More Than Human Part 1, Section 16 Summary

  • Now Janie's five. She's playing with two female toddlers, Bonnie and Beanie, by trying to spit on them from a high window as they squeak and tumble around on a courtyard. Pretty mean, but then again, she is five.
  • The two toddlers tend to take off their rompers and teleport. Janie discovers that when the rompers are off, she can move them with her mind, a power called telekinesis. Janie messes with the toddlers by moving their rompers around while they chase them.
  • One day Janie lifts the rompers out of the squeaking twins' reach and a black janitor, apparently the twins' father, comes out from the basement and spanks Bonnie and Beanie for, as he imagines it, throwing away their clothes.
  • The section concludes by saying Janie has no more fun that day.