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 from the 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 bother going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make look bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds someone has emptied about 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 just like being in an aquarium it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating passed the window instead of ' She's still about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there 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 to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to wear a 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 when She was to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus won't stop,' she thinks, I'll stay on It until I'm old enough to go into pubs on my own. or it 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 just a silly girl with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump into her they would Have consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, their hands and backsides in front of her, and then slagging her off around town. No-one really got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and walking home.