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 like a large Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she adds up the on her bus ticket to See if they make twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't bother to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their arms folded on chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys be too busy Playing to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it begins To rain and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating passed the window instead of ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes passed lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were german exchange students there who were very they 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 because she drunk too Much cider. caroline was 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 on her neck. by now the bus is going passed the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing pens into people's hands and then trying 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, 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 lots of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a time to look up my skirt. oh, be queuing up to take me out to Dinner...' I suppose you she's just a silly girl with stupid ideas, but i her in those days. they talk about 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 fire; they Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her 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 then home.