Peacock Murder Mystery

Date: 11/26/2021

I was living in a house with 3 roommates and there was a pool in the backyard. 2 of the roommates decided to leave to run errands and then it was just me and Emily alone. We decided to take a dip in the pool since we couldn’t think of anything better to do. We were hanging out and suddenly noticed that a peacock wander into the yard. Emily immediately went to grab her phone to take a picture and I turned to the yard door to see how it got in and saw a guy. He was cute and Emily invited him in to swim with them. He was nice but I could tell he was hitting it off with Emily and decided to swim laps to give them some space to talk. Eventually I got tired and came up to talk to them. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it but something seemed a little off about the guy. I decided to excuse myself and got out to go in the house. As I was drying off, I noticed a peacock feather behind a bush and went to take a closer look. As I got closer I noticed a pool of blood and saw that there was a whole peacock that was dead. I looked down the narrow strip leading to the door and noticed a dead peacock behind each of the 5 bushes. I walked up to the door and the the peacock from before acknowledge me before turning around and walking away. I yelled “Emily!” as I turned back and she looked up asking me what was wrong. I told her what I saw and said WTF and we decided to cut our swim short to figure out what to do about the 6 large dead birds in our yard. The guy got out to leave and smiled goodbye but it felt almost in genuine. Inside, I tried insinuating that the guy seemed a little off to me but Emily brushed it off as she liked him. Later that night after everyone had gone to bed I came down to get some water and then knocked on Emily’s door to apologize for earlier. I got no response. I cracked the door open and found her laying there. She was in a pool of her own blood and in the stab wound laid a single peacock feather. I started hyperventilating and as I turned to go call 911, I felt a sharp pain in my abdomen. I looked down to find a knife with a peacock feather attached in my abdomen and the person holding the knife was the guy from before with a maniacal smile on his face. I decided to play dead and slowly fell to the ground as I couldn’t think of a better idea. I laid there breathing as shallow as possible until I heard his footsteps retreat. I then found it in myself to drag myself out to the living room and call 911. When the paramedics finally arrived they put both me and Emily on stretchers and loaded us into ambulances. Right before the ambulance door closed, I noticed the tail end of a peacock crossing the street leaving my line of vision.