Susan catches the bus into at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the back seat. she looks at The man in front's and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large 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 them look bigger, whilst the boys be too busy football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it begins To rain and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million packets of Dried on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just 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 german exchange students 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. 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 a polo-neck for three days afterwards 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 pens into people's 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 to be working. she wasn't 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 special brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five 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. talk about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that dared 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 inside susan, and, and, she always ended up off the bus at The terminus and then home.