going on," she remarked to Lilly, wrapping the leash around her front paw. "I feel like my pelt is standing up." She didn't notice the leash was attached to a collar around the human's neck or that her collar had been replaced by a small necklace.
Lilly responded with a sudden bark. For a moment, that struck Sandy as odd, but why wouldn't Lilly bark, she wondered, if she wanted to say something? That was normal, wasn't it?
As she approached home and opened the front gate, Lilly ran ahead of her again. Sandy was getting this odd feeling every time she looked at her human that something was wrong, but everything seemed normal.
As soon as she closed and latched the gate behind her, she let Lilly off the leash so she could run around the front yard, obvious to the fact that Lilly had become a quadraped. "Home sweet home, girl." The naked human ran around the front yard on all fours, her tongue lolling out of her mouth as she panted excitedly.
Sandy leaned against the fence. Part of her wanted nothing more than to spend the whole day with the human, but she felt like she had a lot to do. "Come on, girl...let's get us both some food."
Lilly perked up. Her vocabulary had shrunk immensely in the last five minutes...but her simple mind recognized the word food. Concerns about her job, paying the mortgage, putting food on the table...had evaporated from her mind like the points of her IQ. For some reason, seeing Lilly so happy and carefree made Sandy smile.
"I wish lunch made me that happy," Sandy said.