Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the back seat. she at The man in head and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large carrot 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. maybe she shouldn't going to school at All, then. her will be in the yard with their arms folded on their chests, their 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 high street when it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds someone has emptied about a million packets of peas 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 except it was all the Shoppers and that were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus 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 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. 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 days 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 pens into hands and then 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 bothered though, she 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 black hair drink special brew and I can make lots of money by 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 a silly girl with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in days. they talk about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump 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 front of her, and then slagging her off town. No-one ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always up getting off the bus at The terminus and then home.