Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the back seat. she at The man in front's head and thinks how his fat neck is like a large carrot out from 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. she shouldn't bother going to school at All, then. her friends be in the yard with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy Playing to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million of peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what 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 passed the window instead of ' She's still thinking this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students there who were Mature; they all up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them tried to get her To kiss him on the stairs, so she kicked him. later she was sick because she too Much cider. caroline was drunk as well; she was she was married to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to wear a polo-neck for three afterwards to cover up the Love-bite on her neck. by now the bus is passed the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then to make them pay For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got 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 won't stop,' she thinks, 'and stay on It until I'm old enough to go into pubs on my own. or it 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, be queuing up to take me out to Dinner...' I suppose you think she's just a silly with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about people a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just no-one 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 ever really got susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and then home.