Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the back seat. she at The man in front's head and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large 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 bother to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it To rain torrentially and it 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 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 the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were some german students there who were very Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the 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 she was pretending she was married to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to a polo-neck for three days 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 felt-tip pens 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 talking to boys She was supposed to be working. she too bothered though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. this 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 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 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 her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in front of her, and slagging her off around town. No-one ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always up getting off the bus at The terminus and walking home.