Have you ever thought about what happens to your body when you do not eat breakfast? Probably not, we’ve all heard our parents and health teachers tell us over and over again that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but, if you are like me when you heard this you thought, “yeah, okay,”but never really stopped to think about it.  A lot of people do not eat breakfast in the morning because they don't have enough time or simply do not have an appetite first thing in the morning. There are many reasons it is important to eat breakfast; it can stop the embarrassingly loud stomach rumbles, and it also helps students have more energy, and do better in school. Breakfast is the key to starting up your metabolism for the day. If you often skip breakfast like I used to be you need to start eating a healthy breakfast or there is a good possibility of you having a similar embarrassing accident like mine .

It is second period, I am in English I with Ms. Mountain, she was young and passionate about teaching English I class to freshmen. Her classroom was decorated with mustaches and family photos. Fairy lights were placed on the whiteboard, making the room more inviting on a cold rainy morning.                                 

I knew this moment was going to come. The moment that is going to come is my stomach was going to growl. There was nothing I could think to do. But wait, maybe if I eat some food really quickly it will make it go away?
“I need food!”  I mouthed to Natalie,  who is sitting across the room from me. She is barely five foot tall and has short light brown hair that she managed to make look stylish everyday with different hair do’s and an amazing sense of humor. She makes the what?! face.  I pull out my phone, which I know I am not supposed to do because if Ms.  Mountain catches me she will take my phone. I turn the brightness all the way down and hide my phone in front of the Chromebook. The classroom is dead silent except for the tapping of the keys because the other kids are using their chromebooks for what they are supposed to be used for, writing their stories, not hiding their phones. I text her and ask her if she will bring me food but she replies and says she already ate her food. “Shoot!” I think. I know my stomach is going to rumble so loud  because I didn't eat breakfast and I just came from P.E.. I was in such a hurry this morning to catch the bus I didn't have time to grab some food.
My stomach is going to rumble any second if  I don't eat something so I get up and ask Ms.  Mountain if I can use the restroom (so I can hide in there until my stomach stops rumbling so no one else would hear it)  and she says I have to wait until Lanae gets back with the pass.

“Are you kidding me!?” I think . So I’m sitting there waiting, impatiently tapping my foot and finally after 5 minutes, which felt like forever, Lanae came back with the pass. I hop and grab the pass think okay I’m  safe but NO.

I was like two feet from the door and my stomach let out the loudest rumble ever! Now it was like ten times as awkward because I was in front of the whole class and everyone looked up and saw me standing there and knew it was me! So, I hurried out the door and acted like it wasn't me and went in the bathroom and  waited until my cheeks which had turned bright red, returned to normal.

When I walked back into the classroom I tried to act normal instead of acting like I wanted to hide, when I opened the door everyone looked up at me and I could feel my cheeks turn red again!

Natalie looks up at me and smirks. “Lol” she texts me, “I’m pretty sure the whole class heard your stomach rumble.”

I had thirty-five more minutes of English left, and I was counting them down: I couldn't wait to get out of there! Thirty-five terribly long minutes later the bell rang. I hopped out of my seat and thought, there is no way I am going to skip breakfast for the rest of the school year. Getting fifteen extra minutes of sleep instead of breakfast was not worth the embarrassment!

Everyone has had a moment in their life where there stomach had growled, it's a sign! Your body needs food and nourishment. Breakfast is important because it gives the body energy for the day. That energy is needed to do well on a test, run a mile, and to stay awake during class. Are you going to skip breakfast tomorrow and chance an embarrassing situation like I did? I hope not. Just remember next time you're about to skip breakfast the consequences of it.