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 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, 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 torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. 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 passed the window of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students there who were 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 because she drunk too Much cider. caroline was drunk as well; she was pretending she was 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 going passed the market. is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then trying to them pay For them. she to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she the smell of the anyway. 'maybe 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 with 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 silly girl stupid ideas, but i Remember her in days. they talk about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a and let her heat up the room, their hands and backsides in front of her, and then slagging her off around town. No-one ever really got susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The and then walking home.