Susan catches the bus 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 a large carrot 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 bother going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard their arms folded on their chests, Shielding breasts to try and make them look 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 Dried on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, it was just like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating passed the window instead of ' She's still thinking about when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students there who 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 she drunk too Much cider. caroline was 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 into people's and then trying to make them pay For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys She was supposed to be working. she too bothered 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 brew and I can make lots of by charging fat old Men five pounds a time to 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 no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a and let her heat up the room, their hands 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 walking home.