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 thinks how his fat wrinkled 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 twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't bother going to school at All, then. her friends be in the yard with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is on the high street when suddenly it begins To torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just raining,' she Thinks to herself, it was just like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's where there Was a party last week. there were german exchange students there who were very they all ended up jumping 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 Much cider. 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 used to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for to boys when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe 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 me to a town where People with black hair drink 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 she's just a silly with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about people with a within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. just that no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in 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 then home.