Chapter 6
Chapter 6 — The Room You're Standing In
Rolandas sits with Regina's message for a day before replying. He meets Zvonkus, who offers final pragmatic advice. Rolandas then meets Regina for a second conversation, where both acknowledge the past honestly without trying to resurrect it. Regina reveals her message came from a moment of unresolved feeling, but reaffirms her life with Marius. Rolandas accepts this without embellishment or theater. He later meets Elena, who recognizes the change in him. The chapter and book end with Rolandas alone in his kitchen, having closed the drawer—not dramatically, but quietly—and standing fully in the present room of his life.
He left the phone on the counter for most of the morning.
It wasn't avoidance. Or rather, it wasn't only avoidance. It was the deliberate stillness of a man who had spent decades reacting to impulses and was now, late in the game, learning to pause before reaching. The coffee went cold. He made another cup. He washed a few dishes that didn't need washing, their surfaces already clean, just to keep his hands occupied while something in him settled.
Regina's three words sat on the screen like a stone at the bottom of a clear pool—small, visible, unmoving. Can we talk? Again.
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