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 like a large Sticking out from the of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if they make twenty-one, but they don't. she shouldn't bother going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their 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 when suddenly it begins To rain and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. 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 were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students who were very Mature; all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them tried to get her To him on the stairs, so she kicked him. later she was sick because she drunk too cider. caroline 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 afterwards to cover up the Love-bite on her neck. by now the bus is passed the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip into people's hands and then 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 bus won't stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll stay on It I'm old enough to go into 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 you think she's 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 that no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and in front 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 walking home.