[Her feet stop swinging for a moment, and if he glances down, he'll see her smile fix to her face for a moment. Hm. Treat him like a baby duck, right...?]

Some stuff happened! [she says after a beat too long of a pause, after her feet start swinging again.] So I can't do my third year there. It's okay, though. You've met Ken-kun, right? He's from my future, kind of, so he's told me about what all my friends have been up to after I was gone.