Susan catches the bus into town at a.m. she sits on the back seat. she looks at The man in front's and thinks how his fat wrinkled 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 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 bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is on the high street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds someone has emptied about a million 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 except it was all the Shoppers and that were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' still thinking about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party week. there were some german exchange students there who were very Mature; they all up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them 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 drunk as 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 passed the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then trying to them pay For them. she used to in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys when She was to be working. she wasn't 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 into pubs on my own. or it could me to a town where People with black hair special brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a time to look up my skirt. oh, they'll be queuing up to 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 people with a within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one to jump into her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a 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 always ended up off the bus at The terminus and walking home.