Maryling Flores and Christian Davila were teenage sweethearts, forbidden by her mother from dating.
The pain of separation was so deep, they wrote in parting notes, that they chose to end their lives, together.Police believe the two bodies they found floating in a canal Tuesday were those of Maryling and Christian, honor students at Ruben Dario middle school.
"We don't suspect any foul play," said detective Ramon Quintero, a friend of the Flores family. "The mother of the girl did not want the boy seeing her daughter."
Christian was 14, Maryling 13.
"It's a Romeo and Juliet story," said Quintero. "This is as sad a case as you can find."
Family members told police the teenagers ran away from their homes early Sunday morning, carrying little money and no extra clothes.
Both left behind suicide notes.
"I can't go on living. I've lost my Maryling. That's something that hurts me very deep inside in my heart," Christian wrote in his note to his family.
"I'm not leaving you. I'm escaping from the realm of reality into the darkness of the unknown. Nothing can stop me now. I'm taking my life because without Maryling, there is no life."
Maryling's note was left on her family's kitchen counter.
"You'll never be able to understand the love between me and Christian," she wrote to her parents. "I feel that without him I can't live. Why is it you were never able to understand me? Or is it that you live to make my life miserable?"
The children probably drowned themselves, Quintero said.
"I love you all very much," Maryling wrote. "I'd like to ask for your forgiveness, but I know you will never understand me."