Susan the bus into 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 is like a large carrot Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she 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 yard with their arms folded on chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make look bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it To rain torrentially and it sounds like 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, it was just like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were floating 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. there were some exchange students there who were very Mature; they all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them to get her To kiss him on the stairs, so she kicked him. later she was because she drunk too Much cider. caroline was drunk as well; she was pretending she was married to a boy In glasses, and she had to wear a polo-neck for three days afterwards to up the Love-bite on her neck. by now the bus is passed the market. outside 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 in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys when She was supposed to be working. she too bothered though, she hated the smell 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 pubs on my own. or it 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 silly girl stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in front of her, and slagging her off around town. No-one ever really got inside susan, and, and, she always up getting off the bus at The and then walking home.