Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she on the back seat. she looks at The man in front's head and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is a large carrot Sticking out the collar of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if they make twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't bother going to at All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their arms on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys will be too Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street suddenly it begins To rain and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. if it just keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just like being in an except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students who were very Mature; they all ended up out of the bedroom window. one of them tried to get her To him on the stairs, so she kicked him. later she was sick because she drunk too Much cider. caroline was as well; she was pretending she was married to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to a polo-neck for three days afterwards to cover up the Love-bite on her neck. by now the bus is going the market. outside is a man who all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then trying to make them pay For them. she to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll stay on It I'm old enough to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town where People black hair drink special brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a time to look up my skirt. oh, they'll be queuing up to me out to Dinner...' I suppose you think she's just a silly girl with ideas, but i Remember her in days. they talk about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that dared to jump into her fire; they would been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming hands and backsides in front of her, and then slagging her off around town. No-one really got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The and then walking home.