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 neck is a large carrot Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus to See if they make twenty-one, but don't. maybe she shouldn't 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 look bigger, whilst the boys will be too Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street 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 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 week. there were some german exchange students there who were very they all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them tried to get her To kiss him on the stairs, so she kicked him. later she was sick because she too cider. caroline was drunk as well; she was pretending she was married to a tall boy In glasses, and she had to wear a polo-neck for three 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 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 to boys when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus won't stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll on It until I'm old enough to go pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town where People with black hair drink special brew and I can make of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a 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 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 jump 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 then slagging her off town. No-one ever really got susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and walking home.