"Okay!" Julia grinned, and then blinked a little when Kitty hugged her. She supposed that was what friends did, but nobody in her family hugged so she'd never been a hugger either.

She gave Kitty's back a friendly pat pat, "I'm going to come back with you, I think. I've got sort of turned around up here."

i.e. lost, but there was no need to state it so bluntly.