Chapter 58 - Study Date

After our wonderful meal last night Minjae and I decided to start studying for our finals at the library together today.

We only had two courses together, Literature and Law and then the other two separate.

I had English Language and Commerce while he had Architectural and Biology Science.

I had already completed the mandatory courses over the last 3 years so I only had these ones left which I considered to be the easy ones.

I already the Architectural and Biology but I honestly had no recollection of what I was taught so I wasn't of much help.

Minjae, luckily was a smart guy so he didn't really need my help.

We just needed to get through all the law topics then review the books of Literature then we are free for the rest of the day.

Both Minjae and I were busy in our books when he asked me a question, "hey Tally, what are your thoughts on the Case Barrett v Barret 1938?"

I thought hard about the case trying to bring up any recollection that I had to help me better understand and explain, "well since they are a married couple I would say, under Land Law they were Co-owners."

This didn't seem to have fully answered his question in depth that he wanted for he asked me another question, " yes I know that they were Co-owners but what kind of tenancy do they have? I have always confused Joint Tenancy with Tenancy in common."

I removed the book from my face placing it on the desk and clasped my hands together thinking, "well I would say, from my memory and own perspective that its a joint tenancy because the land was transferred to them via fee simple and they had the four unties required, which I know you know and there was a right to survivorship (jus accrescendi)."

He shook his head slowly pretending to understand but I was sure that he hasn't quite gotten it yet, "okay but just so that we are clear, what are the four unities and what is the right to survivorship?"

I lightly chuckled leaning my head to the side patting him on his, "the four unities are time, title, interest and possession. The right to survivorship is that upon the death of one of the tenants, their interest is automatically accrued to the surviving tenant so that they have no interest to transfer via will or intestacy. It's sad really. Imagine having a kid and wanting for them to be set for life with your money when you die but instead of them having the right to claim it the person who you shared the tenancy with can only claim it. In this case I guess its alright in a sense seeing as they were married, maybe they had kids together and maybe the survivor actually cares for the kid and takes care of it. Does that help?"

"Wow! It actually did! Thank you!" he said sounding grateful and I smirked in satisfaction. Yeah I was awesome. 

We both returned to our state of silence reviewing our notes, reading books and highlighting.

I was getting bored by the second and Minjae obviously was too, but not only was I bored, but I was also hungry as hell.

"Minjae," I softly called out, "you hungry?"

"I thought you would never ask" he said eagerly which was way too loud.

"Shh!!" erupted from all around us from stressed out students and I had to mouth "sorry" on behalf of Minjae.

We quietly as we could packed up our stuff to leave and I had to suppress my laughter when Minjae's foot got caught on his bag strap and he fell to the floor with a loud thud.

We were receiving glares from all over and I was embarrassed but also full of joy.

I helped a sheepish Minjae from off the ground untangling his back pack ad we exited the library with out a single glance back.

"Ah!" exclaimed Minjae as soon as we were out of ear shot, "that was so embarrassing."

I snickered at him and he gave me a deathly side eye that instantly shut me up.

"Anyways, I am famished. What are we having?" he asked rubbing his tummy when I got a really bright idea.

"Hey why don't we go to an amusement park? We have been studying for the whole day and I think that it would be healthy and best to have some fun."

"Hmm," he said thinking about about it looked up to him clasping my hands as a sign of me begging please, "oh okay. But no dangerous ride!"

"Yay!" I exclaimed jumping for joy but then he placed his hand on my shoulder restraining my movements, "what is it?"

"Do I have to remind you every time that you are pregnant?" he scolded.

Oh, yeah.

I took down my excitement a notch and followed him to his car.

I haven't been to an amusement park in over two years and I was really excited to play some games and win a few plushies. George would love the company and so would I.

We did carpool Karaoke on our way there, wearing our seatbelts and took the necessary precautions to avoid any accidents. 

It was a fair Saturday so it was expected that it would have been crowded.

I didn't mind the crowd though for I was too excited to care about anything else other than winning. 

Our first stop was at at shooting booth and my first target was the cute little elephant.

I paid the operator the fee and got geared up handing my bag to Minjae.

I took a deep breath positioning myself to begin, closing one eye, aiming then fired.

I had knocked a cup down on the first try so I only had two more left.

I repositioned myself and aimed then fire hitting the second one then repeating for the third one.

Minjae was really impressed by my aim and I just smirked at the operator when he handed me my prize looking shocked.

"Why? Didn't expect a lady to do this good?" I asked calling him out and he furiously shook his head no and I smirked even wider knowing that I made him uncomfortable.

"Wow! That was awesome. Really good aim. I could have made that shot but you know, I fell earlier and all. Probably banged up my wrist" said Minjae handing me my bag.

I looked at the bag then back at him handing him my new toy then turned into the direction of another booth, "you coming bag boy or what?"

He did a little jog in an attempt to catch up to me while I had already paid the operator and was getting geared up.

This time I was shooting with my hands and the prize at stake was a giant bear.

I wanted-no needed that bear.

I took a deep breath closing my eyes to try and concentrate before throwing the bawl to knock down the pins.

Pin after pin was how it went earning me the giant bear.

I had attracted a good size crowd by now, marveling at my achievements and I smirked loving the attention.

The boys competing gave me dirty looks of jealous but that only fueled my competitiveness even more filling Minjae's hands with more and more plushies. 

The little girls gushed and pointed when they saw my winnings and I decided to win even more for them.

I was running out of money to play the games but that was good since Minjae couldn't go two seconds with out dropping my stuff.

The food was on Minjae so I decided after what must be my 100th time winning that I should at least be considerate of others and top winning.

A little girl ran up to my feet staring up at me with her big doe eyes.

She was so scary to look at for she stayed there staring up at me with out blinking.

I gave her one of my teddy bears and she gladly took it smiling and ran to her mom.

Her mom smiled at me and I smiled back feeling happy that she was happy.

Minjae had bought us corndogs and Odengs and I got instant flash back of that day at the Han River when I punched that guy.

"So are you having fun?" asked Minjae taking a bite into his corndog huffing and puffing at how hot it was fighting with the cheese as it kept stretching. 

I laughed at taking a bite of my Odeng only to be aught in the same situation as huffing and puffing as he did.

It was his turn to laugh and I punched him on the shoulder, "ow!"

"Yeah" I replied after a while, "I did have fun. Thank you."

He smiled at me handing me a bottle of water and I took it and immediately opened it taking a big gulp.

"I'm glad you had fun. You deserve it."

"Yeah I do don't I?" I asked and we both laughed before returning to finish our food.