Cliché

The story started out very cliché. Martin and Jane were co-workers for many years. Their relationship had been quite platonic, but over drinks during one business trip they began to talk about their spouses. James explained how bored he had become with his wife, and Jane pined about how poorly her husband treated her. The next thing the two of them knew, they found themselves in bed together.

Where the cliché fell apart was the next morning when Martin and Jane woke up in each others’ bodies. Martin lay on the bed and opined, “How am I going to explain this to me wife?”

“We can’t tell them anything,” Jane sniped, “What would we tell them? That we switched bodies after having sex? I’m not sure if they’d laugh at us or kill us. We have to pretend to be each other.”

“I don’t know. I heard last night about how your husband treats you. I’m not sure I could --”

Jane interrupted before he could finish, “And your wife sounds like a snooze, but we don’t have the luxury of an option here...”