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 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 bother going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their arms folded on chests, Shielding their to try and make them 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 and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million packets of Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. if it just keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating passed the window of fish? ' She's thinking 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 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 cider. caroline was drunk as well; she was pretending she was married to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to a polo-neck for three days afterwards to cover up the Love-bite on her neck. by now the bus is passed the market. outside 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 work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe 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 drive me to a town where People with black 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 stupid ideas, but i her in those days. they talk 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; they Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a and let her heat up the room, Warming hands and backsides in front of her, and then slagging her off around town. ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and walking home.