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 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 waiting on the 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 roof of the bus. 'what if it keeps 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 passed the instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes passed lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were some exchange students there who were very 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 him. later she was sick because she drunk too Much cider. caroline was drunk as well; she was pretending she was to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to wear a polo-neck for 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 felt-tip pens 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 talking to when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the 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. talk about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's that no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would Have consumed. instead, they put her in a corner 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 really got susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and then home.