Fun fact: video games stop rendering everything the player isn't looking at. That NPC right behind you that's following you around? Not rendered until you look at it. There's also a common technique where scenes at a great distance are rendered with fewer polygons (detail) because the player can't perceive the full detail.

In this case, we assume the girlfriend is both far away (out of town) and yet still observing the OP (rendered at all).

She's watching you!