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 wrinkled is like a large carrot 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 yard with their arms folded on chests, Shielding their 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 suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds someone has emptied about a million packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, it was just like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that 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 week. there were some german exchange students there who were very Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the 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 pretending she was to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to wear a polo-neck for three days afterwards to up the Love-bite on her neck. by now the bus is going the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip into people's 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 too bothered though, she hated 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 into 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 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 with 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 just that no-one dared to jump her fire; they would been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and in front of her, and then slagging her off around town. ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and then home.