Susan the bus into town 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 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 yard with arms folded on their chests, their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied 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 except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's thinking about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. were some 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 him on the stairs, so she kicked him. later she was sick because she drunk 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 going passed the market. is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and trying to make them pay For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got for talking to boys when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. this bus won't stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll stay on It until I'm old enough to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town People with black hair drink special brew and I can make 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 girl with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about people with a fire within and all stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in front of her, and slagging her off around town. ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and then home.