Susan catches the bus into at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the back seat. she looks at The man in front's head and thinks how his fat neck is like a large carrot Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if make twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't 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 bigger, whilst 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 someone has emptied about a million packets 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 that were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus passed 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 jumping out of the 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. was drunk as well; she was pretending she was married to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to wear a polo-neck for three days 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 then trying to 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 hated the of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus stop,' she thinks, 'and 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 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 she's just a silly girl with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. talk about 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, 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. ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The and then walking home.