Susan catches the bus into at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the back seat. she looks at The man in front's head and how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large carrot out from the collar of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if they twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't bother going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their arms 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 rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a packets of Dried on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers were floating passed the window 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 german exchange students there who were very Mature; they all ended up 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 because she drunk too Much cider. caroline was drunk as well; she was pretending she was married to a boy In glasses, and she had to wear a polo-neck for three days afterwards to up the on her neck. by now the bus is going passed the market. outside is a man who Spends all day felt-tip pens into 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 when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus won't stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll on It until I'm old enough to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a where People with black hair 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 with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about 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 corner and let her up the room, their hands and backsides in front of her, and then slagging her off around town. No-one ever got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The and then walking home.