Susan catches the bus into town at a.m. she sits 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 adds up the on her bus ticket to See if they make twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she bother 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 make look bigger, whilst the boys will 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 keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, it was just like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating passed the instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where Was a party last week. there were some german exchange 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 sick because she 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 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 pens into people's hands and then trying to them pay For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll stay on It I'm old enough to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town where People black hair drink special brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men pounds 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 girl with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. talk about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one 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 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 and then walking home.