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 the collar of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if they make twenty-one, but don't. maybe she shouldn't bother going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million of Dried 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 aquarium it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's where there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students there who were Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them 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 well; she was pretending she was 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 trying 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 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 me to a town where People with black hair drink special brew and I can make 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 think she's just a silly girl with ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about people with a within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would Have consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in of her, and then slagging her off around town. No-one ever really got inside susan, and, and, she ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and then home.