Susan catches the bus into town at a.m. she sits on the back seat. she looks at The man in front's head and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large 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 bother going to school at All, then. her will be in the yard with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just like in an aquarium except it was all the and office-workers that were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there some german exchange students there who were very Mature; all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them tried to get her To kiss him on the stairs, so she kicked him. she was sick because she drunk too Much cider. was drunk as well; she was pretending she was married to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to wear a 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 Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens 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 though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus won't stop,' she thinks, I'll stay on It until I'm old enough to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a where People with black hair 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 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 people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in 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 terminus and walking home.