Giggling, Kitty bowed and took her seat beside him, her own smile following suit as they moved on to more serious matters. Looking slightly uneasy, and even a little unsure, she glanced down into her lap and picked at the tiny rip starting to form at her knee. "I can't really say for certain, there's just been this inexplicable shift that we're having a hard time recovering from. Staff come and go, we're getting less and less students..." With a small sigh, she shrugged and looked back over to Kurt, wearing a lopsided smile. "We're going through a big ol' rough patch." She tried not to look so worried--deep down she knew things would pick up again, but still, the worry that it might not crept through her eyes a little.