Susan catches the bus into at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the back seat. she looks at The man in head and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck 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 they don't. maybe she bother going 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 them bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just like being in an aquarium it was all the and office-workers that were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange students there who were Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of 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 married to a 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 the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then trying to make pay For them. she used to in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys when She was supposed to be working. she too bothered though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. this bus won't 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 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 she's just a silly girl with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to into her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in front of her, and slagging her off around town. No-one really got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and walking home.