High School Boys' 'Meat' and 'Rod'

"You betrayed me!"

I was just getting ready to head home when
from the back of the room
I heard a boy's angry voice.

"Because you betrayed me,
I ended up looking like a weirdo!"

I didn't really know what was going on, but
it sounded interesting, so
I pretended to rummage through my bag and eavesdropped.

It seemed to be about the
yearbook published that year.

Do you remember if you had
yearbooks back when you were
in school?

It's like an anthology that everyone in the grade
puts together,

and every year, each class has to create
one page
for the class page section.

For example, some classes filled theirs with caricatures of classmates,
or wrote messages like a group autograph board;
each class had its own personality.

So, that year in my class,
we decided that everyone would write
one kanji character they liked.

The plan was to arrange those characters in attendance order
to make our page,
which was our class page.

Apparently, the boy who was angry had written
"Meat"and the boy with the next attendance number,
the one currently being yelled at,

"Rod"was supposed to write that, so

they were trying to create "Meat Rod"
on the class page.

However, the boy in the back
didn't write "Rod".

So the angry boy
ended up looking like just someone who likes "meat".

It's silly, but
I like that idea.

By the way, the boy being yelled at

"I wasn't going to do that, obviously (lol)"

is what he said.
I thought that was fair enough.

Well, this story is already in the past, but
to the boy who was angry,
I have two things I want to say.

One.
You're quite the joker,
so everyone thinks it wouldn't be strange
for you to just write 'meat'.

Two.
No matter how serious and honor-student-like you are,
you know what a 'meat stick' is.
If you don't watch your volume,
you'll end up as fodder for a note post.

On this account,
I, a serious woman, will keep dropping
dirty jokes and lewd stories that I can't say out in public.

To you, living your life protected by a shell,
look at me and cheer up.