A thousand splendid suns

Laila is not 13 years old andafter 5 years of her brothers been dead, Laila's mother finally gets out of bed and decides to throw a party. At the party, Tariq and Laila run off together and Tariq tells her that he only has eyes for her. To her this was good to hear, but she was still a little weirded out by how much hes changed. So one day when they were walking in the streets together, Tarique showerd Laila his gun. Quickly, she seemed frightend. Then Tarique told her that he would onl use it for her safety, then he held her hand and kissed her. From then on, everyday they would see eachother and kiss; they were truely in love.
When the war started to progress, rockets started landing very close to where Laila's home was. Because of this, Babi(her father) out of his will decided to take her out of school because it was just too dangerous. A couple days later, Laila's friends had been walking home from school and a rocket landed right on them. This was the first time she had cried in a while...she didnt cry at her brothers funeral, so all the tears came out now. Then a few weeks after that, Tariq came to her house and told her that he was leaving for afghanistan...tomorrow. Laila slapped him twice and pulled at his hair. Then suddenly their foreheads touched eachother, hand on each others faces, and then they started to kiss; then it progressed to the living room floor where they made love. Tariq asked her to marry him; to go away with him so they could be together, but Laila thought about leaving her after and mother and she just couldnt bear it because she was all they had left now. She told him no, so they departed from eachother. 17 days later, Laila heard her dad yelping with joy from upstairs. "We can finally go! Your mother has agreed!." Laila's mother finally agreed to letting them leave because it was getting too dangerous. This was good to hear for Laila because she then would get to be with Tariq. While they were packing and getting ready to go, Laila stepped outside the house...thinking about Tariq and what was going to come. Then all of a sudden a big flash of white light came to her and she found herself flying in the air; debree flying at her face, blows to her body coming from everywhere, then hitting the ground very fast, getting a piece of metal embeded in her shoulder. When she opened her eyes, she could see a woman giving her pills, they fixing up her cutts. This woman happened to be Mariam.
Mariam and Rasheed happen to save Laila from this horrible tragedy that killed her parents. "I cant hear" she told the woman Mariam. Laila had gone deaf in one of her ears, and was badly cut & bruised everywhere. Mariam thought to herself of how Laila was so lucky to be alive. Even if that was true, Laila couldnt help but blame herself. "I should have been in the house" she thought to herself. Her parents werent the ones who deserved to di she thought. Then one day while she was healing at Mariam&Rasheed's home, a man came to the door asking for her. He told her that he had met a young boy named Tariq in the hospital and that he use to tell him so many stories abut Laila. He then explained to her how e told Tariq he would be going to Kabul, so Tariq asked him to visit Laila and tell her that he misses and loves her so much. Unfortunately, the day before he left for Kabul, he saw doctors rushing around Tariq's bed. He then later asked the nurse why his bed was empty; "he fought very hard" she said. Tariq was truely dead. Everything in Laila's life and what she was feeling was dead.