Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the seat. she looks at The man in front's head and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a carrot out from 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 will 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 to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it begins 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, it was just 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 caroline lee's house there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange there who were very Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of tried to get her To kiss him on the stairs, so she kicked him. she was sick because she drunk too Much cider. was drunk as well; 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 Love-bite on her neck. by now the bus is passed the market. outside is a man who all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then trying to make them pay For them. she used to in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys when She was supposed to be working. she too bothered though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe bus won't 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 with black hair drink special brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a 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 those days. they talk about people 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 Have 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. No-one ever really got inside susan, and, and, she ended up getting off the bus at The and then walking home.