Susan catches the bus into town at a.m. she sits on the back seat. she looks at The man in front's head and 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 they make twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't bother going to at All, then. her will be in the yard with their arms folded on their chests, Shielding their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the 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 someone 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, it was just like being in an aquarium except it was all the Shoppers and office-workers that were passed the window instead of fish? ' She's still thinking 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; they all up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them 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 as well; she was pretending she was married to a tall 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 going passed the market. is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and trying to make them pay For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to boys She was supposed to be working. she too bothered though, she hated the smell of the anyway. 'maybe this bus won't stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll stay on It until I'm old enough to go 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 stupid ideas, but i Remember her in those days. talk about people with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one dared to jump 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 of her, and then slagging her off around town. No-one ever really got inside susan, and, and, she ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and walking home.