Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the 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 they make twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't bother going to 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 will be too busy Playing 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 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? ' She's 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; all ended 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 well; she was pretending she was married to a 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 passed the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then to make them pay For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for to boys when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the 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 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 about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's that no-one dared to jump into her fire; 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 slagging her off town. No-one ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up off the bus at The terminus and walking home.