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. maybe she shouldn't going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is on the high street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like has emptied about a million packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just like being in an aquarium it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating passed the window instead of ' She's still thinking about this when the bus passed caroline lee's house where there Was a last week. there were some german exchange students there who were very Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them 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 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 into people's hands and trying to make them pay For them. she used to 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, 'and stay on It until I'm old enough to go pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town where People with black hair drink special 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 girl stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about people with a fire within and all stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's that no-one dared to jump into 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 front of her, and then slagging her off town. No-one ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always up getting off the bus at The terminus and then home.