"Curious, how’d it end?"
Sometime around 1am I'm driving to an address on her phone, not sure exactly what for, but it will be good to have the night over with. She had earbuds in so I had the interactive map guiding me but no audio. After a bit of driving and unintentionally surreal chit chat followed by Tarantino-esque uncomfortable silence, I say it's ok for her to get some sleep. She's out like a light in about two seconds, and so still and quiet I'm not even sure she's still breathing. Her mouth was hanging open but with no sound whatsoever. I put the back of my hand in front of her face and can feel her breath, so she didn't just die on me. Her bag is about half as big as she is, and I'm hoping I don't get pulled over because there's no telling what's in it. More than once that night I thought I'd be rushing her to Lance's for off-the-books urgent care.
If I hadn't just experienced the strangest six or seven hours of the year, there was something almost endearing about the moment as she's sitting legs crossed with a too-big water bottle teetering in her lap over in the passenger's seat. The street lights were casting interesting shadows on her face, and she looked as pretty as someone can while essentially passed out from who knows what. But then I reminded myself she was fucking 191-proof bonkers and needed to get her out of my car. She wakes up right around the time I'm making a u-turn to double back to the house programmed into the phone. Think it was actually the house she's crashing at with relatives. She kisses me goodnight, gets out of the car, says we should do this again and walks slowly up to the front door. No one got stabbed in the heart with adrenaline, but I feel a little Vincent Vega-ish as I watch her walk in and drive off.
The odds of anything with her ever, ever happening again are imperceptibly low. And yes, she's a stripper.