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 thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a carrot 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 going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their arms on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, 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 like someone has emptied about a million packets of Dried peas on top of the 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 of fish? ' She's still thinking this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students there who 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. later she was sick because she too cider. caroline was drunk as well; she was pretending she was married to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to wear a 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 Spends all day forcing felt-tip into people's hands and then trying to make them pay For them. she to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys when She was to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus 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 People with hair drink special brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five a time to look up my skirt. oh, they'll be queuing up to take me out to Dinner...' I you think she's just a silly girl 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 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 ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always up getting off the bus at The and then walking home.