Expectation, explained, would be that an occurance would be reasonble, due or necessary. Therefore, when her white Jeep, with its top down, pull up and on to the curb in Georgetown and she left me to idle there at 2am it was... unexpected. Consequently I tensed up and held on to the door handle tightly. Not sure why really, a false sense of security perhaps. I watched her through the mirror, she waddled up a short set of stairs to a rowhouse. White painted brick, lights behind thick sheer drapes on the third floor and when the door opened the man stepped out and pulled it closed behind him. I could not hear him but I did hear her head hit the wall. He shooked her twice and the second time created contact. I didn't hear her make a noise and a moment later the door opened and she followed him inside holding the back of her head. I winced empathically. I sat there for ten minutes and in that time imagined all possible scenarios from her returning bleeding, screaming and tearing the Jeep down Wiscosin Avenue, to her not coming back at all and in fact someone else coming to grab me. My hand was still on the door. I cursed myself for accepting her ride home and lamented not thinking to ask her to leave the keys so I could 'listen to the radio'. Not like I could drive anyways. All that I thought was not brought and she returned moments later with her perpetual lulling smile, "wow! heehee, I shouldn't have had that last shot of Jaeger!" she declared as she reved the engine, "Its like whenever I'm drinking white wine I always tell myself that I won't have any shots, but you know when a party is going, you can't say no! I so totally have this like pre-hangover headache and I know in the morning it is just going to be so much worse and I just need to learn from this very important experience to just say no! I can work up a waitresses tab in another way. Cause you know I always take care of the waitresses. You know. Right? Don't you know? Didn't I always take care of you? I always made sure you were taken care of. Didn't I? Right?"