Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the back seat. she at The man in head and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large carrot Sticking out from the of his shirt. she adds 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 be in the yard with their arms folded on their chests, their breasts 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 when suddenly it To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied 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 office-workers that were floating the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes passed lee's house where there Was a last week. there were some german exchange students there who were very Mature; they all 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 she drunk too Much cider. caroline was drunk as 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 passed the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into hands and then trying to make them pay For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys She was to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe 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 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 silly 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 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 hands and backsides 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 walking home.