It happened on the 4th day of middle school. From my fourth period class, I went to the orchestra room to drop off my binder for my next class after lunch. “Oh boy, it’s time to eat lunch, I’m famished!” I went to my locker, opened my lock and grabbed my lunch. Grabbing my brown paper sack, I headed towards the lunchroom.

I met my friend Tim who was one of my best friends. We both tried to look for a seat in the lunchroom of Eckstein Middle School. It was hard to find a seat, either they were full or they were sticky. Running our hands on the table, we could feel the stickiness of the table that our hands were almost stuck to. “I don’t think we will be able to find a table that’s not sticky,” I thought in my head. We looked for a long time until we finally found a seat in the very far left corner of the lunchroom.

Just before I sunk my teeth into my delicious looking croissant sandwich, a boy that I recognized from my elementary school came to us and told us that the table we were sitting at was the detention table, not a lunch table. “That explains why there wasn’t anyone sitting at this table”. Now that there was nowhere to eat in the lunchroom, the only place we could eat our lunch was the game room. Since we never went to the game room before, we thought we would go there to eat our lunch.

We stood up and went out of the cafeteria door and headed towards the game room. We passed the garden as we were on our way to our destination. The game room was located in P-10 that was outside of the lunchroom it is easy to spot because; there are colorful flags around the edges of the room. It was a great place to eat. Tables were clean and there were lots of games to play!

There were over 20 kids playing games. There were checkers, UNO, battleship and plenty of other games. They even had ping-pong and table soccer, too. Both of us found a perfect spot to eat lunch! The game room was a perfect place to eat if you didn’t want to eat in the lunchroom. More importantly, there wasn’t a wrong table in the room.

-Written by a current 6th grade student