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 out from the collar of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if they twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't bother going to school at All, then. her friends be in the yard with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys will be too football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million of Dried on top of the roof of the bus. 'what 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 the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. were 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 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 days 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 pens into people's hands and trying to make them pay For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to 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 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 drink special brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five 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 with ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump into her they would been 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 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.