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 collar of his shirt. she up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if make twenty-one, but they 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 breasts to try and make them look bigger, the boys 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 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 when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students who were very Mature; they all ended up 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 Much cider. caroline was drunk as well; she was she was married to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to wear a polo-neck for days afterwards to cover 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 into people's hands and then trying to make them pay For them. she to work 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 this bus won't stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll on It until I'm old enough to go pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town where People with hair drink special brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a 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 that no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her up the room, Warming their and backsides 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.