Sydneys POV

"Hello?" I said pressing the phone to my ear. My whole body felt tense.

Adrian had opened the door for me and I got inside.

"Where are you?" my father shouted in his usual tone.

I sat down and tried to calm myself with a deep breath.

"New York. Where else would I be?" I said sharing a look with Adrian who now was sitting next to me.

His tense body and his worried face mirrored mine.

"Don´t lie to me" he said. He was sounding angry now.

"I´m not" I said trying to sound neutral.

"I can see that you are in Oklahoma, so tell me! What on earth you are doing there" he yelled.

I gulped. How did he know? It only took me a brief second to understand. He must be tracking my phone.

"We need to go" I mouthed to Adrian, who frowned again but got up immediately.

"Oklahoma?" I asked to play out time.

I caught hold of Adrians hand who followed me without questioning my actions.

"Why would I be in Oklahoma?" I asked gesturing him to the reception.

He jogged away to pay the bill.

"Sydney. Enough. Who´s with you?" he than asked through gritted teeth.

"Okay fine, I´m with a friend. Her name is Katie and we just wanted to have some fun, so we..."

He interrupted me "I told you! Don´t you dare lie to me" he yelled again.

Adrian was back by now and we were on our way to the car.

We needed to leave, now.

We reached the car in only a few seconds and only moments later we were inside.

I was still thinking about weather I should respond or just throw the phone out the window.

I choose to get rid of the phone right now, so I opened the window, threw out the phone, closed the window again and put my hand on my mouth. Shocked about everything that had just happened.

"That´s one way to end a conversation" Adrian muttered when he started the car.

"He knows" I whispered.

Adrian looked at me "He knows nothing" he said "calm down. He just knows you´re in Oklahoma. That is what? About 20 hours away from Palm Springs? He doesn´t know shit" he said taking my hand, squeezing it softly.

I looked at him "18 hours!" I corrected him "Well a bit longer if you take the..."

"Really? That´s what you want to talk about?" he interrupted me giving me a look.

"You´re right... sorry" I said.

I pressed my hand on my mouth again. Still unable to think straight.

"He knew I was in Oklahoma Adrian" I whispered clutching his hand after a few minutes.

My head was spinning.

Adrians POV

I felt her hand tightening around mine and I looked at her. She was looking on the road, her expression was tense.

"He knew I was lying" she went on still in a low voice.

"He has no proof to that" I said, knowing exactly I couldn´t be sure about that.

Sydney gave me a look that said she was thinking exactly the same.

I opened my window and threw my phone out, too.

"What are you doing?" she asked watching me.

"Not risking to be tracked again" I said.

She stayed silent after that and I kept driving. We left the city and I decided to stay off main roads. It would be safer that way.

"Where are we going?" she asked after a long time.

"As far away as possible" I said and she nodded.

"Good, that´s good" she muttered still watching the road in front of us.

We kept on driving for the next 3 hours. We both didn´t talk much.

"You´re driving north" Sydney stated after a while and I nodded.

"If he thinks you´re on your way to Palm Springs, and we still can´t be sure about that, he´ll expect you around Amarillo. So I´m definitely not going there" I said.

She nudged me "Hey, you really know your geography, don´t you?" she asked and actually smiled at me.

I pulled her closer and put an arm around her "Impressed?" I asked smirking.

"Very" she said leaning against my shoulder and wrapping her arms around me.

"You want me to drive?" she asked after a while.

I shook my head "It´s okay. I´m not tired. You sleep" I said.

She looked at me in disbelief "You really expect me to sleep now?" she asked.

"You should try. I will get tired at some point" I said.

I was determined to bring as many miles between Oklahoma and us as possible, even if it meant I was driving the whole night.

I knew the alchemists had their resources and I also knew they were smart. After all, Sydney had learned from them.

We were driving on a deserted road in the middle of nowhere, what was comforting on the one side because most likely, no one expected us there, but on the other hand we also were on show if someone did come our way.

Sydney had closed her eyes a couple of times and had tried to sleep, but hadn´t succeeded.

I already regretted my hasty decision to throw my phone out of the car without thinking about saving any numbers.

Good thing I could reach people in their dreams.

I really should have known better than think, that we could just get to Palm Springs without nobody caring about that.