There was no way to basically say "yeah, no, the blushing is totally cute" and not sound ridiculous or awkward or just kind of forward or whatever, so Sean just smiled instead and shrugged yet again. "It's not so much a big deal anymore."
What was a big deal, however, was coming back to the topic of the weirdness that was their general situation and, frankly, he didn't think he was any more capable of making it make sense now than he had been before. If he had to, though, he'd try. "Uh." Yes, that made for an ever so auspicious beginning. "I guess, to start with, I should just say welcome to Red Oak? Things are kind of just weird here in general." He wrinkled his nose, thinking about it, then sighed. "All right, so, here's the thing. Far as I know, it used to be this small town, totally normal. Then people just started showing. You know, the same way we did."
That was where he had to pause again, had to really figure out how to word this next part, stopping dead in his tracks as he looked over at Kitty with an expression that seemed nothing so much as guilty. "I'm... really sorry, all right?" As if any of this was his fault somehow. Like he could have changed it. Everything after that came out maybe a little too quickly, his eyes turned away. "There isn't going to be a school for you to go back to. I mean, that mansion I'm guessing you went to school in? It's probably there, yeah, but there probably aren't any teachers or students and, even if there are, they aren't going to be like us because I'm pretty sure the only mutants in the wider world here are just people who showed up in Red Oak and didn't have any good reason to stick around." He shifted her books to one arm, rubbing a free knuckle at his nose. "I guess there's plenty of reason to stick around now, though. Definitely enough for me."