Susan the bus into town at ten-thirty 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 of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus ticket to See if they make twenty-one, but they don't. she shouldn't bother going to school at All, then. her friends will be in the yard 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 street when suddenly it begins To rain torrentially and it sounds 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 floating passed the window instead of ' She's thinking about this when the bus goes passed caroline lee's house where there Was a party last week. there were some german exchange 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 kicked him. she was sick because she drunk too Much cider. was drunk 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 passed the market. outside is a man who Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then trying to make 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. this bus won't 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 brew and I can make lots of money by charging fat old Men five pounds a time to look up my skirt. oh, they'll be 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 with a fire within and all that stuff, Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one 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 backsides in front of her, and slagging her off around town. No-one ever really got susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at The terminus and then home.