Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she 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 they make twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't bother going to at All, then. her will be in the yard with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. if it just keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating passed the instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes passed caroline 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 kiss him on the stairs, so she kicked him. later she was sick because she 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 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 all day forcing felt-tip pens 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 bothered though, she the smell of the Rabbits anyway. this bus won't 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 brew and I can make lots of money 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 she's just a silly girl stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about 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 Have been consumed. instead, put her in a corner 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 then home.