Susan the bus into town 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 wrinkled neck is like a large Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she 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 with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them 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 Dried peas on top of the of the bus. 'what if it just keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating passed the window instead of ' She's thinking about 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; they all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of 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 drunk as she was pretending she was married to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to wear a polo-neck for three days afterwards to up the Love-bite on her neck. by now the bus is going passed the market. 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 sacked for 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 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 brew and I can make lots of by charging fat old Men pounds a time to look up my skirt. oh, they'll be queuing up to take me out to Dinner...' I suppose you think just a silly girl with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump into her fire; would been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their 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.