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 out from 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. she shouldn't bother going to school at All, then. her will be in the yard with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make look bigger, whilst the boys will 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 million of Dried on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just 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 house where Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students who were very Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the 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 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 people's hands and then 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 too bothered though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus won't stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll on It until I'm old to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town where People with black hair drink special brew and I can make lots of money by fat old Men five pounds a time to look up my skirt. oh, they'll be queuing up to me out to Dinner...' I suppose you think she's just a silly with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. talk about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just 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, their hands and backsides in front of her, and then 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.