Tied Up in Knotts Ch. 08

CuriousAudrey,

The only thing that needs to be "chile" is your absurd, idiotic comments. God, is it annoying to see your brainless comments on every chapter.

Also, I think with what happens in future chapters, it's been teased a lot from these early chapters. Nash seems to be afraid of finding out the answers. Examples such as not checking up if Lee is truly happy throughout their marriage, as mentioned during the first confrontation about the cheating and he expected Lee to say it first. The same thing happens with Penn. He doesn't know anything about the Cam situation, but he never did the confrontation on Penn about it. Combine this with his tendency to run away from problems, it causes the mess in future chapters.

Doesn't help that his "I don't want to ask" habit is the complete opposite of Penn's "go on, talk to me." Both of them sure have issues that can be sorted out, and it's a bit sad that the epilogue seems to be too early. A great ending, but I wish it would cover a bit more on how they get through these issues.

I can’t help but ctfu about any reader who treats this fictional story as though it’s real life lol it shouldn’t be that difficult to process some theory of why Penn hangs out with Nash so much or why his family is so eager to be around him.. I’m personally leaning towards Penn always having feelings for Nash, especially when he admitted to him that he never liked Lee from their younger years. Perhaps from jealous of him getting to be with the one man he’s always wanted..

I'm really curious how this is going to play out. Penn and Cam look like they have a mutual agreement for her to be his 'Beard' and/or have an open relationship, and it looks like everyone in the Knott family knows that.

So why can't they just tell Nash so he doesn't feel like a cheater and start a relationship with him, and why would Penn need a Beard? Looks like the entire family and even Cam wants them together.

I can't be happy for Nash and Penn until I understand what's happening with Penn and Cam. Also not him trying to convince himself and us that what him an Penn have is innocent flirtation chile

Thought I’d add a comment to Anonymous who is upset about Penn having sex with Jason and then the casual way him and Nash talk about it. I can definitely understand why that’s hard to read. You want them to have it all. In a perfect world Penn would get Nash as his first and last. But it’s not a perfect world. Penn had Nash on a pedestal and it wasn’t healthy. When things went south, he needed to distance himself. Nash had already been a long shot, should Penn have waited longer? Penn’s insecurities weren’t going to let him chase after Nash just to be rejected again. Jason was the space he needed. Nash already owned so much of Penn. Long term, I think it’s okay that Penn didn’t wait for Nash. What they have is so much bigger than virginity.

Also, how should the conversation about sex go? It’s two middle age men. Nash can’t be mad about Penn sleeping with Jason and Penn shouldn’t feel bad about it. Nash was the one who walked away. I like that they can talk about sex causally. I think it should maturity. It shouldn’t have to be a deep and emotional thing. It was done. It was the past. Time to move on. They need to focus on the future. That’s what really matters.

First of all, I have to say that waiting for the next chapters is what gets me through the week. It’s doing wonders for my mental health.

Second of all, I cried during the yovo meeting just like I cried for the baseball fanfic by the same author. I love their work so much. The characters are complex, the story is well written and entertaining and there aren’t a lot of sex scenes.

I don’t know about everyone but I love Penn and Nash’s relationship as it is right now, an ambiguous platonic relationship and I don’t mind if it stays that way. With that said, I’m also interested to see how it evolves into a romance. I can’t wait to see how the author will manage that.

I found this to be an entertaining chapter.... :). I liked the party with Penn and the sexy costumes, and all!

Reading the comment from another about Paul maybe blackmailing Lee made me realize I must have missed something earlier. I couldn’t understand why Paul was acting so immature- I had thought or assumed maybe Lee was lying to him too... so that maybe he felt like he had a real grievance against Nash (?). But Lee certainly seems to have become very selfish, or maybe has always been very selfish... hard to believe that Nash wouldn’t ever notice that, despite the inequalities with sex and time he had actually noticed..

I’m still rooting for Penn, which is (part of) why I’m enjoying this chapter. (Besides the generally excellent writing!) But hearing there are many mountains to climb before then make me wonder what is going on with Penn!

Thanks to all of you who comment and give me more to enjoy thinking about while we wait for the next installment~!

I hope for Nash’s sake that there is a solid reason for Lee’s abominable behavior. Lee appears desperately trying to hang on to his relationship with Nash, but also wants to subdue Nash into accepting the inevitable. Whatever the inevitable is.

Does Paul have a hold over Lee, as he indicated in an earlier chapter (“blackmail”)? Hopefully time will tell.

Love the story..

I hope this story begins to start feeling better soon! Having been betrayed by my life partner many years ago I feel for Nash! He is a decent man, and has all but lost everything in his life, but his amazing friends and of Couse Penn!

I can't even believe the way Lee and Paul have acted about this nightmare they have brought upon all involved! How dare Lee bitch and moan about how the admission to the affair has effected Paul! I understand all to well the feeling of doubt that anything that has been shared between Nash and Lee has even been real! Who else has Lee cheated with... has everything they have shared been a Big Lie! Very normal feelings to have after such a pathetic and very sad betrayal! Nash should ruin Lee, take everything he can get from him financially!

The way that Paul has acted and the problems he has attempted to caused for Nash with the committee and his job is unforgivable! It does now seem it was much of a shock to Paul's wife!

Kind of strange for Penn to appear in Nash's bedroom after he finally left the party with his wife being at the party! Maybe she passed out! Looking forward t reading more!

Its time to see some real consequences for Lee and Paul now that the dirty secret affair has been exposed!