The Chance As we walked into the woods our mind went to a peaceful mood. But we could see the faint light from the sun squeezed through the cracks of the leaves above. I had different emotions in my head like I got to be quiet walking in here so I don’t scare anything away. But the one October day changed my life. As I was sleeping with my fan blowing cool air on me, my dad came in and awoken me. “Matt, Matt wake up.” said Dad. He suddenly flicked on the lights. “Ah Dad come on turn off the lights!” I said as I was blinded by the light. I turned off my radio and sat there deciding whether or not to get up. As I walked out to get ready, my mom was up making breakfast. “What’s for breakfast?” “Egg sandwiches and bacon your favorite.” answered my mom. As I shoved down my favorite breakfast, my dad yelled from his room. “Matt let’s go.” So I quickly finished my plate and I threw into the dishwasher and I was off for the door. I couldn’t see a thing walking out to the garage. I tried finding my boots but my dad already had them in his hand. I hurried to get my boots on and when I got into the truck I could barely breathe. “Where are we going to hunt at dad?” I asked. But as usual my dad answered back. “I don’t know Matt it’s totally up to you.” “But dad you know where the deer are and I don’t.” I answered back. Dad groaned “I don’t know Matt probably at your Uncle Tim’s house down the road.” I loved hunting at his place because it’s so open and there have been huge deer there this year. “OK…” I answered back in my smooth voice. We pulled up to Tim’s house and he was outside feeding the chickens. “Morning Tim.” Dad said. “Morning boys, are you boys going to hunt here this morning?” We both nodded our heads. Then dad began to talk. “Have you been seeing anything lately?” Tim thought for a good 5 minutes. Then he said in his aha voice “Yea, there’s been a nice wide 12 walking around say if you shoot that son of a gun give me a holler.” “OK we got to get a move on before sunrise so we’ll talk to ya later.” Dad said. As we drove away I asked “Dad wouldn’t that be something if we shoot that there 12 pointer and bring it home to ma in Dallas?” “Yeah, but we got to see it first before we can bring it home.” Dad said. We drove farther down the lane till we came to a dead end. We got out and I loaded my gun while my dad sprayed me down with secant killer. We then walked quietly down to our buddy stand about a half a mile away from the truck. I climbed up first the rattle of the stairs startled me a little so it made me shake more. Then my dad came up like a spider monkey because I couldn’t even here him. And within a few minutes my dad was out with his iPod in his hand. I was thinking to myself “God I will be screwed if that 12 pointer walked out cause my dad is sleeping.” But it was insane how fast everything in the timber started moving. When the sun just started to peak up I saw a doe and a decent 8 pointer chasing her. After that I knew it was going to be a good day. Then 20 to 30 minutes after those deer came I saw it. I didn’t see his whole body but by god those antlers were coming right at me. I tried to wake up dad but he was in a deep sleep. I thought to myself again “Wow I’m going to kill this deer all by myself.” All of a sudden I had the perfect shot. When he put his head down to sniff out the doe I pulled my gun up. I clicked the safety off and I took my deep breathes and pulled the trigger. BANG! There was smoke everywhere and my dad woke up panting “Matt WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?” I pointed with mile wide smile at the dead 12 pointer on the ground. We both started yelling and talking about what great job I did. We went up to Tim’s house and told him about the buck and he just gave me a big old slap on the back. Tim, Dad, and I drove back down to the buddy stand and we gutted it. We tossed that son of a gun into the trunk and we drove home to ma. When we arrived home mom was already waiting for us at the end of the drive. She looked happier than a bee in a honey jar. Now every time I go down stairs I have a mile wide smile on my face cause I took the first chance I got.