Growing up living next to each other (so close that one wall was common to both), Thisbe and Pyramus fell in love with each other. Their parents forbade them to marry or even to speak to each other, but they found a small crack in the wall that separated their two houses and would speak to each other through it. One day they decided that they would flee their houses and meet under a tall mulberry tree. Thisbe made it to the tree and waited for Pyramus but ran away when she saw a fierce lion who apparently had just killed as her mouth was stained with fresh blood. As thisbe ran away, she dropped her cloack. The lion tore it apart before escaping to the woods. When Pyramus finally did show up, all he found was the bloody and torn cloak of Thisbe's. Beliveing her killed by some beast, he stabbed himself with his knife. Thisbe ran back only to find Pyramus seconds from his death. She grabbed his knife and killed herself with it.