Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she on the back seat. she looks at The man in front's head and thinks how his fat neck is like a large carrot Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if they make twenty-one, but they don't. she shouldn't 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, whilst the boys be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is on the high street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a packets of Dried 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 of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students there who were they all ended up jumping 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 sick 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 polo-neck for three days 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 pens into 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 supposed to be working. she wasn't too 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 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 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 girl stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about people with a fire and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump into her they would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her up the room, Warming their 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 terminus and then home.