ChallengeDonate

CASE FILE ARCHIVE — COMMUNITY DIVISION

CheckMates Confessions

Everyone has a case they've never opened. This is where you finally do.

Submitted by the CheckMates community, reviewed before it's filed. You decide the sentence. That's what you're here for.

FILE A CONFESSION

Every case is reviewed before it's opened to the public. Confess anonymously, or go on record if you want your name in the file. Either way, Check Edgar's moderators see it first.

OPEN CASES
CASE FILEANONYMOUS

My Twin Brother's Girlfriend and I have kissed more than once, and He has no Idea.

 OPEN FULL CASE FILE

Hi Edgar, thank you for the platform to share my story. So here is the whole truth. Ever since I was a child with my brother, people have always treated us like we are the same thing just because we are twins. I like the things he likes, and he likes the things I like as well. Now I caught myself recently liking his woman, I know I shouldn't, but I can't help it. She cooks for us, plays with us, and she sometimes calls me her baby. So it started almost by accident. The three of us are always together, and I connected more with her than she has connected with him. They are always arguing, and she has found me as her safe haven to share her problems. Now I must confess, we have been secretly kissing and making out. And I am not proud of it because I know I am hurting my twin brother, but I can't stop it. The first time it happened, we were washing plates in the kitchen after breakfast while my brother was in the sitting room. I don't even know who made the first move, but after the kiss, we told ourselves it was a mistake and would never happen again. It happened two days after. We went to her house, and then she begged me to enter her room to pick something from the top of the wardrobe. I had a feeling she wanted something else, but I don't know why I still went there. We kissed again, and then three times since. My brother has no idea, and honestly, that is the part that sits heaviest with me. Not the kissing itself, but the ease with which we have both continued acting completely normal around him afterward. She is a serious pretender, and I can imagine the number of guys she is doing this with. My brother would run mad if he finds out she is a cheat, because he likes her. She still calls him her person and her baby. Sadly, she calls me that too. I do not know what to do. She doesn't want to date me, but she says she wants me and prefers me to my brother. She also doesn't want to leave him. What do I do?

Filed by BreezeTheTwin · Reviewed & opened 19 Sept 2026

THE VERDICT
Should he come clean to his twin brother, or keep quiet since she refuses to leave anyway?
38 VERDICTS CASTCASE STATUS: OPEN
Been there:1Oof:3Respect:4Not okay:2Comments:18
OPEN FULL CASE FILE
CASE FILEANONYMOUS

I have been living a double life with my Landlord

I have been living a double life with my landlord.
 OPEN FULL CASE FILE

My landlord thinks I am a banker. I am not a banker. I work in a shop that sells phone accessories on the Island, and honestly, on a good month, what I make does not even reach what he charges for rent. When I went to view the apartment two years ago, I panicked when he asked what I do, and "banker" just jumped out of my mouth. I do not even know why. Since then, I have been keeping up the act. Any time I am going to pay rent, I will wear shirt and trouser, even though I am literally coming straight from my shop. Whenever he asks how business is going, I just tell him "God is on the throne" Last December, the man tried to get financial advice from me about treasury bills. I gave him advice I heard on radio. He thanked me, said I explained it better than his actual banker friend. At this point, I have realized the lie has become too much to handle. If I tell him the truth now, he might think I have been struggling all along and start worrying about rent or even ask me to leave his house because I lied. So the banker will just keep living. The problem is, the lie has started to have children of its own. Two weeks ago, my landlord's daughter finished her master's programme somewhere in the east, and he told me she is looking for internship at a bank before she starts full time work. He asked if I could "put in a word" for her at my place of work. I said "let me see what I can do," like a serious professional, and he thanked me like the matter was as good as settled. I have spent every day since then avoiding his calls, drafting excuses in my head, to be honest, I don't even know what to say. Meanwhile the only recruitment happening at my shop is when my oga needs someone to go and buy him lunch. Then last month, he started sending me screenshots. Real screenshots, from his banking app, asking me why one particular transaction is showing as "pending" for three days. I stared at that message for almost one hour before I typed back something about "clearing cycles" and "interbank settlement windows," thank God for ChatGPT. He replied, "ehen, that makes sense now, thank you oh." I nearly dropped my phone. The final straw is that he has now started introducing me to people. Just last Sunday after church, he called me over to meet his brother-in-law, a man in genuinely big agbada, and said "this is the young man I was telling you about, he works with the banks." The brother-in-law's face changed immediately; respect just entered his eyes. He started asking me about mortgage rates. I said the rates "fluctuate depending on the CBN's current stance," nodded like I had said something serious, and excused myself to go and "take a call." So now it is not just my landlord I am managing. It is his daughter's imaginary internship, his transaction screenshots, and his extended family's financial questions. The shop where I actually work has no idea any of this is happening. If my oga ever hears that people think I work in a bank, he will laugh at me first, then dock my pay for wasting time answering rent house questions instead of attending to customers. Sometimes I lie awake and think, maybe I should just tell him the truth. Then I remember the daughter is expecting a phone call about her "internship" any day now, and I go back to sleep pretending I did not think of anything.

Filed by Walextheguru · Reviewed & opened 17 Sept 2026

THE VERDICT
Should he (the Banker) confess to his landlord, or is this lie too deep to come out of now?
17 VERDICTS CASTCASE STATUS: OPEN
Oof:1Comments:8
OPEN FULL CASE FILE