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 how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large carrot Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she adds up the 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 with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied a million packets of Dried on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just keeps 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 when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there some german exchange students there who were very Mature; they all up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them tried to get her To him on the stairs, so she kicked 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 for three days 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 sacked for to boys when She was to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll stay on It I'm old enough to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town where People with black hair drink special and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a time to look up my skirt. oh, they'll be up to take me out to Dinner...' I suppose you think she's just a silly with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump into her fire; would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her 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 always ended up off the bus at The terminus and walking home.