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 Sticking out from the of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus ticket 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 with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is on the high street when suddenly it begins To torrentially 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 like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were passed the window instead of fish? ' She's thinking about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. were some german exchange students there who were very Mature; all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them tried to get her To kiss him on the stairs, so she 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 wear a for three days 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 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 to boys when 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 until I'm old enough to go into on my own. or it could drive me to a town where People with black drink special brew and I can make lots 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 silly with stupid ideas, but i Remember her in days. they talk about people 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 consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and in front of her, and then slagging her off around town. No-one ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up off the bus at The terminus and then home.