Susan catches the bus 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 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. maybe she 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 will 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 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 that were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this 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 ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of 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 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 all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then trying to make them pay For them. she used to in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys when She was to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the smell 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 me to a town where People with hair drink special brew and I can make lots 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 silly girl with ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about people with a fire and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump into her 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 always ended up off the bus at The and then walking home.