By Rachel Quigley PUBLISHED: 16:53 EST, 8 September 2013 | UPDATED: 06:13 EST, 9 September 2013 The missing Michigan teenage runaways who fled together because they did not want to be sent to separate high schools have been discovered safe in Chicago this morning, according to authorities. Jayden Thomas, 13 and Braxton Wood, 14, had been missing since August 26th, when Braxton took his mother's black 2005 Ford Explorer and vanished. The two young lovers were spotted at a gas station near to Wrigley Firled and an anonymous caller informed the Chicago police who arrived to find the teens in the back of the vehicle in a parking lot adjacent to the station.
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Jayden Thomas, 13, and Braxton Wood, 14, found living in SUV near the lake front of Chicago on Sunday morning
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They were last seen on Monday, August 26
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Only had $80 between them and some sellable items
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Parents do not know why they would run away but said the six-month relationship was 'too serious'
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Said they could not live without each other
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Jayden's mother told her on the day she ran away that she didn't support the relationship
Missing: @placeholder, right, is described as 5' 3" tall and weighs about 120lbs.