Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the seat. she looks at The man in front's head and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large 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. she shouldn't bother going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like has emptied about a million packets of peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just like in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating the window instead of fish? ' still thinking about this when 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 kicked him. she was sick because she drunk too Much cider. caroline was drunk as 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 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 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 into pubs on my own. or it could me to a town where People with black hair drink special brew and I can make 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 girl with stupid 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 fire; they Have consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in of her, and then 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.