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 thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a 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 shouldn't bother to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard with arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys be too busy football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million 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 instead of ' She's still thinking about this the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party week. there were some german exchange students there who were very Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the 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. 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 days afterwards to cover up the on her neck. by now the bus is going passed the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's and then trying to make them pay For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too bothered though, she hated the 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 drink brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a time to up my skirt. oh, they'll be queuing up to take me out to Dinner...' I suppose you think just a silly girl with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's that no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in front of her, and slagging her off around town. No-one ever got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The and then walking home.