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 up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if they make twenty-one, but 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 will be too busy Playing to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it begins To torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million packets of peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating passed the window of fish? ' She's still thinking this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a last week. there were some german exchange students there who were very Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of tried to get her To kiss him on the stairs, so she kicked him. later she was sick because she 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 three days to cover up the on her neck. by now the bus is going 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 talking to when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus 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 lots of money by charging 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 she's just a silly girl with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in days. they talk about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one to jump into her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming hands and backsides in front of her, and then slagging her off around town. No-one ever really got inside susan, and, and, she ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and then home.