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 neck is like a large carrot out from the collar of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if they twenty-one, but they 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, their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy Playing football to notice. the bus is waiting on the high when suddenly it begins To rain and it sounds like someone has emptied about a million packets of Dried on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it just keeps raining,' she Thinks to herself, 'and it was just like being in an except it was all the Shoppers and that were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking about this when the bus goes passed lee's house where there Was a party last week. 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 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 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 talking to when She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too though, she hated the smell of the Rabbits anyway. 'maybe this bus won't stop,' she thinks, 'and stay 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 lots of money by charging fat old Men five a time to look up my skirt. oh, they'll be queuing up to take me out to Dinner...' I suppose you she's just a silly girl with 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 that no-one dared to jump into her fire; would Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a and let her heat up the room, their hands and backsides in front 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.