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 a large carrot Sticking out the collar 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 friends will be in the yard their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and them look bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it like 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 like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and that were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a last week. there were some german exchange students there who were very Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them to get her To kiss him on the stairs, so she kicked him. later she was 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 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 pens into people's and then 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 too bothered though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus won't stop,' she thinks, I'll stay on It until I'm old enough to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town People with black hair drink special brew and I can make 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 just a silly girl with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about people with a fire and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump into her fire; they Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a and let her heat up the room, Warming their and backsides in front of her, and then slagging her off around town. No-one ever got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and walking home.