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 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 shouldn't bother to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their arms folded on 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 about a million packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just like being in an 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 german exchange students there who were very Mature; 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 three days 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 into people's hands and trying to make them pay For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys 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 enough to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town People with black drink special brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a time to 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. 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 consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in front of her, and 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.