Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the seat. she looks at The man in front's and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large carrot Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she adds up the 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 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 sounds like 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, it was just like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and that were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still about 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 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 Much cider. caroline was 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 going the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then trying to make pay For them. she to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the of the anyway. 'maybe 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 black hair drink special brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a time to look up my skirt. oh, 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 people a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump her fire; they would been consumed. instead, they 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. No-one ever got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and walking home.