Susan catches the bus into town at a.m. she sits on the back seat. she looks at The man in front's and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is like a large carrot Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she adds up the on her bus ticket to See if make twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't bother going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their arms 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 waiting on the street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied a million packets of Dried peas on top of the 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 and office-workers that were floating passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still 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 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 him. later she was sick 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 a polo-neck 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 to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking 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 stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll stay on It until I'm old to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a town where People with black hair drink special brew and I can make lots of money by 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 think she's just a silly girl with ideas, but i Remember her in those days. they talk about people with a fire and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. just that no-one dared to jump into her fire; they would been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her heat up the room, Warming their hands and backsides in front of her, and then slagging her off town. No-one really got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The and then walking home.