Jake and Kelly had both been working from home for nearly a year due to the pandemic. Their house had two spare rooms that had been converted by necessity into a pair of home offices. Each weekday they would go to their respective offices, meet up in the kitchen for lunch, and resume working separately for the afternoon. Both of their full time jobs seemed to drag on well beyond 40 hours a week with endless video conferences and emails.
The couple rarely went out because of the pandemic, and then usually only for essential shopping. No vacations, few dinner dates. They weren't tired of each other, but they both felt stressed and the cabin fever was setting in. They needed something to make things more interesting.
Now winter had arrived and the pandemic still seemed far from over. To make matters worse, the house's heat did not work very well. Kelly was browsing the internet, looking for new leggings or something else that could keep her warm at her desk. That's when the internet ad caught her eye: "Warm up your legs and your love life." One solution to two problems?
Kelly browsed the website. There were skin-tight leggings with a variety of colors and patterns: flesh-tone, fish scales, tiger stripes, cheetah spots, black and white splotches like a cow, several kinds of fake fur, a muscular green design which she thought were supposed to be frog legs. Besides the leggings, there was also something that resembled an ankle-length tube-skirt. It looked like it would be almost impossible to walk in, but could be slid into place while seated, like wrapping her legs up in a tight blanket. The patterns included fish scales and snake scales.
Kelly make a selection. Little did she know how the purchase would transform her life.